Useful Linux commands for querying your computer for hardware information.
The iostatcommand is another good way to get information about the hardware in your computer. This command displays information about the average CPU usage as well as reads and writes to your hard disk...
View ArticleThe iftop command. A good way to keep track of network usage on Linux.
The monitoring of your network interfaces just got a little easier with the iftop command. This command will return information about a certain network interface and will allow you to see who is...
View ArticleHow to install the Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu and Linux Mint 14 via the command...
To install Nvidia drivers in Linux Mint, download the drivers and save them to your home directory, then you need to log out of your desktop back to the LightDM log in manager, then press...
View ArticleMounting an ISO image with the command line and other useful commands.
Mounting an ISO image to a folder and accessing the contents of the image is very simple. Firstly we need to create a directory to mount the image to. |{/mnt/Elements/Files/ISOs}-{Fri Mar 22 23:52:17}...
View ArticleHow to create a shared folder for a group of users on Debian Linux.
How to create a shared folder on a Linux machine that a group of users may access. This is very useful for a shared folder that many users may place files. Firstly; you need to create a folder in the...
View ArticleHow to use the transmission remote interface on Linux to check your torrents.
The transmission remote interface is very good for accessing your torrent client over a network. Use the command below to access a transmission session and see the progress of your torrents. The syntax...
View ArticleHow to perform an Internet speedtest using the command line in Ubuntu.
A network speedtest is a good way to get a picture of how fast your Internet connection really is. To perform a speedtest in Ubuntu, first install pip using this command. sudo apt-get install...
View ArticleGet comprehensive networking information from the command line.
If you are using Network Manager to connect to a network, then it is possible to get comprehensive networking information from the command line. This command will print a lot of information about your...
View ArticleHow to get information about a video file with the Linux command line.
The Linux command line may be used to get information about a video file easily. Here is an example. Getting the video resolution with a simple command. jason@jason-desktop:~/Videos$ ffprobe -v quiet...
View ArticleGet weather information from the command line in Linux.
This nice obfuscated and overly complex command will get weather information from wttr.in using the command line. jason@kaio:~$ exec 3/dev/tcp/wttr.in/80; printf 'GET /Wagga Wagga...
View ArticleHow to use the Network Manager CLI on Ubuntu.
Using the Network Manager CLI app to get information about your network connections is very simple. This allows a user to manage network connections without using a GUI. Linux users do not always use...
View ArticlePipewire audio system to take over from Pulseaudio and Jack.
The pipe wire system is a new audio system that is taking over from Pulseaudio in Fedora 34. This is also in Ubuntu 21.04. This is a superior audio system and also replaces the Jack audio system. I...
View ArticleA very cool Linux trick. Read the time in the terminal from an image.
This is a very cool Linux one-liner, this is using the Tesseract OCR engine to read an image generated by a script and then read the time from it. ┌──[jason@192.168.1.2]─[~/Pictures/letter] └──╼ ╼ $...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Shell is very nice but has some defects.
The Google Cloud Shell is a very nice feature of Google services, but it has no process limit and the root account is accessible. Just use sudo and you may access the root account and then wreak havoc...
View ArticleInstall a lovely calculator to convert units.
A few very useful CLI utilities for Linux. How to have syntax highlighting in a cat command.
View Article
