Linux day to day notes

Disk usage

Chromium disk usage

I just noticed that Chromium (which I very rarely use) was taking up 1.3GB of space in my .config folder.

Here's how to clean that up: disk usage - Why does Chromium take up 1 GB in my .config and can I reduce th…

Odd that it was taking up so much space, given that my daily driver is Firefox.

Composer disk usage

composer clearcache

apt

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean

Sorting by file size

I keep on running low on space. Disk Usage Analyzer is OK, but for the command line:

du -hs * | sort -h

The -h in both commands is for 'human readable'.

dust is better though.

Trimming a video from my phone so I can upload it up to Signal

Signal has a 100M upload limit. Plus it'd take ages to upload.

This does the job pretty simply, still good enough quality for sending as a message and reduces the filesize massively:

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf "scale=iw/2:ih/2" half_the_frame_size.mkv

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/447521

Shrinking images off my phone for web upload

Quick command to shrink images from my camera for uploading to the web.

mogrify -auto-orient -resize 25% *.jpg

Finding out which security updates need installing on a server

sudo unattended-upgrade -v --dry-run

https://askubuntu.com/a/832648/10271

Killing a process tree

I seem to need to be doing this more lately on php artisan serve.

Appears to be lots of ways of doing it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/392022/whats-the-best-way-to-send-a-signal-to-all-members-of-a-process-group

All falling in to the category of https://xkcd.com/1168/

pkill one works OK for me:

ps x | grep 8000
# gives me some process ids, pick the one at the top
pkill -TERM -P <pid>

ls love

Sort by modified time, in reverse:

ls -ltr

git

find first time a bit of text was added in a repo

git log -S <search string> --source --all

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5816177/206297