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-====== Shell Commands ======+====== Shell Commands & Oneliner ======
  
 **the place for useful commands, 1-liners, mini-howtos & snippets** **the place for useful commands, 1-liners, mini-howtos & snippets**
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    tar -czvf myfiles.tar.gz /home/username/myfiles/    tar -czvf myfiles.tar.gz /home/username/myfiles/
 +
 +
 +**create tar.gz archiv of full system without **
 +
 +   tar cvpzf /mnt/somewhere/backup.tgz --exclude=/data --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev /
 +
  
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 **backup raw data of a disc (as root): ** **backup raw data of a disc (as root): **
  
-  dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c9 > /PATH/TO/BACKUP.gz+  dd if=/dev/sdX | gzip -c9 > /PATH/TO/BACKUP.gz
  
 **restore to a __drive of same size__ as original medium:** **restore to a __drive of same size__ as original medium:**
  
-  gunzip -c /PATH/TO/BACKUP.gz | dd of=/dev/sda+  gunzip -c /PATH/TO/BACKUP.gz | dd of=/dev/sdX
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 ---- ----
  
-===== swap ===== 
- 
-**create and use a swapfile** 
- 
-   dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=100000 
-   mkswap /swapfile 
-    
-edit /etc/fstab -- add a swap-line for auto activation after reboot: 
- 
-   /swapfile       swap    swap    defaults        0       0 
- 
- 
-turn it on: 
-   swapon /swapfile 
- 
-and verify: 
-   free -m 
-   mount 
- 
-\\ 
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 ===== sound ===== ===== sound =====
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 info from: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-add-bash-completion-in-debian info from: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-add-bash-completion-in-debian
  
 +==== Create Random File ====
 +
 +count is in KiB
 +
 +  dd bs=1024 count=1000 </dev/urandom >myfile  
 +
 +===== Fix locales ===== 
 +
 +  export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8; locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 
  
  
  
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