Daily Archives: 2016/02/05

rename: batch renames filenames

rename is a cli program to change filenames to a list of files. It can search for regexp and change them by others. First do a dry run: rename -n ‘s/\(//g’ $1; rename -n ‘s/\)//g’ $1; rename -n ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ $1; rename -n ‘s/ /./g’ $1; rename -n ‘s/\.-\./-/g’ $1; } and if everything is alright, […]

apt-file: find which files are installed where and by what package

apt-file is a program to find what package installed some file, and where it was installed.

mldonkey

It’s a great p2p network client. It can connect to the edonkey network, but also to kademlia, directconnect, filetp, bittorrent. It has a cli interface (mlnet or mldonkey), but can be controled by a web interface (visit “localhost:4080” in your browser) and there is also a gtk interface (mlgui)