Monthly Archive for May, 2012

Linux change MAC-Address

Tiny howto for changing the MAC-Address of your hardware network interface (NIC). If a special firewall accept packets only from a special MAC-Address, with this work around you will trick it out to accept packets from your NIC:

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/etc/init.d/networking stop

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Find duplicate files by size

Find the same files by their size:

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ls -l | awk '$1!~/^d/{if(size[$5]!=""){ print}size[$5]=$8}'

Very useful to delete duplicate photos or videos.