Category: Linux

Removes all exe files in the current directory tree. Useful to clear virus from flash drives. find . -name “*.exe”…

View first two lines of a file head -2 file tail -2 file # for last 2 lines

Repair / check integrity of linux filesystem on disk hda1 fsck /dev/hda1

View only lines that contain the word “string” sed -n ‘/string/p’

Start a download at any given time echo ‘wget -c www.example.com/files.iso’ | at 09:00

Update the package list – do this after you change the source in /etc/apt/sources.list . apt-get update

Get the version of the kernal cat /proc/version OR uname -r

Show hardware system components – (SMBIOS / DMI) dmidecode -q

Check bad blocks in disk hda1 badblocks -v /dev/hda1

If you are getting a ‘Can’t locate CPAN.pm in @INC’ error while opening cpan, you have not installed Bundle::Cpan. You…