Introduction
Here is a collection of Linux commands that I find useful:
- Search for all inp-files that contain the text “PENALTY”
(case insensitive)
grep --include=\*.inp -rnwli ~ -e "PENALTY"
- List what hosts are active on the local network:
arp-scan -l
nmap -sn 192.168.86.0/24
- Debugging a core dump:
gdb executable core
thread apply all bt
- To determine if a Redhat / CentOS computer needs to be rebooted:
sudo needs-restarting -r
- Enable core dumps on Redhat / CentOS. As root type (needs to be done after each reboot):
echo /tmp/core-%e-sig%s-user%u-group%g-pid%p-time%t > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
- Split and combine HUGE files:
split --verbose -b1G file.tar file.tar.
cat file.tar.* > file.tar
- Update PolyUMod and MCalibration files (the
\ before cp runs the command without any alias):
cd PolyUMod_Installer_Lin64_vX.X.X/files
\cp -r -p * /opt/PolymerFEM/
- Run ANSYS in batch mode from a Windows PowerShell:
C:/"Program Files"/"ANSYS Inc"/v192/ansys/bin/winx64/ANSYS192.exe -b -i simulation.dat -o job.output -j job -dis -np 1
- Run LS-DYNA from a terminal:
lsdyna i=file.k jobid=tmp
- Create an animated gif-image from a set of png-images:
convert -delay 150 -loop 0 *png myimage.gif
- Setup vim so that only tabs with a width of 4 are used:
set autoindent noexpandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4
- Take a screen shot of a region in Ubuntu 20.04:
Ctrl + Shift + Print
- Run a Windows installer in debug mode (I know, this is not for Linux, but still useful):
msiexec /i Installer.msi /L*V C:\Temp\log.txt
- When I tried to ANSYS v201 on Ubuntu 20.04 I got error like the following
Syntax error: Bad fd number
I was able to fix that odd error by editing the first line of the following 3 files:
/opt/ansys_inc/v201/ansys/bin/ansysdis
/opt/ansys_inc/v201/ansys/bin/mapdl
/opt/ansys_inc/v201/ansys/bin/anssh.ini
from
#!/bin/sh
to
#!/bin/bash
Now I can run the latest version of ANSYS on the latest version of Ubuntu. Cool.
- Convert many 12-bit tif images to 16-bit images:
for a in *tif; convert $a -depth 16 new_$a
In the comments below, indicate what important (and “tricky”) commands that you would like to add!
