Break

On the Raspberry Pi Command Line Break CTRL + Break Via SSH Terminal Programs CTRL + C

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FireSSH

FireSSH is a firefox plugin which provides a great SSH interface to a Raspberry Pi over the network.   Sending Break CTRL+C  

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Streaming Video Using VLC Player

Installing VLC Player sudo apt-get install vlc   Streaming The Camera Video Using RTSP Enter the following command to start the streaming: raspivid -o – -t 0 -n | cvlc -vvv stream:///dev/stdin –sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/}' :demux=h264 raspivid is used to capture the video "-o -" causes the output to be written to stdout "-t 0" sets […]

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tar, for zipping files, directories, etc

Show all options tar –help Create Archive Of Specific Files tar -vfcz outputfilename.gz inputfile1 inputfile2 Zipping Files And Directories Use this to move to the directory containing the files and / or directories you want to zip cd projects/myfolder Zip 1 File tar -vczf zip_output_filename.gz file_to_zip.a Zip 2 Files tar -vczf zip_output_filename.gz file_to_zip1.a file_to_zip2.a Zip A […]

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Help

Displaying a programs options Type this on the command line: program_name –help        

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Bash Files

File Extension .sh is typical (but not mandatory) File Contents The file should start with: #!/bin/bash If there is a problem with the interpreter being found type error message you can see where your systems bash interpreter is by typing "which bash" on the command line. Blank lines are fine. Use the # character for […]

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Sleep

Can be useful when chainging commands together in scripts etc: sleep 5 Will ause a pause of 5 second    

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C++ Basic String Functions

  #include <string.h> strcpy – Copy string into string strcpy(s1, s2); Copies string s2 into string s1. strcat – Add string to end of string strcat(s1, s2); Concatenates string s2 onto the end of string s1. strlen – Get string length strlen(s1); Returns the length of string s1. strcmp – Compare strings strcmp(s1, s2); Returns 0 […]

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