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To run a mysql query directly from command line, without entering the interactive mode, use -e flag, like below $ mysql -u user -p -e 's...

To download torrents using a command line, the easiest tool to use is transmission-cli. This tool is available in debian based distro and re...

Sometimes, when you are setting up a linux machine, there is a need to know what IP our machine is being connected to the public internet. T...

Sometimes we want to spawn off a few new instances, with the same spec and operating systems, but we do not want to go through the hassle of...

In order to create new instance (it is called server in openstack command), you need to know beforehand a few information to feed to the cre...

Thanks to http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/41832-ls-l-column-headings.html , I have managed to find out what is the meani...

The easy way to check if a site is available, is by using curl. For example, if you want to check whether www.google.com is available or not...

I found a weird error message when I tried to delete some files in my linux box today. The command I used was sudo rm -rf *.js to delete s...