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NIC Card Configuration

Binny V A — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:19:44 +0000

Show configuration of an ethernet network card


ifconfig eth0

Fetch a URL With a Number Series

Binny V A — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:04:05 +0000

Use this command to download numbered content…


for ((i=1; i<9; i++)) ; do  wget "http://www.example.com/$i.txt" ; done

Zero Padding In Linux Commands

Binny V A — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:01:21 +0000

This is how you zero pad a numerical variable in bash.


for ((x=1;x< =31;x+=1)); do echo `printf "%02d" $x`; done

Original Article

Create ISO Image of a Folder

Binny V A — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:04:00 +0000

Create an iso image of a directory


mkisofs -J -allow-leading-dots -R -V "Label CD" -iso-level 4 -o ./cd.iso data_cd

Uncompressing a BZ2 File

Binny V A — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:59:08 +0000

Decompress a file called ‘file.bz2′


bunzip2 file.bz2

XMLStarlet

Binny V A — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:15:39 +0000

Using XMLStarlet...


 curl -s 'http://bashcurescancer.com/rss/' | xml sel -t -m '//link' -v '.' -n
http://bashcurescancer.com

http://bashcurescancer.com/processing-xml-on-the-command-line.html
http://bashcurescancer.com/do-not-close-stderr.html
http://bashcurescancer.com/prepend-to-a-file-with-sponge-from-moreutils.html
http://bashcurescancer.com/bug-in-curl-is-fixed.html
http://bashcurescancer.com/using-kill-to-see-if-a-process-is-alive.html
http://bashcurescancer.com/performance-testing-with-curl.html
http://bashcurescancer.com/new-command-prepend.html
...

My KMix Settings

Binny V A — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:21:27 +0000

This kmix setting will setup your microphone for recording. I got it thru trial and error - its not perfect…

Compare contents of two files

Binny V A — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:03:22 +0000

Compare contents of two files by deleting only unique lines from ‘file1′


comm -1 file1 file2

Uncompressed Tarball

Binny V A — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:27:13 +0000

Create a uncompressed tarball


tar -cvf archive.tar file

Text type convert

Binny V A — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:00:24 +0000

Convert a text file format from MSDOS to UNIX


dos2unix input_file output_file