To automatically stick the logo onto your background, do these commands in the directory. Get the void linux logo from wikipedia 1wget https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Void_Linux_logo.svg/256px-Void_Linux_logo.svg.png?20170131170632 Rename it, and resize it (the standard size is too small for …

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Brightness Edit this file: /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness

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Convert a text file from one encoding type to another with: 1iconv -f ascii -t utf8 oldfilename > newfilename Available options are: ISO-8859-15 UTF-8 ASCII Lots more Generate a full list of encoding types available with: 1iconv -l

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Trace the route to any domain name. 1traceroute to splint.rs (89.216.117.22), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 2 1 _gateway (192.168.0.1) 0.265 ms 0.209 ms 0.193 ms 3 2 100.64.0.1 (100.64.0.1) 56.974 ms 60.893 ms 60.911 ms 4 3 172.31.254.2 (172.31.254.2) 61.795 ms 61.610 ms 70.443 ms 5 4 172.31.254.2 (172.31.254.2) 69.929 …

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'Downloads` directory always too full of crap? Make it a temporary filesystem! Everything will be deleted whenever you reboot. 1rm -rf ~/Downloads # Be brave! 2mkdir Downloads 3cp /etc/fstab /tmp/ 4echo "tmpfs $HOME/Downloads tmpfs defaults,size=1G 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab 5sudo systemctl daemon-reload # Ignore …

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Show system time: 1date Show hardware time: 1sudo hwclock -r Change system time to match hardware time: 1sudo hwclock --hctosys Change hardware time to match system time: 1sudo hwclock --systohc Manually set the hardware time to a specified date: 1sudo hwclock --set --date="8/25/19 13:30:00" Normal Date 1date +%d/%m/%y …

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Requirements Setup git You can make Alice the author, while you are still the commiter: 1name="Alice Bobinson" 2email="alice@email.com" 3 4git add ${file} 5git commit --author="${name} <${email}>" Or, make Alice both the committer and the author: 1git -c user.name="${name}" -c user.email="${email}" commit -m …

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If statements Test statement equality as so: read t1 read t2 if test $t1 != $t2; then echo 'variables do not match' else echo 'variables match' fi exit 0 Case Structure These deal with multiple states rather than forking conditions. Example: #!/bin/bash # Simple case demonstration echo "What's your favourite creature?" …

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How to translate pdfs to text (results are very poor, and will need lots of corrections). Dependencies Search for 'tesseract english' (or whatever language). Arch: tesseract-data-eng and poppler-utils Script 1pdftoppm -png file.pdf test 1for x in *png; do 2 tesseract -l eng "$x" - >> out.txt 3done

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Convert between spreadsheet formats with sc-im. 1sc-im --quiet --quit_afterload --nocurses --export_csv ${file}.xlsx 2sc-im --quiet --quit_afterload --nocurses --export_tab ${file}.sc 3sc-im --quiet --quit_afterload --nocurses --export_mkd ${file}.csv 4sc-im --quiet --quit_afterload --nocurses --export_txt ${file}.tsv

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