Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Bash script to monitor background processes

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

while [ 1 ]; do ps -ef | grep bzip2; echo “=============================================”; sleep 5; done; where: bzip2: is the process name or part of the process name Press Ctrl+c at any time to cancel the process

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How to compress a file into multiple splitted files (Like what you used to do in MS Windows using Winrar)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

I made it through the GUI this time, not using the command line: Opened Gnome File Roller (Applications ->Accessories->Archive Manager) Dragged the folder I wanted to compress inside it Click “Create Archive” Click “Other Options” Tick “Split in volumes of” … Continue reading →

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SQL statement to unlock user account in oracle

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

ALTER USER username ACCOUNT UNLOCK;

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How to split a text file in Ubuntu

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Simple! Just use the “split” command, if no arguments are specified, it will split the text file to files each containing 1,000 lines of text.

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Import Your Gmail Contacts into Mozilla Thunderbird

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

To export your address book from Gmail and import it into Mozilla Thunderbird: Save your Gmail contacts as gmail-to-outlook.csv. Select Tools | Import… from the menu in Mozilla Thunderbird. Make sure Address Books is selected. Click Next >. Highlight Text … Continue reading →

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