Add files to dropbox with single curl command
2019/07/08
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 …
Running dnsmasq with NetworkManager in Fedora
2019/06/10
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
2019/06/03
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 …
libvirt- Create virtual machine with text console only interface
2019/05/27
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 …
IT Trends That Will Boost Global Economic Growth
2019/05/06
IT has been known to have a great impact on the global economy and has been linked to marketplace transformation, better standards of living, and international trade, among other things.
Fedora – dnsmasq with NetworkManager
2019/04/29
I have been thinking of writing about this for long time but someone else did and it is nice write-up so here is the link – https://fedoramagazine.org/using-the-networkmanagers-dnsmasq-plugin/
GREP_COLORS – change the colors in the GREP output.
2019/04/22
Today we will look at the variable GREP_COLORS. This variable determines the colour that is used with the grep command. You can look at the man page of the grep command to see what the various options …
How much money flows through IT
2019/04/15
Check out this amazing infographic […] Global IT Economics [Infographic]
copy /proc folder
2019/03/18
Other day, I was trying to copy the proc folder with following command: tar cvzf /tmp/proc.tgz /proc and I found out that all the files in tar were empty. Strange it may seem but lot of people are …
cool sed/grep magic to convert output to csv format
2019/03/11
I generallly keep doing this a lot, so thought will share with you. Lets assume we are capturing free ouput every min/hour/or whatever. The output looks like this: […] Time: Mon Jan 21 23:59:10 …
Gnome with i3 on Fedora 29
2019/02/25
I have been thinking of doing this for long time, finally I managed to get this working. Here is what you need to do to get i3 with all other gnome services running. First we will create 2 files, this …
bash function for rpm whatprovides
2018/12/31
Sometimes some simple one-liner function can save you a lot of time, like-