Original computing articles by a systems administrator

Category Archives: Command Line

Finding files in Linux: A Review

IntroThis topic has been covered more than enough on the internet, so this goes a bit against my mission statement of ‘original articles.’ However, after a recent experience of being put on the spot to find some files on the Linux file system using various parameters, without having my beloved man pages, or being in… Continue Reading

Working with Spreadsheets from the Linux Command Line Interface

Preparing the Spreadsheet:Before doing any of these operations you are going to want to save them as TAB delimited files. In order for your tabs to line up when being displayed in the terminal you may need to change your tab stop settings. In a regular terminal you would use: setterm -regtabs # Replace #… Continue Reading

Batch Convert Multiple Bin/Cue files to Iso Files in Linux

I had a bunch of bin/cue disk image files that I needed to convert to .iso files, and the program bchunk didn’t seem to have any way to process multiple files that I could see. So I came up with a command that would do this for me, so if you need to do the… Continue Reading