I needed to copy a bunch of JPGs from one folder structure to a mirror structure, but didn’t want to copy all the RAW files. Came across two examples. I tried the second (mainly because I understand it), and it worked nicely.

Example 1

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/images
find . -depth -type f -name '*.jpg' | cpio --pass-through \
 --preserve-modification-time \
 --make-directories --verbose /home/new_dir

Example 2

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/images
find . -type d -name '*' -exec mkdir -p /home/new_dir/{} \;
find . -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec cp {} /home/new_dir/{} \;

The two commands I need are:

which and whereis.

I was looking for the video format codes, and came across this page:

if I want to do a “du” command, and want to exclude certain folders (like /mnt in my case) I would run this while at root level, in the root folder.

#du -hs –exclude=’mnt’ *

For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why some machines on my LAN could be accessed by their server name, while others required IP address  to access.

Then I came across this post.

Mostly linux machines could not be access by their name (only IP address) because the name gets propagated using netbios. If Samba was installed and configured on the linux boxes, then it would work. But since I don’t have samba installed (nor do I want it) I have to manually configure the DNS entries in the Tomato formaware router. Adding the IP address, MAC Address and hostname to the Basic > Static DHCP setup will make the names pingable and accessible from any machine on the LAN.

Turn a low powered PC into a RDP terminal server client

http://pctsc.ponderworthy.org/

Very interesting, and potentially useful.

Since I decided to get a new motherboard to try to solve what I thought was a memory problem, I also decided (on a whim) to look into the rtorrent rc file.

Came across this site. Turns out the reason the xen server kept hanging may have been related to the max memory usage option… I’ve made some changes… we’ll see how they work.

I need to re-visit that site since there’s so much info on there, that I’d like to read and absorb. Continue reading →