Monthly Archives: January 2011

Using rarcrack on Ubuntu

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Timothy Platt

Rarcrack is an open source rar file password cracker.  Use it when you’ve forgotten the password you put on a rar or zip file.  The current version (0.2) doesn’t work flawlessly on Ubuntu, so follow these steps. 1. Download the … Continue reading →

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BASH script to remove numeric prefix from files downloaded from scribd

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Timothy Platt

Scribd is a great service, offering PDF downloads of a variety of content.  Unfortunately there is an ugly 8 digit (random?) number prefixed on each file downloaded. 47432750-Book-Name-Whatever.pdf 47501680-Another-Book-Name.pdf 47502885-Yet-Another-Book-Name.pdf It’s not descriptive, and it makes alphabetic sorting of the … Continue reading →

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