cool_commands

Commands that make my life easier

Credit:

• https://missing.csail.mit.edu/about/

Python

Kill open python processes pkill -f python --all

Transferring files

Syncs files in from here there, copies only differences from here to there not everything like scp. rsync -ah --info=progress2 /copy/from/here /copy/to/there

Copies files in parallel fpsync --verbose /from/local/folder /to/storage/device

Computing

Fix time sync errors across different computers ntpdata -q <ip address>

Git

Data Wrangling

Everyday

Unzip a tar.gz and extract to a specified directory: sudo tar xvf <filename>.tar.gz -C <destination>

Find IPs on a local network arp -a

Make sure all files have been transferred to storage before unmounting using command sync

Memory access

Read from physical memory using busybox/devmem devmem

sudo devmem 0x00000001 w 0x10 Write in hex what is 10 in decimal to some address

sudo devmem 0x00000001 To check out the number that is stored at that address