Help! I’ve forgotten the root password! Even if you’ve forgotten the root password to your Ubuntu Linux system, it’s pretty easy to recover access to the root account by setting a new password. In this guide, we’ll show you how to set a new password for your root account in a few short steps. Reset […]
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The recoverjpeg tool available on Linux can scan hard drives, SD cards, or any storage device for lost photos. It’s a great tool for recovering deleted photos or attempting to salvage some pictures from a corrupted storage device. We’ll explain how it works and show you how to use it in this guide. There are
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If you have some files or folders that you want rsync to ignore, it’s simple enough to exclude them from a transfer by adding an extra option to the rsync command. In this guide, we show command examples for excluding files and/or directories in an rsync transfer. The rsync command expects you to specify your
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When using rsync over SSH for remote file transfers, you can avoid typing your password each time by setting up RSA key authentication. If this isn’t possible in your situation, the next best thing is to pass the SSH password in the rsync command. We’ll look at how to do that securely in this guide.
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If the computer you’re connecting to is running SSH on a different port than the standard (22), you’ll have to specify an extra option in your rsync command. This guide shows the correct syntax to use the rsync command on a different port than 22. The normal rsync-over-ssh command uses port 22 by default and
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find is an awesome Linux command that can come in handy all the time. It allows us to search for certain files, then execute a command (or commands) on all of those files. In this guide, we’ll show you a few ways that you can make your find command execute a lot more quickly. Check
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Renaming multiple files on Linux sounds like a simple task, but it can get rather complex. It’s possible to bulk rename files with the mv command and a bit of Bash scripting, or use the mmv and rename utilities – which aren’t ordinarily installed by default. In this guide, we’ll show various examples for renaming
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VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the most out of your Debian virtual machine. It gives you automatic resolution scaling, a shared clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and drop ability. The step by step instructions below will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Debian Linux. 1. First, we’ll use
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VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the most out of your CentOS virtual machine. It gives you automatic resolution scaling, a shared clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and drop ability. The step by step instructions below will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on CentOS Linux. 1. First, we’ll use
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It’s possible to supply a password in an SSH command with the sshpass utility on Linux. This guide will show how to install sshpass and then go over the correct command syntax for putting a password into the SSH command. As you might have guessed, putting your password in an SSH command is a bad
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