A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This is a short post about how to duplicate or copy the EXIF information from one file to another using exiftool. The command comes handy when you have one image with EXIF information and you would like another image to have the exact EXIF information. exiftool -TagsFromFile CopyFromFile.NEF ToFile.JPG This works in both Windows and […]
Installing the 64 bit VMware Workstation 7.1.1 on Ubuntu # ./VMware-Workstation-Full-7.1.1-282343.x86_64.bundle When you try to start VMware Workstation for the first time you will get the following error message You have to read the log file to get the details why VMware would not start, in my case it is named /tmp/vmware-root/setup-24056.log Oct 02 00:10:54.570: […]
This is a simple bash script to create random filenames of all jpg-files (*.jpg) in a folder using the linux commands mv, sha1sum and cut. #!/bin/bash # Randomize filenames for fname in *.jpg; do mv “$fname” $(echo “$fname” | \ sha1sum | \ cut -f1 -d ‘ ‘ | \ cut -b 1-5).jpg done The […]
This command shows the result of a mount command in a nice table layout # mount | column -t Result /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw)
# ssh user@example.com cat /path/to/remotefile | diff /path/to/localfile –