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Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
echo you can shuffle up the words of a sentence by using xargs twice like this | xargs -n1 echo | shuf | xargs
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
whois dirtyfrag\.com | grep -E "(Country|State|Creation)"
Interesting domain registration I noticed last night while writing up an advisory.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
BTW in case you didn't notice, tomorrow at 1777777777 it's going to be 1777777777 epoch time.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Be careful when you search for PuTTY or recommend the PuTTY SSH client to people. You want to make sure you give them the correct address. Major search engines still give the wrong one. The putty dot org address was never official and now has been repurposed for anti-vax crap https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/puttyorg_website_controversy/
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Had the fortune of meeting Michael Elkins (left), the creator of the mutt email client, today while at the Information Sciences Institute.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
sudo su -
alias facts='timedatectl set-ntp'
facts false
timedatectl set-time "1984-01-15"
Set your system date to January 15, 1984, and not for the Mac commercial. Just run 'facts true' to return to reality.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
I made a podcast episode to welcome all the new Linux users to the community and invite them to participate in the community.
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4536/index.html
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Today someone asked me if I could open an Excel spreadsheet and I kinda chuckled at the question. But, it was a good reminder that even if the bar is low, it's not zero.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Is the post-mis-information age going to be any better?
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Bad UX design demonstrated in one form field.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
It's funny how humans complain about AI hallucinations when humans make shit up all the time.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Vim users: If you'd like to highlight the whole line the cursor is on:
:set cursorline
I just used that when examining package output from dpkg -l so that I could easily see which description matched each package.
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Being able to do stuff like this is what makes the command line pretty special:
ssh 192.168.0.15 'sudo dd if=/dev/sda bs=1M status=progress' > backup-old-drive.img
Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use. Here mostly to inspire all to try more. Read docs first, run later.
Remember to be a good user, or you might end up with /dev/null under the tree.
https://xkcd.com/838/
