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AZRedhawk44

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Useful commands
« on: August 12, 2010, 07:46:12 PM »
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Your turn. [popcorn]
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2010, 08:05:38 PM »
Rm -r *
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2010, 08:09:37 PM »
sit, stay, heel, down, fetch, release, come, stay, off, hush, in the back, out, do it
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2010, 08:11:18 PM »
Freeze....
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2010, 08:17:35 PM »
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2010, 08:27:48 PM »
mogrify -rotate 90 mypic.jpg

pdftk inputdoc.pdf cat 5 output page6.pdf && lpr page6.pdf

feh -i *.jpg





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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2010, 09:14:43 PM »
sudo shred -f -v -x -z /dev/sda
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2010, 09:20:35 PM »
estaada sho! dast ha baala!
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2010, 09:38:16 PM »
Take your worthless job and shove it [__]  [___] [___].
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2010, 09:55:16 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on August 12, 2010, 09:38:16 PM
Take your worthless job and shove it [__]  [___] [___].

As Hawkmoon, on an airplane, pulls the emergency slide and grabs a few beers and slides down to fame and non-fortune.
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2010, 09:59:13 PM »
SHOW ME YOUR HANDS...... NOW!!!!! SHOW EM.

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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2010, 10:05:41 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on August 12, 2010, 07:46:12 PM
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda



Is taking a long-*expletive deleted*ss time on a 160GB laptop hard drive.  Been running for 3 and a half hours now.
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2010, 10:18:01 PM »
make me a sammich.
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2010, 10:49:12 PM »
[Walt Kowalski voice]Get off my lawn.[/Walt Kowalski voice]
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2010, 10:50:19 PM »
Siuthad!
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2010, 10:58:22 PM »
Quote from: Tuco on August 12, 2010, 10:18:01 PM
make me a sammich.

sudo make me a sammich
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2010, 11:00:57 PM »
Quote from: Tuco on August 12, 2010, 10:18:01 PM
make me a sammich.

Quit selling that cheap jewelry on the Internet and make me a sammich.....


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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2010, 11:07:58 PM »
This is an easy one, but I just learned it:

cd -

(goes back to last working directory, regardless of where it is)
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2010, 11:46:07 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on August 12, 2010, 07:46:12 PM
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda


The first one took a bit over 4 hours on a 160GB drive.

A second time, now, on a 250GB laptop drive this time.  Probably won't finish before I go to bed.

Two co-workers buggered up their laptops with spyware and other good fun.  Unknown whether their data they backed up is also infected, but I told them to back up everything of value and I would nuke the drives and reinstall the OS and apps, clean. 
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2010, 03:27:14 AM »
mput *.*
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2010, 03:55:35 AM »
Sic brass.
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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #21 on: August 13, 2010, 06:51:53 AM »
showmeyourhandsdropthegunshowmeyourhandsdropthegunshowmeyourhandsdropthegun....

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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #22 on: August 13, 2010, 08:54:51 AM »
Klaatu barada nikto

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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #23 on: August 13, 2010, 10:33:46 AM »
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$ alias   cls                      'clear ; ls -CF'

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$ alias   do_math             'set \!:1 = `echo "\!:3-$" | bc -l`'

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Re: Useful commands
« Reply #24 on: August 13, 2010, 11:04:46 AM »
Respect Mah Authoratay!  :police:
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