Recently I had to reduce the size of many images for uploading  them to a website. Unfortunately I didn’t find any tool like IrfanView on Ubuntu, which I’ve used for such problems in my Windows days. But there is a much smarter way to batch resize images on Linux. You simply can use the convert command from […]
Recently I brought a mp3 player that wasn’t able to shuffle the track through all folders. That’s why I had to bring all tracks to the root directory of the player (flatten directory structure). I did it with the following command, that flattens the whole structure by searching all files in the structure and copying […]
To delete all content from current position to the end of file on bash, you can take the following steps: Open file in vi or vim $> vi fiele $> # or $> vim file Switch to visual block mode Ctrl+v Press G (Shift+g) Mark text to delete with arrow keys top and down or just press […]
To upload a file on the shell via FTP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol) you can use the wput command. Therefor you have to install it with your systems package manager (aptitude in this example): $> sudo apt-get install wput Now you can upload files like that: $> wput loacalfiletoupload ftp://user:password@host/path/to/target/on/remote/host Attention: The target path have to be relative to […]
