Category: Linux

Create a command that will return the pid of the given command string.. #!/bin/sh ps aux|grep 1|head -n1|awk ‘{print2}’

A Linux command to sort the contests of a file sort file.ext [tags][/tags]

I run these commands when I am off for lunch or something… sudo /bin/bash /usr/sbin/makewhatis -w sudo /usr/bin/updatedb #These two…

To access net on a guest OS installed within VirtualBox, you have to enable bridging. This is what I did……

A perl script to stop crond if mysqld is down #!/usr/bin/perl # See if MySQL server is alive or not…

Find the contents of a file using this commande file filename.txt

Recursively list all files in the current folder and all the sub folders ls -R ls -R1

Use this command to find the MD5 of a file. md5sum file.txt

Fish shell has an easy method to create a command alias… alias del=’rm’ save_function del

You can connect to a remote mysql server if you have the necessary permissions… mysql -h mysql.remote.com -u user