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--- general_commands [2022/10/17 22:59] – [tee] gman
+++ general_commands [2024/06/19 22:27] (current) – gman
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 ====== CLI: Commands & Usage ======
+===== apt =====
+<code>
+# [1] Update package repo
+apt update
+# [2] Upgrade your distro
+apt full-upgrade -y
+# [3] Remove obsolete packages left after the upgrade
+apt autoremove
+# [4] Clear local repo of useless package files
+apt autoclean
+# Or do it all in one line:
+apt update && apt full-upgrade -y && apt autoremove && apt autoclean
+</code>
+----
 ===== arp =====
 Running ''arp'' at the command line will print the arp table (shows the IPs mapped to MAC addresses).
+----
 ===== check distro =====
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 pending
+----
+===== dd =====
+==== wipe a disk ====
+Fill the disk with all zeros (may take a while; it switches every bit to 0):
+<code>
+dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
+# replace X with the target drive letter.
+</code>
+To secure wipe, populate the entire disk with random data rather than zeros (takes longer):
+<code>
+dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
+# replace X with the target drive letter.
+</code>
+Sincd ''dd'' does not have a verbose setting, you can get some visual feedback with this (run each in a separate term window):
+<code>
+watch vmstat -d
+htop
+</code>
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 <code>
-alias tee='sed -r 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' | tee'
+alias tee="sed -r 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' | tee"
 </code>
 ----
+===== tr =====
+**Translate:** Use this to (among other things) convert lower case to upper case. Example:
+<code>
+sha256sum filename.ext | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
+</code>
+----
 ===== untar =====