Hi Eli, some nitpicks.
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:01:51 +0200 Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > On Monday, January 21st at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by > Eli Billauer: > > Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks > > Abstract > > Command-line utilities is the real power of a Linux computer, and yet > there's always a few useful utilities that even an experienced Linux > user doesn't know about. This meeting is dedicated to going through > several random utilities, some of which are less known, others are known > but have surprising possibilities. > > The range goes from things as simple as using "touch" to fake a > modification date to using ssh for surfing the web (with your browser) > as if your computer was in another country. > > No previous knowledge is required. Even though newbies will gain the > most of this meeting, there is also room for those more familiar with > the shell prompt. Those who want to take the stand for a few minutes to > talk about a utility are welcome, of course. > > There will be no slides during this meetings, just a shell window for > demonstrations. > > This is a list of topics that may or may not be covered, depending on > interest and what time allows. Some will be mentioned in a few words, > and we may spend some time with others. > > * find that file with complex criteria and output formatting: find > * Run a quick script: perl -e and perl -pi -e > * Resize (or create) a file: truncate > * Fake a file's modification time: touch > * Quick binary dump: hexdump -C > * What's in that executable? ldd / objdump (disassembly) > * Create a custom timestamp: date (with formatting) > * Fetch that file from www: wget > * Internet plumbing: nc / redirecting to /dev/tcp > * Using ssh for port forwaring (fake your world position) > * Check that you're not running out of inodes: du -i You probably mean "df -i" instead of "du -i". > * Check up your processes: ps aux / pstree > * Who's opening which files? lsof / strace > * What ports are open? netstat -a -n > * Munching a lot of text: cat / tac/ head / tail -f / sort / sort -n > (together with du -s) > * What's that file? file / identify / stat + perl's stat > * Mounting an file image: fdisk -fu / mount -o loop > * Convert PS to PDF: ps2pdf > * pulseaudio utils: pulseaudio -k / -D + pacmd > * Zenity: Plain GUI from the command line > * Restore screen settings (set by mplayer): xvattr > * Open a GUI explorer on the current directory: nautilus On KDE the "konqueror", "dolphin", and "kfmclient" commands are also useful for it. XFCE has Thunar for that (but I don't like it). > * View images on the current directory: gthumb > There's also "gwenview" (which is a KDE app), which starts kinda slowly, and fotoxx is also nice - http://www.kornelix.com/fotoxx.html . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ To err is human; to apologise — divine. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
