Archive | April, 2015

You can use the SED linux command to search and replace a string within all files inside a directory: This example replaces all occurrences of fast with slow in file names that end in .htm: $ find ./* -name ‘*.htm*’ -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/fast/slow/g’ {} \;

Have you ever wanted to know what the commands various commands in linux do?  Such as the commands in: /bin /sbin /usr/bin Move to the bin directory of your choice and follow the example below: cd /bin ls | xargs whatis | less You will get an output of the command and a summary of it’s […]

One of the neatest tools that I’ve found is the program netcat. It is a way to pipe data over the network simply and easily. You don’t need a fancy protocol like CIFS, just stream the data over the LAN. Netcat is a “full duplex” connection, meaning it both sends and receives using the connection. […]