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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?
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ncis useful. For example: if you have a disk image downloaded on computer A but want to write it to an SD card on computer B, you can run something likeuser@B: nc -l 1234 | pv > /dev/$sdcardAnd
user@A: nc B.local 1234 < /path/to/image.img(I may have syntax messed up--also don't transfer sensitive information this way!)
Similarly, no need to store a compressed file if you're going to uncompress it as soon as you download it---just pipe
wgetorcurltotarorxzor whatever.I once burnt a CD of a Linux ISO by
wgeting directly tocdrecord. It was actually kinda useful because it was on a laptop that was running out of HD space. Luckily the University Internet was fast and the CD was successfully burnt :)