Ever lost the password to an archive file? You can recover it from the CLI with rarcrack. Just be sure you have the unrar-free and NOT the unrar-nonfree package installed. It tries a bruteforce method on the archive file and also works with other archive filetypes: INFO: detected file type: rarINFO: cracking test_archive.rar, status file:… Read More »
Using the command line, you can search for files larger than a given filesize using find /path/to/dir-containing-files -type f -size +1024k This will search for files larger than 1MB (1024k). Use multiples of 8 to change the filesize number.
You can use a one-string command in Linux to nicely display in CLI the processes that consume your CPU. Use ps -e -o pcpu,cpu,nice,state,cputime,args –sort pcpu | sed ‘/^ 0.0 /d’ and you will get something like this: %CPU CPU NI S TIME COMMAND 0.1 – 0 S 00:00:13 metacity 0.1 – 0 S 00:00:18 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 0.2 – … Read More »
Want a customized clock and date applet display in the GNOME Panel? Open gconf-editor and go to apps > panel > clock_screen0 > prefs. Edit the format field and type custom in it. Now, in the custom_format field type <span color=”#333333″>%a %d %b</span> <b>%H:%M</b> If you are interested in CISSP then go through 70-640 dumps… Read More »