Files Archives - Igor Oseledko

Fuzzy Search with Linux

Igor — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:59:24 +0000

Originally published November 25, 2022 @ 11:01 pmThis is a quick look at several handy utilities that will allow you to find, navigate, and edit directories and files easily. This overview includes such tools as fzf, rg, fd-find, bat, and the fzf.vim plugin for VIM. The fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. . The […]

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Appending Filenames

Igor — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:16 +0000

Originally published November 17, 2019 @ 11:39 amIf you google how to append, say, current timestamp to the filename in Bash, almost every suggestion boils down to something really basic along the lines of mv $somefile $somefile_$(date +'Y%-%m-%d'). Technically, this is correct and, yet, this is not what was needed. Most filenames have extensions that […]

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Renaming Files with exiftool, Part II

Igor — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:55:54 +0000

Originally published October 22, 2022 @ 1:42 pmIn the first part of this article, I went over the details of a process for renaming photos to include the geographic location in the filename. Some people asked if the same can be done for videos, and the answer is “probably.” Earlier this year, I went on […]

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Copying File Attributes Across Servers

Igor — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:34:36 +0000

Originally published August 28, 2019 @ 2:10 pmTo make long story short, had to fix someone’s chmod -R 777 /. A late-night copy-paste fail, it would seem. Needless to say, console access is required, as SSH will not work with permissions on keys wide open. A prerequisite for the process below is to have a […]

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Copying Data in a Restricted Environment

Igor — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:31:08 +0000

Originally published August 9, 2019 @ 8:02 pmConsider this not-so-hypothetical scenario: you have some data on server_a that you would like to copy to server_b. Unfortunately, these two servers cannot communicate with each other. Nor do they have access to any common network-mounted storage. Bummer. I do have a jumpbox from which I can SSH […]

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Working with ffmpeg on Multi-Core Systems

Igor — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 02:33:39 +0000

Originally published August 1, 2019 @ 9:25 pmWhile ffmpeg has multithreading capability, getting the best performance on multi-core systems calls for something more than just playing with the -threads option. I’ve seen suggestions to set the -threads option to 1.5 the number of cores, which doesn’t make any sense. The most common choice for this […]

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Squeezing Video Files

Igor — Wed, 14 May 2025 00:18:03 +0000

Originally published May 14, 2019 @ 1:59 pmAll that crap I’ve been saving from YouTube, Facebook and whatnot tends to add up. As quality is not a huge concern here (not that it was very high to begin with), optimizing those video files can recover a surprisingly significant amount of disk space. If you have […]

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File Compression Testing

Igor — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:05:52 +0000

Originally published January 27, 2019 @ 5:01 pmFor some reason I haven’t used zip much on Linux, sticking to the standard tar/gzip combo. But zip seems to be a viable alternative. While not as space-efficient, it is definitely faster; syntax is simple; and, if you need to share the archive with a Windows user, he […]

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Resizing Photos for Instagram

Igor — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:46:00 +0000

Originally published December 12, 2021 @ 3:24 amInstagram is being a pain in the neck by limiting support to specific aspect ratios. Currently, you can only upload photos of no less than a 4/5 ratio for portrait mode and the peculiar 16/8.377 ratio for landscape shots, which is just a smidgen over the standard 16/9. […]

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Find Large Folders

Igor — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:22:21 +0000

Originally published October 21, 2018 @ 6:19 pmWhen you get a filesystem space alert (and they tend to arrive at 3:37 on Saturday morning), deleting various supersized log files is one option I already covered in adequate detail. That is if you get so lucky as to find such a file to delete… On occasion, […]

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