Let’s say you run a headless server and you want to fsck the main partition. The easy solution in this case is (if possible) to force fsck to run on the next boot. If you run slackware than all you really need is to create an empty file in /etc called forcefsck You could...
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I have some albums that were ripped in wma form (yes a shame I know). I wanted them converted into mp3 so my collection remains consistent. So this would be a command to run in a folder filled with .wma files. This keeps the names but not the tags so be sure to use...
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Did you ever need to have e-mail's sent from within a bash script? Maybe alert you of errors encountered? Me too.
Here's an easy way on how to do it:
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Sometimes is needed to have all files in a folder in the same case. Here’s a small script to rename all files in the folder to lower case: for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`; done
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Sometimes it’s easier to just drop to the command line then browse for fancy tools like phpMyAdmin. This is useful, especially for quick jobs. mysqldump -u user -ppassword your_database > database_backup.sql Of course you need to replace: user – mysql username password – the password your_database – the database you want to backup Adding...
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The command ls can be made to show directories and permission but it will not display directory sizes. Then it’s time for other commands. For example on my hosting account there is no file manager installed and evidently x and kde is missing too so, to find out directory sizes I can use the...
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