macOS There’s an easy way to rename multiple files using finder in macOS Since the Yosemite release of Mac OS X (now called macOS) the Finder application (Mac’s equivalent of Windows File Explorer) has a powerful feature that lets you easily rename multiple files. Historically, renaming more than one file at a time required a custom script or a 3rd party add-on program. This new…
General Why you should own your Cable Modem (or at least consider it) Did you know you can own your cable modem as opposed to leasing an outdated model from your Internet Service Provider? It’s true, all the major home Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will gladly lease this equipment to you for years at a time, for about $10 a month. That really adds up…
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Let’s say you have a single file (a mysql dump) containing the output of multiple database backups… and you want to split them out into individual files. Input fil: # MySQL dump 7.1 # # Host: localhost Database: Purchase_Tracking # … Lots of CREATE TABLE and INSERTS … # MySQL dump 7.1 # # Host: localhost Database: Test # … Lots of CREATE TABLE…
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 source: wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/rarcrack/rarcrack-0.2/%5BUnnamed%20release%5D/rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2 2. Un tar tar -xjf rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2 3. Change directory cd rarcrack-0.2 4. Type make, hit enter. You will likely receive an…
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 files downloaded impossible. Here’s a small BASH shell script that will remove the first 9 characters (8 digits and the – character) from all…