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You need help ? Linux :
- How a book I got by begging, changed my life
- Encrypt a whole drive/directory with gpg.
The complete bundle including the shell script is here.- Decrypt a whole bunch of files.
The complete bundle including the shell script is here.- Preparing a new external drive, for use under Linux. This article explains the steps to be taken, to repair the irritating problem which many Linux users face regularly.
- Keep a secret : Use the good old vi editor to encrypt your files and carry them anywhere.
- Honey, I lost that file .... This article will show you a way, such that you will never have to put up a long, sad face and say "Honey, I lost that file ...sorry"
- A bash teaser : Explains a very important but tricky aspect of shells.
- A bash riddle And, the answer is here
- Cheksums, your best friends : How checksums can be used for enhancing security.
- Treasure hunt with find : The "find" utility is useful in many ways. Here is one way you can use it.
- FOSS tools for mathematics : When mathematicians need tools, they go shopping for FOSS tools like these.
- How to build a fortress : How to combine checksums and pgp, to build a burglar alarm for your software.
- Get your shell scripts right : Writing shell scripts like professionals is an important asset for every Linux user.
- make My day ! : Explains a little known but very useful aspect of the make utility.
- Two is better than one ! Making the best of two (or more) distributions, with two disk drives, in the same Linux box.
- How big is that ? A good book-keeping tool. Good for many uses.
- Many small tips: Download these small tips, and enjoy Linux better.
- Keyboard shortcuts on the command line terminal.
- diskxray : A simple tool for preserving information about your disk. Can come in handy if you messup your disk. (zip file, 170 kB)
- Flatten a tree ! Flatten a directory containing a complex structure of nested directories and files.
- Unmount a stubborn USB device Unmount stubborn USB devices which refuse to unmount/eject.
- Twenty examples to understand find.
- Trobleshoot your wifi
- Review your boot log
- Who is hogging my disk ? Identify the top ten culprits (or any number of them) who are eating up space in a given directory.
- Merge video (mp4) and audio(m4a) downloaded by youtube-dl
- A stitch in time saves nine. Keep your Linux system slim and trim.
- Connecting a LCD Projector to you Linux laptop
- Best way to make people learn and use Linux commands. install this script.
- Examples of some one-line-command-chains, and also get explanations of the commands and options used in the olcc.
- Understanding process states in Linux
- Delete lines from Bash hstory
- Create file names with encoded date
- Quiz and self-assessment
- Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
- Striptease on CNN (mp4 file)
- Striptease on CNN (webm file)
- There's more to come. Watch this space !
Linux related lectures by Dr. Partha