Visual Shell for Linux
Answer:
GNU Midnight Commander is a directory browser/file manager for Unix-like operating systems, you can use it to browser shell, ftp, tar and more.
To install in Ubuntu,
# sudo apt-get install mc
Reference:
Jan 242010
Jan 202010
Parallel downloader in Linux
Answer:
wget is perhaps the most popular downloader (command) in Linux, but it cannot establish more than 1 connection to the server for max. speed.
Axel is a lightweight download accelerator for Linux that solve the problem.
To install under Ubuntu:
# sudo apt-get install axel
To download a file by using 10 connections
# axel -n 10 http://www.example.com/file.gz
That's very cool!
Jan 182010
How to force re-download a file using wget?
Answer:
Use the -nc flag, e.g.
# wget -nc ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z
Jan 182010
How to resume a partially-downloaded file using wget
Answer:
Use the -c flag, e.g.
# wget -c ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z
If there is a file named ls-lR.Z in the current directory, Wget will assume that it is the first portion of the remote file, and will ask the server to continue the retrieval from an offset equal to the length of the local file.
Reference: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html
Jan 072010
Disable IPv6 in Linux
Answer:
To disable IPv6 during boot time.
1. edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
# sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
2. append the following line at the end of your targeted kernel, save the file.
ipv6.disable=1
3. Restart your system and verify to see it is now disabled (The following command should return nothing)
# ip a | grep inet6
