Original Article by Juan Valencia Although some file archivers offer us the option of split the files, this can be easily accomplished with two commands: split and cat. Splitting a file with split split just needs the size of the parts that we want to create, and the file that we want to split, e.g.: split -b 1024 file_to_split.binsplit […]
This is a small collection of commands that can give you information on a Linux computer. Most of this commands can be run as non-privileged user, but more information can be obtained if (and should be) run as root: General system information: # uname -a List all hardware lshw |less Alternative with Gtk frontend lshw-gtk
I was in need to mount some image from Nero, and so i discovered an useful small program: CDEmu. CDEmu is a CD/DVD-ROM device emulator for linux, licensed under GPL v2 or later. It is a from-scratch rewrite of the legacy CDEmu project, which was started by Robert Penz. And while i was searching for […]
In a former article I’ve talked about script, to record a shell session from a terminal and a comment contained “ttyrec > script” So what’s ttryrec ?
dd seem an unfriendly command, but if you start to use it, you’ll see that it’s a powerful command able to do many different things, backup a partition, CD or USB stick for example or do some simple tests on the speed of your disks or your CPU. The man page say: dd is an […]