Articles Posted in the Fedora Category

  • Listing local ip address of the system

    A Menu Based Linux Shell Script To Display Local And Public IP Addresses Of The System

    by admin on Nov 29, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

    When connected to the internet, the computer in use has a public ip address (or external ip address) that is assigned by the ISP and which is how it appears to the visiting websites and then there is the local ip address (or internal ip address) which is how it can be identified locally to [...]

    Posted in Apps, Fedora, Linux, Mint, Ubuntu

  • Album download in progress through Facepaste

    How To Download Facebook Albums Quickly Using Facepaste

    by admin on Sep 12, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

    Facepaste is a Firefox add-on that makes it simple to downloads entire albums from Facebook. The advantage of using this add-on is that no third party can access your Facebook account on your behalf unlike many stand alone Facebook album downloaders. Install Facepaste from here by selecting “Add to Firefox”.  After installing, to download any [...]

    Posted in 7, 8, Apps, Fedora, Linux, Mint, Vista, Windows, XP

  • wp

    How To Quickly Backup/Restore WordPress Blog Using Linux Terminal

    by admin on Jun 30, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

    It is important to have regular blog backups and WordPress blogs essentially have two components that need to be backed up : The WordPress database (that contains blog posts, comments, tags etc) The images and other stuff like config files (robots.txt, web server config and so on). Here is how to backup WordPress database named [...]

    Posted in Apps, Fedora, Linux, Mint, Ubuntu

  • How To Quickly Transfer Files From One Linux System To Another Using netcat

    How To Quickly Transfer Files From One Linux System To Another Using netcat

    by admin on Mar 28, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

    Here’s how to quickly transfer files from one Linux system to another using netcat: 1. Issue the following command in terminal on the source Linux system – cat <file name> | nc -l <port number> For example, to transfer a file ‘About.txt’ using port 5000, we need to issue the following command in terminal on [...]

    Posted in Fedora, Linux, Mint, Ubuntu

  • Showing current working directory

    How To Quickly Switch Back To Previous Directory When Using Linux Terminal

    by admin on Mar 27, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

    One of the earlier posts described how to quickly switch to home directory when using Linux Terminal. What if one needs to go back to the previous directory when using the Terminal? Here is a simple way to do that : Open Terminal and type : cd – The below example shows the initial directory [...]

    Posted in Fedora, Linux, Mint

  • List directory contents recursively in Linux

    Quickly Find Out Contents Of Directories And Subdirectories Using Linux Terminal

    by admin on Mar 22, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

    Linux command line / Terminal offers a quick and simple way to do most things. Let’s say that if we want to view contents of a directory and all the sub directories within it quickly all in one go, here is how to do it : 1. Open Terminal and type the path of the [...]

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