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Check ports connectivity using automation with telnet and timeout commands. Timeout will help us not get blocked for a long time. Adjust the timeout value on case to case basis, # vi ~/check_my_server_hostname.sh timeout 2 bash -c “echo ‘exit’ |...
Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199863/create-many-files-with-random-content For example, Name size file1.01 2K file2.02 3K file3.03 5K etc. Strategy – 1 #! /bin/bash for n in {1..1000}; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=file$( printf %03d “$n” ).bin bs=1 count=$(( RANDOM + 1024 )) done ...
Setup sudo apt-get install ffmpeg brew install youtube-dl Command youtube-dl –extract-audio –audio-format mp3 -o “%(title)s.%(ext)s” <url to playlist> References https://askubuntu.com/questions/564567/how-to-download-playlist-from-youtube-dl Related posts: Compiling in $HOME Installing perl modules in non standard directory Bulk add remote host fingerprint in ~/.ssh/known_hosts...
In your search of a Linux terminal on Windows you might have stumbled across projects such as cmder and WSL. There are many more projects like those. Personally for me this was the only configuration (in this post) that ended...
You will find a few similarities with Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) and linuxbrew (http://linuxbrew.sh/). Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/) is a similar package manager for windows. Installation Installation command is a little weird than other OS. Inside an administrative command prompt, type below >”%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))” && SET “PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin”...
Source: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79056 Manual installation Go to “www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/” (full URL omitted to avoid moderation) Click on the HTTP download link for “Inetutils” Download “inetutils-1.9.4.tar.gz” Compile and Install tar zxvf inetutils-1.9.4.tar.gz cd inetutils-1.9.4 ./configure make sudo make install telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com Related posts:...
Lately, my Apple magic mouse went missing. After a quick research, I found a command that helped me check the signal strength of the bluetooth device. All I had to do was to initiate the command and start walking around...
Top 20 files by size Concatenate multiple files skipping n rows Compress last X days data in one archive Compress files older than X days individually Merging multiple lines Find latest files recursively Get rows starting and ending between a...
The below method will not start AMMPS without password, but instead does start mysql and apache web server if you have AMPPS installed already. There are 2 steps involved, 1. Modifying sudoers file, and 2. Creating a startup applescript application....
Source: https://www.winehq.org/announce/2.0 Enable Retina mode for Wine apps – The macOS graphics driver supports a high-resolution (“Retina”) rendering mode. It can be enabled by setting “RetinaMode” to “Y” under HKCU\Software\Wine\Mac Driver. Related posts: Changing Wine key mappings on Mac...
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