Sometimes could be useful open in terminal the folder/directory you’re using directly from Nautilus, one of the most used file manager in lots of Linux distributions. To do this is very easy, it’s enough add the nautilus-open-terminal extension to the file manager Nautilus with the following command:
Month: November 2014
Many people that have to manage data from different sources (DB2, MS Sql Server, MySql, Oracle, Excel, …) surely knows Pentaho Data Integration also known with the name Kettle. It’s a fantastic ETL (Extract, Transform, Load). But, because there is always a but, there is a little problem on Ubuntu 14.04 and Oracle Java: spoon, …
Sometimes, on your Ubuntu PC, could be useful working with commands in Terminal with a Windows shared folder, for example to syncronize backup with rsync. The problem is how to access to a Windows shared folder by the Terminal? Which is the path of Windows shared folder in Ubuntu 14.04? At first you have to …
In another post I wrote about how to encrypt a folder using Gnome EncFS Manager on Linux. In this article I want to tell how to encrypt an USB stick or an external hard disk, but first I want to explain why. The answer is quite easy, I need to encrypt an hard disk or …
Many Linux distributions have a bulk rename utility to rename many files at once. It’s simply named rename and is a Perl program. You can use it like a command (but it isn’t a command). The syntax of rename is very simple: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames] where