the jackol’s den

5 August 2006

Quick Linux Command Line Tips

Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: LAMP; Tips .

Mirror web site (using compression and encryption)

rsync -az -e ssh --delete ~/public_html/ remote.com:'~/public_html'

Synchronize current directory with remote one

rsync -auz -e ssh remote:/dir/ . && rsync -auz -e ssh . remote:/dir/

Save a copy of data cdrom

gzip < /dev/cdrom > cdrom.iso.gz

Create cdrom image from contents of dir

mkisofs -V NAME -r dir | gzip > cdrom.iso.gz

Make encrypted archive of dir/ on remote machine

tar c dir/ | gzip | gpg -c | ssh user@remote 'dd of=dir.tar.gz.gpg'

Backup harddisk to remote machine

dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda | gzip | ssh user@remote 'dd of=hda.gz'

Store local browsable version of a page to the current dir

(cd cmdline && wget -nd -pHEKk http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html)

Download a set of files to the current directory

wget -r -nd -np -l1 -A '*.jpg' http://www.example.com/

Efficiently update a local copy of a site (handy from cron)

wget --mirror http://www.example.com/

14 September 2006 at 5:34 pm.

Further advance command you could find at:

thx,