I’ve been using command line for zipping and ‘tarring’ for a while and never really needed to exclude directories from the archive. I had to do this today and I worked out that I had to use absolute paths to achieve this. The following examples will exclude multiple directories from tar and zip archives respectively: [...]
Adding a startup script on Ubuntu server
This is a useful tip for my reference. I’ve been creating some startup scripts on my Ubuntu server lately and her are a couple of steps required to get this working. Write your startup script and place it in /etc/init.d/ directory. Let’s say you called your startup script – myScript. You then install your script [...]
HOWTO convert and shrink your DVD into a web-playable format
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It is my tool of choice when it comes to backing up my DVDs. It allows me to shrink DVDs to a relatively small size and convert them to a web-playable format, such as mp4. I use the Command Line [...]
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