Windows 10 allows you the flexibility to run Linux commands in Windows 10. For doing that, you need to have the Linux Bash Shell enabled in Windows 10. In this article, we will explain to you the method through which you can enable Linux Bash Shell in Windows 10. How to use Linux Bash Shell ... Read more
JPEG is a lossy compression file format for digital images. It can greatly reduce the space used by a graphics file in comparison to the PNG format. This tutorial describes how to convert a PNG file to JPG on the shell. I will use the command line tool GraphicsMagick for this on my Ubuntu 18.04 system, ... Read more
Examples on how to add Linux users to groups with simple shell commands for CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu.
Sometimes you might want to download an entire website e.g. to archive it or read it offline. This tutorial will show you which application can be used on Windows and Linux.
The bash history is a log file that contains all commands that the user executed on the Linux shell. When you use the "arrow up" key on our keyboard, then Bash will look up the previous command from that file and display it on the screen, ready to be executed again.
The Linux VNC server provides a command to set a new password. The command is "vncpasswd", the password is stored in encrypted form into the file ~/.vnc/passwd of the home directory of te user. Run: vncpasswd to set a new password for the currently logged in user. The command will then prompt for the new ... Read more
Here is a short script that helped me to copy files that have ben modified within the last 60 minutes to a new directory. The script uses a combination of the find and cp commands, it has to be run inside the directory that contains the new files. In this example, I will copy all ... Read more
Look here to learn how to create Visual Basic Scripts. Using Visual Basic Script you can also access elementary Windows services, some them being really useful to irritate your friends. If at any point of the script there is an error stating that the double-quotes used in it are invalid characters, just delete the copied ... Read more
If you have a directory with many files (a few thousand in my case) and need to know which one is the newest, then the following command might be useful. It returns the name and details of the newest file in a directory where it is executed: ls -tl | sed -n 2p
Linux user quotas can be edited with the commands edquota or setquota on the shell. While edquota opens the quota settings in a editor like vim, setquota allows you to specify the quota settings on the commandline. Example for disabling the quota for the user "testuser": setquota -u testuser 0 0 0 0 -a Example ... Read more
