5 grep like commands

5 grep like commands

Everyone knows (and loves) grep, I’ve also wrote an article on it, but today we’ll see other small utility that have some things in common with it. In particular I’ll show you: pgrep, grepcidr, ngrep, pdfgrep and taggrepper. All are command line tools to be used with your favorite shell, I’ll show you some example for every command.

Yakito a multimedia converter

Yakito a multimedia converter

At the moment my favourite way to do (simple) elaborations and conversions of multimedia file is FFMPEG. But i understand that is not exactly the most user-friendly tool around, so if you don’t want to open the terminal and read the man page of FFMPEG perhaps you could take a look at Yakito. Yakito  is […]

Umplayer an alternative multimedia client

Umplayer an alternative multimedia client

While searching for some new software for my multimedia files I’ve found UMplayer. And after 1 days of use i must say that this could become one of my favorite software. Why ? It’s based on mplayer, so regarding audio and video you have the same feature of this software, BUT, there is also a […]

Introduction to Backtrack 5

Introduction to Backtrack 5

The 10 of may the backtrack team has released the version number 5 (codename “revolution”) of their penetration tool. Yes backtrack it’s a live Linux Distribution made with this goal, be the best penetration and learning tool around. It’s Based on Ubuntu Lucid LTS (10.04). Kernel 2.6.38, patched with all relevant wireless injection patches. Fully […]

Watch - Run a command forever on the terminal

Watch – Run a command forever on the terminal

Sometimes is useful to run over and over again the same command until something happen, for example you could do a ls -lrt until a file has reached a certain dimension or is created, how to do it ? Sure you can use bash history and use up arrow and return over and over again, […]