As you probably know Google Chrome has its own internal DNS cache. Is there a way to clear it without having to wait for the time out or close the browser? Answer Navigate to chrome://net-internals/#dns and press the “Clear host cache” button. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Mee , Answer Author : Community
I’m using curl at the command line on Linux to issue HTTP requests. The response bodies are printed to standard out, which is fine, but I can’t see from the man page how to get curl to print the HTTP status code from the response (404, 403 etc). Is this possible? Answer This should work … Read more
My kids (4 and 5) yell a lot when playing games on the computer. I found an effective cure for this. When I hear loud noises, I ssh into the game computer and do: chvt 3; sleep 15; chvt 7 This will turn off the screen for 15 seconds on Linux. I’ve told them that … Read more
How can I sort the output of ls by last modified date? Answer ls -t or (for reverse, most recent at bottom): ls -tr The ls man page describes this in more details, and lists other options. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Community , Answer Author : Tamara Wijsman
I just started using tmux, and I really like it, but I need to be able to scroll within the buffers/panes/windows I have open. I don’t care if it works with the mouse or not. When I search the tmux man page, I find only two instances of the word “scroll” even showing up, and … Read more
I’ve inherited an old PC from my girlfriend’s dad and when setting up the printer I got a bit of a surprise: Two questions spring to mind here: Why does Windows think my wireless keyboard is a toaster? Why does Windows even have an icon for a toaster in the devices menu? Answer Reason 1 … Read more
How can I make a POST request with the cURL command-line tool? Answer With fields: curl –data “param1=value1¶m2=value2” https://example.com/resource.cgi With fields specified individually: curl –data “param1=value1” –data “param2=value2” https://example.com/resource.cgi Multipart: curl –form “fileupload=@my-file.txt” https://example.com/resource.cgi Multipart with fields and a filename: curl –form “fileupload=@my-file.txt;filename=desired-filename.txt” –form param1=value1 –form param2=value2 https://example.com/resource.cgi Without data: curl –data ” https://example.com/resource.cgi curl … Read more
