Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

7za extract file to target folder

7za x compressed_file.001 -o/scratch where: x: to extract compressed_file.001: The file which is going to be extracted -o: specify output folder /scratch: the output folder That’s it, Enjoy! Source: http://7zip.bugaco.com/7zip/MANUAL/commands/extract_full.htm

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How to quickly divide a file into smaller segments with 7zip on RedHat

I have a very large file ~ 1.7 TB that’s causing me some issues with its transfer over NFS. I use 7z to split it into into multiple smaller files and then transfer them: 7za -v900g -mx0 a MY_BIG_FILE_SPLITTED.7z /MY_BIG_FILE … Continue reading

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How to restart the gnome-shell if it glitches or slows down

Alt+F2 Type r Press Enter There you go!

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Testing the new WordPress Mobile Editor

So far so good!

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How to call GitHub REST API from Ubuntu

In brief, I needed to get a list of the members currently in my organization at GitHub. There are multiple ways to do so, including: Direct calls to the API from curl sudo apt install curl Python using PyGitHub pip … Continue reading

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