The Command Line Rosetta Stone
A comparison for current operating systems inspired by the classic Unix Rosetta Stone
Archive of posts tagged linux
Rebuild nvidia modules for new kernel
sudo dkms autoinstall
Rooting your Gemini PDA
I recently got a Gemini PDA (WiFi). To run rooted Android and Linux (dual boot) I did the following: Followed the details here. Downloaded & unzipped Windows Flashing Tool Downloaded & installed Windows Drivers Chose my Partition setup here then downloaded Scatter File Base Firmware (ie Android) Linux Firmware Unzipped both firmwares into a dir …
Boot fedora non-graphically
Edit grub entry Add systemd.unit=multi-user.target From here
Negative lookahead assertion rule in procmail
Say in procmail you want a rule that puts subjects like: “Sale Alert: Howies” (or anything other than Howies) in your inbox but not “Sale Alert: Banana Republic” You can do this with a negative lookahead assertion like so: :0: * ^Subject: (You have sale alerts|Sale Alert):? *(?!Banana) $DEFAULT
Windows shares no longer mounting on Linux
I use autofs to mount a windows share on my router, this stopped working with “mount error(112): Host is down”. Looks like it was due to some arch linux update, as per dmesg: [ 5986.858242] No dialect specified on mount. Default has changed to a more secure dialect, SMB3 (vers=3.0), from CIFS (SMB1). To use …
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gnome-terminal failing to launch on arch after upgrade to Gnome 3.22
With “Error creating terminal: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying” Try: sudo pacman -R –nodeps –nodeps vte3-notification sudo pacman -S vte3
Command Line tools
Here are the tools I use to live my life on the command line: Mail Client: Mutt Filtering: procmail, imapfilter Search: mairix General Web Client: Lynx, Links, Elinks, w3m Tools: wget, aria2c, curl Web Services Toodledoo: toodledo (ruby gem) Misc search engines: Surfraw Google Calendar: gagenda Ebay: esniper BBC Iplayer: get_iplayer Google Drive: gdrive Google …
Check your shell history for passwords
Leaving passwords in your shell history is a security issue. I wrote a tool to help check: checkhistory. Feel free to send me pull requests / patches with additional regexes to match.
Prometheus
An open-source service monitoring system and time series database. via Prometheus.