A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This is my short script to rotate and rename image files accoring to date captured based on their EXIF info. You need jhead and exiv2 to run this. These two programs are also available in Windows and only require you to make small changes to work there as well. #!/bin/bash -x echo Rotating JPEG file(s) […]
This post describes short how to use rsnapshot as a remote filesystem snapshot utility, based on rsync that I use as my personal backup tool. I have started using rsnapshot after using rsync and rdiff-backup and lost files because of file corruption. rsnapshot is a great backup utility because it hardlinks files if they already […]
Simple bash script to rename AVCHD/MTS/MOV files to match their recording date and time. #!/bin/bash if [ -z “$1” ]; then echo “Usage: ./rename_video.sh FILETYPE” 1>&2 echo “Example: ./rename_video.sh *.MTS” 1>&2 exit 1 fi for x in “$@” do exiftool ‘-FileName<DateTimeOriginal’ -d %Y%m%d_%H%M_%%f.%%e “$x” done The resulting files will be named like YYYYMMDD_HHMM_BASENAME.ext ie 20120703_1635_05600.MTS […]
GNU ddrescue (gddrescue) is a linux data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (harddisc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. It can also be used as a forensic cloning tool. Installing gddrescue in Ubuntu linux # aptitude install gddrescue The command to […]
This post describes how you can download and install the latest version of VMware Tools to a linux guest from a ESXi 5.0 host. You need SSH access rights to a VMware host to follow this guide. Allow SSH access to the VMware host you are about to access. This can be done in the […]