Category: Linux

Converting a Video file mencoder -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts bitrate=878 -o destination.avi source.avi Original Article

Shows a small GUI dialog similar to alert with the specified message. xmessage ‘Hello’

RAR Support in Linux is easy – just install the unrar tool… sudo yum install unrar

See how long your machine has been running uptime Example Output 23:42:28 up 6:20, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.22,…

Installing the dependencies for HTML Validator extension for Firefox on linux. sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 tidy

Format a partition to Ext3 mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/sda10

Ever wonder how you can get a man page in into a format you can read and print? man command…

Random Noise in Linux – I cannot think of any practical use for this command. You can use it for…

Show the headers of an URL from the command line. This will need perl, lwp installed on the system. lwp-request…

Don’t show the untracked files in git status git status | perl -pe “exit if(/Untracked files\:/)”