Tag: Linux

Sharing an Internet Connection from A Linux System using IPTables

To setup internet connection sharing in Linux system using IPTables Enable IP forwarding Run as root sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 To…

Installing MS Core Fonts on Linux(Fedora)

Download the MS Core Fonts Smart Package File wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec Make sure that the rpm-build and cabextract packages are installed:…

Yum Options

Using yum command usage: yum [options] < upgrade, install, update, info, search > Use the -y option to bypass the…

yum install

Stuff I had to install after doing a Fedora Core 6 Install from DVD Libraries qca-tls Multimedia mplayer vlc xine…

Backup Locally using Rsync

Backup a folder to another local folder using the rsync tool. rsync -av ~/Scripts/ /var/Backup/Rsync/Scripts/ a = Archive Mode v…

Recording Sound in Linux

To record a sound in wav format from Mic, just use this command… arecord -f cd test.wav Use Ctrl+C to…

Text to Speech – Hear a File

Festival is a speech synthesizer for Linux. You can use this with the following commands… Enter a festival console for…

List All Files in a Folder Recursively

Save the list of all files in a folder – recursively. find .|sed ‘s/\.\///;’ Another option is ls -R -1…

Download Entire Folder using Wget Command in Linux

wget -m http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO/ -m, –mirror shortcut for -N -r -l inf –no-remove-listing. wget -H -r –level=1 -k -p http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO/ -r,…

Change the Extension of Multiple Files in Linux

In this example, we will change all files with extension ‘.info’ to ‘.txt’. Rename all *.info files in one folder…