Mass renaming
Say you have a bunch of files that you want to rename, there is 2 easy approaches to this problem: you can use the aptly named ‘rename‘ utility which should be available on most Linux or you can use a…Continue Reading →
Linux
Beyond Bash
If you use Linux you are probably using the bash shell, but turns out there is life beyond bash! When using aptitude or apt-get I’m sure you tried this at least once: aptitude ins<tab> “Oops, that didn’t work but I…Continue Reading →
CLI ninja: Ping Sweep
Ever wanted to do a ping sweep in this new network you just broke in but you don’t want (or can’t, for some reason, AVs etc…) to upload any tools? Or even in your own network but you don’t have…Continue Reading →
Linux: Monitoring resources – CPU
In this post on the Linux resources series we are going to talk about monitoring our CPU usage. When everything slows down this might be a good first suspect to check, you can use the iostat command with the -c…Continue Reading →
Linux: Monitoring resources – Disk Space
Continuing with our series on Linux resources we are now going to check our disk space. To get a listing of mounted partitions with their size and used space you can use the df -h command, the -h meaning human-readable…Continue Reading →