Or should i say: “grep -R doesn’t automatically search amazon” ? This is becoming the most popular bug on launchpad, and if you are an Ubuntu user perhaps you have already seen it, for all the others..this is an interesting “bug” on a feature request, this is the original text of the bug posted by […]
Download your favorite video with xVideoServiceThief
Sometimes I find a long and interesting video on youtube or vimeo about Linux events or presentations, documentaries or movies that I’d like to see in a second moment, maybe when I’m offline or from my TV that has an usb port but no wireless. There are dozen of extensions for Firefox and Chrome to […]
Linux shell, how to use the exec option in find with examples
In a former article I’ve wrote about the command locate, an useful command to find quickly a file in your computer. An alternative to locate is the command find : GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given file name by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules […]
How to properly use ‘dd’ on Linux to benchmark the write speed of your disk?
Original article published on http://romanrm.ru This article is written to address sometimes incorrect usage of the “dd” program to measure disk write performance on a VPS by some visitors of the lowendbox.com website, and is originally based on this question and my answer to it.
Parse options in your bash script with getopt
Today i was writing a bash script that should manage some input arguments, and so i studied getopt, this is a convenient and elegant way to manage input parameters in a bash script. With it you can define switch (present or not) or parameters with an option, thus making your simple bash script much more […]