Monthly Archives: September 2012

Ten things I wish I knew earlier about the Linux command line

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From http://tuts.pinehead.tv/

We all learn new things over time as we use applications with a vast amount of possibilities. Of course, some of those things would have been so useful if we had known them earlier. Here are 10 command line tricks that I wish I had learned much sooner.

Note: these tricks apply to bash, which is the default shell on most Linux systems. If you’re using a different shell, they may not work for you. If you don’t know which shell you have, it’s probably bash, so go ahead and try them!

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tarbackup

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From tarbackup

In a nutshell, the tarbackup service is more or less a free private SFTP server for people to put their encrypted backups on. If you have a crash or fire, you can download your backup, decrypt it, and restore it.
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Pass

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From zx2c4.com

Introducing pass

Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.

pass makes managing these individual password files extremely easy. All passwords live in~/.password-store and pass provides some nice commands for adding, editing, generating, and retrieving passwords. It is a very short and simple shell script. It’s capable of temporarily putting passwords on your clipboard and tracking password changes using git.

You can edit the password store using ordinary unix shell commands alongside the pass command. There are no funky file formats or new paradigms to learn. There is bash completion so that you can simply hit tab to fill in names.

The pass command is extensively documented in its man page.

 
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Automatically Detect File Changes on Your Server

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From bashshell.net

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is the Open Source version of Tripwire. AIDE takes a snapshot of every file on your server, records it and then will notify you of any changes. This tutorial will show you how to create a script that will automate this process and send you an email of the outcome.

Step #1: Install and Configure AIDE
If you need more information on installation and configuring AIDE.

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Xiki

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From xiki.org Xiki merges both the shell and GUI concepts. Commands in Xiki can have nested menus that are just text indented by 2 spaces. Use the mouse or keyboard,…

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