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- Android how to read and write files
- Uncompress on the fly when copying a file from a remove location with scp
- Setting up an encrypted volume on an external hard drive on CentOS
- Linux bash – tar tricks
- Implement Selenium tests
- Using a downloaded package without IDE in Java
- CSS selectors optimisation
- Ubuntu Linux on Acer Aspire AO751h
Category Archives: Linux
Uncompress on the fly when copying a file from a remove location with scp
Don’t use scp, do it with ssh: ssh backups@server “cat /home/backups/backup_2010-09-27.tar.gz”| tar zxvf – You can probably use something similar also for: Compress on the fly when copying a file from a remove location with scp
Setting up an encrypted volume on an external hard drive on CentOS
Make sure the version of your kernel is 2.6.16 or later with support for device mappers. Please replace XXXXX with the device Linux allocates the driver to (i.e.: /dev/sdc1). Use the dmesg command to find that out. Preparing the volume … Continue reading
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Linux bash – tar tricks
Change directory: tar xzvf /var/backups/dbserver/dbserver-backup*.tar.gz -C /var/backups/dbserver Specifing the destination file: tar –create -zvPh -f /tmp/backup.tar.gz /usr/local/bin /usr/local /etc/var/spool/cron /var/svn /home/*/.ssh /home/*/.bash*
Ubuntu Linux on Acer Aspire AO751h
Don’t use the Ubuntu Netbook Remix but the Desktop version. To fix the monitor resolution: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/ Wi-fi should work out of the box
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Linux command Line – copy a file from remote to local
Copy a file from a remote location to a local directory (for example to burn a backup on DVD): scp backups@server1:backup20100105 local/path
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PHP function to get the most recurrent words in a file – it uses Linux command line
/** * Extracts the most recurrent one-word and two-word terms in a file * Filters out some common stop words and you can also pass extra ones * * @param string $filepath * @param int $minWordLength – the minimal word … Continue reading
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Install KAlarm on Gnome
You have to install kdepim: _ yum install kdepim (on RedHat and CentOS) _ apt-get install kdepim (on Debiam/Ubuntu) By doing that you can use KAlarm (that actually is a KDE program)
How to Download Movies & Files on Linux
_ Find the torrent with http://www.mininova.org/ or search on Google “Gladiator download torrent” _ Use Transmission to download the torrent _ opersubtitles.org
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how to install flash in Firefox for CentOS
* Go to youtube.com and try to play a video. You should not be able to play it * Instead of the video, there should be a link like ‘Install Flash’ * You should be redirected to the Adobe website … Continue reading
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Linux Bash: Append and Prepend Strings to Files
I want to append the string “BYE” to the file test.txt echo “BYE” >> test.txt Now, I want to prepend the string “HI” to the file test.txt echo “HI”|cat – test.txt > /tmp/out && mv /tmp/out test.txt
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