Category: Command Line

Force delete a file rm -f file

View in real time what is added to a file. -f stands for Follow tail -f /var/log/messages

Show network adpters and statistics cat /proc/net/dev

Creates a new from the given input file by assuming it is encoded in fromEncoding and converting it to toEncoding….

Batch resize files in the current directory and send them to a thumbnails directory (requires convert from Imagemagick) find ….

Linux command to show information about the CPU cat /proc/cpuinfo # Result (example) processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu…

Show files and directories in a tree tree

Search string “test_text” at directory ‘/var/log’ and below grep test_text -R /var/log/*

Remove comments and blank lines from example.pl sed ‘/ *#/d; /^$/d’ example.pl

Shows all mounted file systems in Linux cat /proc/mounts