Command Line

This page is for reminders of how to do things on the command line.

Books

Links

tldp.org Linux Commands This is a PDF and therefore could put it on iPad for reading.


When an SDcard is not recognised by the laptop

The image below shows the command to use to fix the problem.

diskutil fix SDcard

I must look into what these Hit and Get lines mean.

andrew@macbookpro2015:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [140 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease [54.0 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports/main Sources.diff/Index [63.3 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports/main Sources T-2026-02-02-0159.44-F-2026-02-02-0159.44.pdiff [1,065 B]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports/main Sources T-2026-02-02-0159.44-F-2026-02-02-0159.44.pdiff [1,065 B]
Fetched 306 kB in 0s (1,260 kB/s)
4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
andrew@macbookpro2015:~$
andrew@macbookpro2015:~$ sudo apt list --upgradable
gimp-data/stable-security 3.0.4-3+deb13u5 all [upgradable from: 3.0.4-3+deb13u4]
gimp/stable-security 3.0.4-3+deb13u5 amd64 [upgradable from: 3.0.4-3+deb13u4]
gir1.2-gimp-3.0/stable-security 3.0.4-3+deb13u5 amd64 [upgradable from: 3.0.4-3+deb13u4]
libgimp-3.0-0/stable-security 3.0.4-3+deb13u5 amd64 [upgradable from: 3.0.4-3+deb13u4]
andrew@macbookpro2015:~$

Disks

Mounting a partition info at this link dos2unix post on linux forum.

My MacBook Terminal

I have installed "MacPorts". Using this program I have installed "exiftools".

Here is a link to a guide for using MacPorts