View xml files like a pro

Viewing XML files can be daunting with tracking mentally where the tag starts and where it ends. So, I ended up with the following alias to help me view xml files

xmllint --format - | pygmentize -f 16m -O style=native -g

terminal.sexy – make your teminal sexy

terminal.sexy is a nice webpage that allows you to select the colors for your terminal and then you can export it in various formats.

Main site : http://terminal.sexy

and for the source code: Github URL

Check your session type – wayland or X11

With both wayland and X11 in mainstream, its pretty easy to forget if you are running in Wayland or in X11. To check this here are the commands:

loginctl list-sessions
# The above command will show you all the sessions. Note the session number for your session

loginctl show-session <session number> -p Type

Add files to dropbox with single curl command

I have been thinking of posting this for sometime now. This is very useful, when you are working on a different Linux box and want to upload a file to dropbox.

So, before you run this command, you need to create your auth token in Dropbox developer API page. Once that is done, need to change the 2 parameters in command below. Export your Access token and run the below command.

Running dnsmasq with NetworkManager in Fedora

Here is a good link to do this:

https://fedoramagazine.org/using-the-networkmanagers-dnsmasq-plugin/

Split pcap to multiple files based on number of packets

Here is a script that can use tshark to split a large pcap to multiple small pcaps

inpcap="test.pcap"

max=$(tshark  -r $inpcap -n -T fields -e frame.number|tail -1)

# This is the number of packets in each split pcap
c=1

# Save all new pcaps to out, if it does not exist, create it.
[[ ! -d out ]] && mkdir out

for i in $(seq 1 $max $c)
do
        tshark  -r $inpcap  -n -c $c "frame.number==$i" -w out/$i.pcap
        #Do other stuff, if required
        read -p "Send the next packet? "
done

A very simple 3-4 line script that has saved my day so may times.

libvirt- Create virtual machine with text console only interface

virt-install is an amazing tool to create VMs. If you have created a config file (Kickstart file – ks.cfg), then its only one line un-attended install. If you are using this on remote host with ssh and unluckily cannot export display – what do you do. Do a non-graphical install. There are only minor changes in the command to tell the installer that there is no graphics available and it is amazing, is it not 🙂