Lot of times, you have to ssh to a server with bastion host. If you dont know what is bastion host then see this:
Now, in such cases, either you add an entry in “~/.ssh/config” to route the ssh through the bastion host or do ssh to bastion host and then ssh from there to the actual host. But wait, there is always a better way:
Continue readingSometime back I posted about terminal.sexy – make your teminal sexy. I personally use URxvt terminal and hence need the xrdb files to apply the theme. It’s pain to go to the website everytime I want to change my theme and hence I wrote a python script that can use the github repo and convert the files to xrdb files. Here is the link to the script:
terminal.sexy script for xrdb
Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal and Pantheon Terminal – here is the github page
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 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
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
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.
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