cheat-sheet

My cheat sheet for commands I have trouble remembering.

Find and copy files by extension recursively

find . -name '*.pdf' -exec cp -r {} /home/jpickard/pdffiles \;

7-Zip compression (p7zip)

7z a archivename.7z thingtobearchived

Recursively unzip

while [ "`find . -type f -name '*.zip' | wc -l`" -gt 0 ]; do find -type f -name "*.zip" -exec unzip -- '{}' \; -exec rm -- '{}' \;; done

Merge PDF files

Ghostscript

gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=mergedfile.pdf -dBATCH file1.pdf file2.pdf

ImageMagick

convert file1.pdf[0-1] file2.pdf mergedfile.pdf

UFW

Examples

ufw status numbered
ufw delete 2
ufw allow from 192.168.1.10 to any port 22 proto tcp
ufw allow in on tailscal0 to interfaceip port 22 from otherdeviceip
ufw reset

List ports Linux is listening on

sudo lsof -nP -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN

sudo mount -t nfs 10.10.0.10:/backups /var/backups

/etc/fstab

# <file system>     <dir>       <type>   <options>   <dump>	<pass>
10.10.0.10:/backups /var/backups  nfs      defaults    0       0

Merge video files with ffmpeg

$ cat files.txt
file 'file 1.mkv'
file 'file 2.mkv'
file 'file 3.mkv'
file 'file 4.mkv'

ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i files.txt -c copy output.mkv

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