Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Install Network Manager 0.7 in Ubuntu Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic …etc

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

A very nice site called Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archives) where many teams contribute their own deb packages to be used by anyone, it’s not an official repository and many of the PPAs are for testing purposes only, but anyway … Continue reading →

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Network Manager 0.7 Multiple Simultaneous Connections!

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

Four network connections active at the same time: 3G connection (etisalat USB modem) 2 wireless networks with 2 different wireless cards (the internal card and another external one) 1 wired connection This is EXTREMELY useful and I gained a lot … Continue reading →

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How To Write Infinite Loop in Bash

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

This is how you create an infinite loop in bash to run a piece of code infinitely at defined intervals. #!/bin/bashwhile [ 1 ]do # Your code goes here # Modify sleep time (in seconds) as needed below sleep 2done … Continue reading →

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find files and copy them to a certain folder in bash (draft)

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

find . -name “*” | grep -i scomm | xargs ls -ltr | grep “Aug 13 10” | awk ‘{print $9}’ to use in the cp command (get the column number 9 which contains the file’s full path cp `find … Continue reading →

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How to search for a string inside multiple text files

Posted on August 16, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

find starting_folder -name “*” | grep -i file_name | xargs grep -i search_string for example: “find . -name “*” | grep -i hobba | xargs grep -i tito” searches for the string “tito” inside all files whose name contains the … Continue reading →

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