Quick and easy sharing of a directory over HTTP in Linux
Say you want to share a folder for a friend. What better way than pointing him to an URL? Put this in your .bash_profile and login to your account. alias webshare=‘python -c ”import Simpl[...]
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Apt links in webpages
You can insert apt links in HTML by simply making a link to apt:package_name. For example: apt:yeahconsoleInstall YeahConsole. [...]
Ping all the hosts in /etc/hosts
Did you know you can ping all the hosts listed in the /etc/hosts file with one command? Do it with for i in `grep -v “^#” /etc/hosts | awk ‘{print $1}’`; do ping -c 1 -w 2 $i ; echo; done [...]
Quickly install a server in Ubuntu
It doesn’t get easier than this. Open up a terminal in Ubuntu and type sudo tasksel An ncurses screen will then allow you not only to install a LAMP server in three moves but also select a Samba, Tomcat Java server[...]
