In several commonly used shell commands can be shortened with convenient alias, a classic example is:
alias ll='ls -al'
Also in this field zsh has some interesting features, which enable you to define traditional aliases but also things a bit more particular.
As someone posted in a comment of one of my former article (nohup, bg e disown), i’ve forget a command: setsid, while talking about the possibility of detach a process from a terminal or a shell
man setsid
setsid - run a program in a new session
The main difference i see from nohup is that you “lost” your standard output, but for some programs this could be normal or acceptable.
Basic usage:
For example run a script called ~/src/compile.all on a remote machine:
ssh your.remote-box.com
setsid ~/src/compile.all
logoff (or < ctrl > D)
it’s also possible to pass arguments with setsid command:
setsid /usr/bin/totem '/path/to/my/file.avi'
A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. Logically, MAC addresses are used in the Media Access Control protocol sub-layer of the OSI reference model.
MAC addresses are most often assigned by the manufacturer of a network interface card (NIC) and are stored in its hardware, the card’s read-only memory, or some other firmware mechanism. If assigned by the manufacturer, a MAC address usually encodes the manufacturer’s registered identification number. It may also be known as an Ethernet hardware address (EHA), hardware address, adapter address, or physical address.
Small follow up of my former article on iproute2, in this article we’ll see some use of the command ss to know more information about Linux TCP / UDP Network and Socket Information
ss command is included in iproute2 package and is the substitute of the command netstat.
ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state informations than other tools.
i’m glad and honored that one of my former article has inspired a programmer to realize a new graphical interface for an existing program.
webcam-server-dialog it’s a basic front-end to webcam-server.
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