Stuck at a CLI prompt in Linux and not sure what Romania is? Use the following command: dig +short txt Romania.wp.dg.cx Subsitute Romania for any other keyword you might want to see a short description of in your command line.
Everybody knows top or htop. Ever wished there was something similar but to monitor your files instead of CPU usage and processes? Well, there is.Run this: watch -d -n 2 ‘df; ls -FlAt;’ and you’ll get to spy on which files are getting written on your system. Every time a file gets modified it will… Read More »
All you need to display your latest GMail messages in the command line is this one-liner: curl -u username:password –silent “https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom” | tr -d ‘\n’ | awk -F ‘<entry>’ ‘{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}’ | sed -n “s/<title>\(.*\)<\/title.*name>\(.*\)<\/name>.*/\2 – \1/p” Substitute username:password with your GMail username and password.
If you do not wish to install a dedicated application for recording your desktop, you can do it with this one-liner: ffmpeg -f x11grab -s wxga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq /home/user/out.mpg All you need is have ffmpeg already installed (and most systems do). Navigate to /home/user and you’ll find you MPEG video file there.