Category: Linux

Wget can be used to download multiple files with just one command wget -c “http://example.com/file[1-9].htm” [tags]wget,download,multiple,series,linux,command,cli[/tags]

This command can be used to create an image of a CD/DVD/HDD. You can also use some GUI tool like…

Get just the first line of the output of a command… <command>|head -n1 ls -1|head -n1

Get just the file title without the extension in a variable. file_name=1 file_title=`echo1|sed ‘s/\..\{3\}$//’`

The command to convert all \n in a file to another string – very useful for list code generation. perl…

This command will list all the files a folder without their extensions. Comes handy when doing shell scripting perl -e…

I once got a DAA file from a P2P network. Initally I was at a lose about how to extract…

Use find and grep to search for a specific text in a directory. In this example, we search for files…

Cache all your Debain installation DVD/CDs Put the first DVD in the drive and run this command apt-cdrom add Do…

Simple uses for awk Get the second column from the output ps aux | awk ‘{print $2}’ Use a different…