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show all connections on linux command line

the ss command will show all connections

4:09 am, June 28, 2024
windows
How to Enable Linux Subsystem in Windows

Enabling the linux subsystem in windows allows you to use linux within windows.  To enable linux sub system in windows you can do the following.  In the start menu type "Windows features..

11:35 pm, January 8, 2024
Linux
Check free space amount and show it in a nice human readable format

this checks the disk space amount on the linux macine and returns the result in human readable form.  df -H Usually this will show it in the following format. Example below. 

12:15 am, December 24, 2022
Windows Apps
chocolatey command line for windows

i keep forgetting what this is called but its like a command line installer for useful windows tools like ffmpeg and other useful packages. Its like a simple package manager for windows.  How ..

11:30 pm, November 28, 2022
linux
add ssh keys on your linux box in 10 seconds

Here i was typing in the ssh password over and over when connecting to ssh, when i could have just typed this one command and had my ssh keys copied to my linux box! What was i doing all that time! :..

11:00 pm, November 23, 2022
linux
Install PHP without Apache on Ubuntu

I was actually about to do some coding and then i got distracted with this annoying error on vscode. I keep getting this error on vscode: I had been ignoring it, but i thought fine, ill fix it and..

12:30 am, June 1, 2022
linux
add a user and add the user to sudo group

basic adding of a user in linux and then adding the user to the sudo group to allow it to run super user commands like apt update or other potentially system breaking commands. Note: replace "usern..

2:23 am, May 19, 2022
linux
add user to sudo group in ubuntu

Adds the user "username" to the sudo group usermod -aG sudo username

7:04 am, May 6, 2022
php
Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Required extension GD is not loaded.

How to resolve the error: Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Required extension GD is not loaded. This Error is ususally due to a php library or script requiring the GD php extention.  On ubuntu ..

1:04 am, March 9, 2022
javascript
old browser check with javascript

modified from this script i console logged all the items available so you can do what you need with them these are the avilable variables Javascript console.log(browser.agent);console.log(browser...

2:56 am, July 26, 2021
linux
simple backup to google drive fron linux

i added these scripts a while ago to backup mysql databases and web files to google drive a while ago, i just run them on a daily cron to copy the backups every day. the files so the bain backup_a..

1:04 am, June 27, 2021
linux
backup script to google drive that can be used for multiple directories

this zips the content of the target directory and then uploads it to a google drive backup location just create a file called ~/_backup_dir.sh and then add the following BASH - _backup_dir.sh  ..

5:26 am, May 26, 2021
linux
start ssh and add key git

i usually add this to a .sh file and make it +x to run ssh agent and add the github key bash eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"ssh-add ~/.ssh/github

1:24 am, April 3, 2021
linux
play youtube videos on firefox in ubuntu 18

sudo apt install libavcodec-extra also checked that firefox was able to pla drm video

5:06 am, April 2, 2021
linux
Creating a chart about charts.css with charts.css from the command line

Creating a chart about charts.css with charts.css from the command line: BASH (      echo "<table class='charts-css bar show-labels show-heading'>"      echo "&l..

8:33 am, March 18, 2021
linux
linux mount a drive manually

this is how you can mount a drive in linux first list the drives available with:  BASH sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL or this BASH sudo blkid ok once we have th..

4:24 am, March 12, 2021
linux
installing exfat and ntfs drivers to enable reading of these filesystems

this will install the ntfs package on your linux system, allowing you to read and mount ntfs partitions on drives. NTFS 3G BASH sudo apt updatesudo apt install ntfs-3g This should give you the fol..

4:56 am, February 20, 2021
linux
linux list all drives and partitions

the following command will list all drives and partitions in your shell BASH sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL It should look something like this depending on your drive se..

4:50 am, February 20, 2021
linux
how to check the temperature of the pi using command line

to get the temperature of the pi in shell or command line type the following: BASH vcgencmd measure_temp This measures the GPU temperature. Which should generate something like this: To get the..

11:39 pm, February 17, 2021
linux
how to check linux kernel version on rasberry pi rasberian

You can check which linux kernel version on rasberry pi a couple of ways, the easiest is using the uname command BASH uname -r which should give you something like this (but probably not exactly th..

2:33 am, February 17, 2021
linux
how to find what version pi you are using

So i was wondering the other day how to show what raberry pi i had, rather than opening it up. you can install lshw and it can list all your hardware Install it with BASH uname -r which should gi..

2:19 am, February 17, 2021
linux
change file permissions to -rw-rw-r--

When adding a new php template file, it adds it under the www-data user with the file permissions set to -rw-r--r-- so its not remotely editable. Use chmod 664 to change it to -rw-rw-r-- chmod 664 ca..

8:39 am, February 6, 2021
linux
install atom editor on ubuntu

You can download atom from https://atom.io/ and run the .deb package or if you want to use apt you will need to add it as a repository. https://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/installi..

11:42 pm, January 24, 2021
linux
Enabling SSH on Ubuntu

To enable SSH connection via putty or another terminal app on ubuntu, do the following. Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T sudo apt update sudo apt install openssh-server Check if its runningsudo syst..

5:16 am, January 24, 2021
linux
certbot add a certificate for one domain

this adds a certificate for one domain and modifies the nginx config to use the certificate also giving you the option to redirect all traffic to the secure version

6:46 am, August 26, 2020
linux
renew all SSL certificates with certbot

just issue the following command in bash

6:45 am, August 26, 2020
linux
To make Ubuntu do nothing when laptop lid is closed

sudo nano /etc/systemd/logind.confchange this to ignore: `HandleLidSwitch=ignore`save the filerestart the login daemon sudo service systemd-logind restart

12:50 am, July 27, 2020
linux
add a user to a group

usermod -a -G examplegroup exampleusername

3:00 am, July 12, 2020
linux
loop through each directory in a target directory and compress them

this one loops through each of the target directory and also compresses each one

2:55 am, July 12, 2020
linux
loop through each directory in a target directory

i thought this would be useful for backing up all files in the /var/www/html/ directory rather than having to do each seperately, this loops through all of them

2:47 am, July 12, 2020
linux
tar.gz to compress a directory in linux and then decompress it

a pretty common way to zip up contents in a directory into one (or technically two) archive(s). Add to tar.gz This will add the directory and all sub directories into the archive called the-archiv..

2:41 am, May 26, 2020
linux
Find Disk Space Usage using DU

The easiest way to check the space used in a directory in linux is this command: du -h This will do the current directory and all its sub directories. if you want to see a specific one type this d..

11:30 pm, April 28, 2020
linux
how to unzip in linux

How to easily unzip in linux sudo apt install unzip unzip myzip.zip done.

11:51 pm, December 5, 2019
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