A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This is a little oneliner to rename a files suffix from/to uppercase/lowercase. Rename a jpg suffix to JPG in the current folder # find -name “*.jpg” | while read a; do mv “$a” “${a%%.jpg}.JPG” ; done The work JPG can be replaced by any other word :)
More and more people are getting dual-layer DVD-burners and don’t want to compromise quality by shrinking the movie down to DVD-5 (singel-layer) copies. This howto will show you how to make a 1:1 (unshrinked and unencrypted) ISO-image of an encrypted DVD-9 movie in linux using the commandline. Prerequisites (these are likeley available in your distros […]
This is a simple oneliner to rename files to lower-case using perl # perl -e ‘rename($_, lc) || warn “$_: $!\n” for @ARGV’ * You can also do this recusively using find and perl # find . -type f -exec perl -e ‘rename($_, lc) || warn “$_: $!\n” for @ARGV’ {} \;
Here are some useful addresses I use to download ISO images quickly. They contain different Linux distributions like Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu etc… ftp://ftp.uio.no/linux/ISO-images/ ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/ Enjoy!
It is sometimes necessary to run two instances of mysql, like in my case. I need a mysql database in addition to the one Zimbra uses. One solution to this problem is to run the mysql database on a non default socket. This can be done by changing the following line in my.cnf my.cnf [client] […]