From Sukimashita

This page should provide a list of small but powerful mini-guides to certain tools that can efficiently increase your productiviy.

[edit] hexdump: format strings explained

As the manual of hexdump seems a bit hard to understand I wonder why they didn't include such an example:

$ hexdump -e ' [iterations]/[byte_count] "[format string]" '

As you might guess, this means apply format string to groups of byte_count bytes, iterations times. Format string is like printf.

You can of course chain multiple formats together, or put them in a file. So say you needed to clag some binary data into a C array, a-la firmware for loading into a driver. You could use

$ hexdump -v -e '6/4 "0x%08x, "' -e '"\n"' ./dump

to get something that fits in 80 columns and is almost ready to go.

[edit] sshfs: mount remote filesystem using ssh and fuse

NOTE: If you use GNOME, simple use the "Connect to Server..." > "SSH" functionality.

sshfs is a simple client tool which enables you to easily mount remote filesystems over ssh into your local system.

• Make sure to have FUSE running and create a mountpoint

su
modprobe fuse
mkdir /media/sshfs
chown root:users /media/sshfs
chmod g+w /media/sshfs

• Mount remote system

sshfs [<username>@]<hostname>:[<remotepath>] <localmountpath>
...
sshfs parishilton@hilton.com:~/pictures/naked /media/sshfs

• Enjoy accessing the remote filesystem transparently

ls /media/sshfs
...

• Unmount

fusermount -u /media/sshfs

The cool thing is that you can do this over the internet and for instance stream a movie file while even being able to seek in it!