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Linux Hacks

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Michael Olschimke

Some geeks have assembled a list of 58 Linux hacks.

It contains some very useful hacks, including:

  • Running multiple X sessions
  • Backup your website easily
  • Finding the biggest files
  • Defrag your databases
  • Parallelise your build
  • Save battery power
  • Unclog open ports
  • Faster Hard drives
  • Access your programs remotely
  • Generating package relationship diagrams
  • Unmount busy drives
  • Listing today’s files only
  • Avoid common mistypes and long commands
  • Where did that drive mount?
  • Autorun USB devices
  • Transferring files without ftp or scp
  • Hardening ssh
  • Stop replying to pings
  • Slow down ping rates
  • Password-less ssh
  • Using rsync over ssh

The best being:

  • Talk to your doctor!
  • Super cow powers

From: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/wiki/index.php/58_Cool_Hacks

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