Hope to periodically update the list as I get to know of a new "HowTo" ..
Mount a remote samba server shared directory in Linux (Ubuntu)
$ mount -t cifs //10.2.5.5/shared -o username=un,password=pw /test
Extract a "tar.gz" file in Linux
$ tar -xzf tar-file-name.tar.gz
- tar - the tar command.
- x - extract the archive.
- z - uncompress the archive using gzip.
- f - use archive file.
tar-file-name.tar.gz - the name of the tar.gz to create.
Create a "tar.gz" file in Linux
$ tar -czf new-tar-file-name.tar.gz file1 file2 folder1 folder2
- tar - the tar command.
- c - create new archive.
- z - compress the archive using gzip.
- f - use archive file.
- new-tar-file-name.tar.gz - the name of the tar.gz to create.
file-or-folder-to-archive - the name of the folder we want to archive.
Mounting and un-mounting Qemu image
nbddevice="/dev/nbd2"
nbdmount="/dev/nbd2p1"
modprobe nbd max_part=8
qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd2 image_path
mount /dev/nbd2p1 $work_dir/$image_template
umount $work_dir/$image_template
qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd2
wget java
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wget --no-cookies --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u39-b04/jdk-6u39-linux-x64.bin
