Passive ftp connections are very common when set behind a proxy or firewall. In a passive ftp connection, the client sends the PASV command to the server and is the server who selects a port at random and sends it to the client. We must configure directive PassivePorts in ProFTPD.
ls is a utility that list information for any file type including directories, by default (when not passed any option) ls displays the contents of the current (or specified) DIR no recursively, ordered alphabetically and ignoring the hidden files/directories.
prename is a utility developed in Perl by Larry Wall (creator of the Perl language) and improved by Robin Barker, which allows you to rename in masses. prename finds all files whose name matches a pattern specified (REGEXP). This utility is part of the perl package in Debian GNU/Linux.
If you can’t connect to ftp site due by ISP provider/Network restriction then it is recommended that you use an ftp client that implements the hftp Protocol
When you try to unpack a .tar.xz file you get the following error messages:
tar (child): xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory (child) tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Git is one of the most popular version control system due to its speed, efficiency and support to a distributed development. Today LibreByte will shown how to sharing a git repository in read mode.
Recently a friend told me:
I have to remove the watermark of hundreds of images, you could do it with a program like GIMP but are hundreds of images, I know that you can automate this process using some commands of the ImageMagick suite; I need your help to make the script in bash.
Some months ago when I replaced my Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Merkat) by Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) XFCE, on my work computer, it happened that the font rendering were very ugly, the desktop in general looked ugly then I found some interesting trick at the Arch Linux wiki, after reading: Font Configuration, I execute the following steps:
Iceweasel is a completely free web browser based on Mozilla Firefox, but differs from it in that the logo and the brand can be distributed as free software
Desktops such as GNOME, KDE, LXDE, XFCE offer an easy way to determine the size of a file or directory, right-click on the file in question, select properties from the context menu, but environments servers we dont like those mentioned above so it should resort to the CLI and make use of the du command which calculates the space occupied by a file or directory
