# 09 - Generate a strong password from the Linux command lineHow to use the output from /dev/urandom to generate a unique strong password from the Linux command line.
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# 09 - Generate a strong password from the Linux command line
How to use the output from /dev/urandom to generate a unique strong password from the Linux command line.
# 08 - Convert Microsoft Word DOC files to PDF
How to use AbiWord from the command line, in conjunction with the find command to convert a folder full of Word files into PDF's.
# 07 - How to rotate a video through 90 degrees
How to use VLC and mencode to rotate a video recorded in portrait mode to landscape mode.
# 06 - s3cmd, a command line interface to the Amazon S3 service
A demonstration on how to use s3cmd, to upload and retrieve files to and from the Amazon S3 off-site data storage solution.
# 05 - Alias command, an quick introduction
An introductory tutorial on using the Linux alias command to make shortcuts for long command line sequences.
# 04 - Secure password management using ccrypt
A command line solution to securely storing and managing your passwords in an encrypted master password file.
# 03 - Introduction to using the Linux Grep command
The example will demonstrate how to quickly process a web servers access log file, using Grep to search for certain activity, i.e. counting the number of downloads from your website.
# 02 - Using the Exif Tool to Read / Write Exif Tags
Using the Exif tool developed by Phil Harvey, which is a platform independent Perl library coupled with a command line utility, which will read and write Exif tags for JPEG images.
# 01 - Linux commands to check a new server specification
In this video I am going to show you some Linux commands, that you can use to check the specification of a new server you have just purchased.
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