Category: Productivity Hacks

  • How to Fix Error E05 in Canon Inkjet Printers

    How to Fix Error E05 in Canon Inkjet Printers

    How to Fix Error E05 in Canon Inkjet Printers Error E05 symptoms Canon inkjet printer shows error E05 on the display and will not print anything at all. There are a few steps to do and try to fix this as shown in the video bellow. Error E05 fixed Video How to fix error E05 […]

  • Linux Check Disk Space Commands

    Linux Check Disk Space Commands

    How to check disk space in Linux command line. The command df shows you free disk space and du returns the disk usage statistics for various files and folders. df command The df command shows disk usage statistics and it stands for “Disk Free”. The df command bellow without any options will return the disk […]

  • How to Remove Directory in Linux

    How to Remove Directory in Linux

    How to Remove or Delete Directory in Linux To delete a directory in Linux remove command to use is rm or rmdir. Both work fine but there is an important difference between how rm and rmdir remove a directory. Caution If you delete a directory from the GUI even in Linux, the folder is moved […]

  • How to Compress and Extract Files using the tar command on Linux

    How to Compress and Extract Files using the tar command on Linux

    How to Compress and Extract Files using the tar command on Linux and How to create tar.gz file in Linux command line Compress files The tar command is used to pack and compress files and directories on Linux. The archived files are usually named .tar.gz or .tgz and are called usually tarballs. As with many […]

  • Linux how o set environment variable

    Linux how o set environment variable

    Linux how o set environment variable How to set environment variable in Linux. Set environment variables in Linux To set a new environment variable, use the export command. For example to set the environment variable called TEST_HOME you can run this command. This prints the value of the variable you set earlier. Unsetting an environment […]

  • How to create a file in Linux using Terminal

    How to create a file in Linux using Terminal

    How to create a file in Linux using Terminal or SSH How to create a file in Linux using Terminal, Command line interface or SSH. There are a few ways to create a new empty file or redirect the output of a command to a new file. To create an empty file, any of these […]

  • Wrap text with tags in Notepad++

    Wrap text with tags in Notepad++

    Wrap text with tags in Notepad++ A macro can do that and it’s easier than you think. If you need to wrap the text with html tags or WordPress Gutenberg code blocks or paragraph block or a heading block. Start by selecting the text: In Notepad++ menu Click Macro > Start Recording. Ctrl+X – Cut […]

  • Commands any Linux Sysadmin should learn first

    Commands any Linux Sysadmin should learn first

    Commands any Linux Sysadmin should learn first. These are the commands any Linux Sysadmin should learn first. These are some of the most useful commands for system administration and devops on Linux. They are command line tolls because most of the actions on system administration you would want to be automated and scheduled uptime Time […]

  • How to zip and unzip files and folders in Linux

    How to zip and unzip files and folders in Linux

    How to zip and unzip files and folders in Linux Install Zip Unzip Install on RHEL, Centos, Fedora, Rocky Linux, etc. Install on Debian, Ubuntu, etc. Using zip and unzip to compress and extract files and folders. Current directory contents, files and one sub folder. Zip files and directories recursively This creates the zip file, […]

  • Automate Mouse Clicks on PC record and playback

    Automate Mouse Clicks on PC record and playback

    Automate Mouse Clicks on PC record and playback mouse actions. Automate mouse clicks using Python in Windows 10 and this simple script. Python is an increasingly popular programming language for quick tasks like this one. My Python programs are made of 2 parts. one that records mouse click events, that’s all that it does. The […]