#ziktips — Public Fediverse posts
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💡 Calculate the number of days since a given date (e.g. 30 June 2025) on a Linux system:
echo $(( ( $(date +%s) - $(date -d "2025-06-30" +%s) ) / 86400 ))
@opensuse @fedora @debian #ZikTIPs #Linuxtips #LinuxTechTips #Linux #FOSS #Opensource
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💡Use iperf3 to measure the network throughput between two Linux nodes effortlessly as follows: @fedora @opensuse
On server: iperf3 -s
On client: iperf3 -c <SERVER_IP>
#ZikTIPS #Linuxtips $Networking #LinuxTechTips #Linux #Opensource
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💡 Record audio from a microphone on a Linux system using gstreamer @gstreamer @fedora @opensuse @archlinux
gst-launch-1.0 alsasrc ! audioconvert ! lamemp3enc ! filesink location=recorded.mp3
#ZikTIPs #pipewire #pulseaudio #techtips #Linuxtips #LinuxTechTips #Linux #Opensource
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💡 Use the following Linux command to create a file with a specific access and modification timestamp @fedora @opensuse @archlinux
touch -t [FILE]
e.g. For a file named mytalk.txt March 10, 2025 at 9AM:
touch -t 202503100900 mytalk.txt
To verify:
stat -c "%x%y" mytalk.txt.