In this article, I am going to tell you about shell directory listener called watcherd. Daemon watcherd will check the directory changes and execute specified commands or shell scripts. Installing watcherd On Ubuntu 16.04 Download $ wget https://github.com/devilbox/watcherd/archive/master.zip Unzip archive $ [...]
OPEN SOURCE TOOLS
How to Install and Use Exiftool on Linux
You may have come across ExifTool while searching for an image recovery software. Well, ExifTool does more than that. It's a open source program for reading, modifying, and manipulating images, videos, audios and PDF metadata. Metadata are the additional data [...]
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How to Install Communication Tool "Ring" on Linux
The Ring is an open source tool which allows its users to communicate in multiple ways. It was developed with the main goal of protecting privacy and personal information. It is created and developed by a small team at Savoir-faire [...]
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Cheat - Create and View Cheatsheets on Command Line
Ever Linux user can admit often forgetting Linux commands or their options. Often we have to check Google or Askubuntu and some other places to remind us of some commands. Personally, I don't seem to keep "# add-apt-repository" in my [...]
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How to Install Light Table on Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7
In this article, we will install Light Table software installation on Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7. Few words regarding the software - it is a code editor that connects you to your creation with instant feedback. In other words, it [...]
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How to Install BigBlueButton on Ubuntu 16.04
There are a lot of open source web conferencing tools available these days and there are also a number of budget-friendly alternatives that still offer the same features and functions. Sometimes you can need web conferencing tools for remote collaboration, [...]
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mmwatch - Alternative Linux Watch Command which Print Rates
You should be conversant with the watch command, which allows you to repeat commands at certain intervals and monitor the changes. The mmwatch tool is an opensource command line tool from Cloudflare which lets you monitor a particular command and [...]
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Maim - A Screen Capture Tool for Debian 9 Desktop
Maim is a free and open source tool that can be used to take screenshots of your desktop. Maim allows for a lot of unique and interesting functionalities. It is very useful tool comparing to scrot and other tools. Maim [...]
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Nautilus Addon - ReSize JPG and PNG Image Files on Ubuntu 16.04
There are various tools available to reduce the size of jpg and png images like GIMP or a photo manager such as Shotwell or using the command in the terminal to perform batch processing of several image files. The another [...]
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Terminus - A Super Modern Terminal App for Linux
The terminal is the Linux tool which is mostly used and it sometimes appears as our default environment. We can need to tune it by modifying its appearance. So you can need to make it more attractive for you. On [...]
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3 Brilliant Open Source Command Line Address Book for Linux
Modern computer systems employ various tools for managing contacts in our address books. With the proliferation of social media applications, this complexity has increased considerably and lacks the greatest simplicity in style most Linux users adore. This article shows three [...]
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How to Install Open Visual Traceroute on Ubuntu 16.04
Open Visual Traceroute is a free and open source Java based visual traceroute and packet sniffer tool that can be used to display data in a 3D or a 2D map component. You can easily export data to image file [...]
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How to Manage Time from Linux Terminal using Ding Tool
Ding is a very simple solution to help with short-term time management. The beep sound uses the motherboard audio and works even if the speakers are muted. To manage time with ding, you need a linux terminal and that includes [...]
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How to Install OpenMaint on Ubuntu 16.04
openMAINT is an open source platform for facility and property management of all scales and industries. It is which can be used for the management of infrastructure, assets, buildings, and other professional equipment. It also helps in streamlining the maintenance [...]
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