Tag: bash

Posted on

How to build and use telegram-cli client for Linux

You can actually send Telegram message from command-line interface / bash in Linux using an unofficial “telegram-cli“ client by Vitali Valtman (vysheng)

Obtaining and Compiling telegram-cli

But first, before sending telegram messages, you need to build the client. You may start by installing its dependencies

 sudo git apt-get install libreadline-dev libconfig-dev libssl-dev lua5.2 liblua5.2-dev libevent-dev libjansson-dev libpython-dev make

Then, you can get the latest telegram-cli client from vysheng GitHub

 git clone --recursive https://github.com/vysheng/tg.git && cd tg

Afterwards, you may configure ‘telegram-cli’ and compile it

./configure
make

Alternative Download
Alternatively, you can download Telegram source code from my server:

  1. https://mypapit.net/pub/telegram-cli/tg.tar.bz2
  2. https://mypapit.net/pub/telegram-cli/tg.tar.xz

 

Running telegram-cli

After finished compiling telegram-cli, you may try and start using telegram.

bin/telegram-cli -k tg-server.pub

For first time use, you may need to key in the authorization code, the code will be sent to your mobile device to allow ‘telegram-cli’ to log as your username.

bin/telegram-cli -u  -k tg-server.pub

In my experience you may need to replace the +[country_code] phone-number with ’00’. so if your phone number includes country code is +60123456789, then you must replace it with 0060123456789 (however, your mileage may vary.

bin/telegram-cli -u 00123456789 -k tg-server.pub

Once the authorization CODE has been entered, you are free to use telegram. Telegram use the concept of ‘peer’ (contact) to send messages instead of phone number. So in order to get a list of your peer, you need to run “contact_list” command.

telegram-cli-contact-list

> contact_list
John_T_Doe
Jane_doe_2
Warrick_Brown
Mark_Nelson

To send message to a peer/contact (for example to Warrick Brown), just type

> msg Warrick_Brown "wassup, dude? want to hang out today?"

To quit, you can type

#telegram-client
> safe_quit

NOTE: IF YOU FAIL TO COMPILE TELEGRAM FROM GITHUB
If you find it difficult or failed to compile telegram-cli from GitHub, then you can download this telegram-cli source code from my server which is tested to compile under Raspbian Jessie, Debian Jessie, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Alternative Telegram source code:

  1. https://mypapit.net/pub/telegram-cli/tg.tar.bz2
  2. https://mypapit.net/pub/telegram-cli/tg.tar.xz
Posted on

iotop: How to monitor processes that hogs hard disk writes

iotop is a small and handy tool to monitor processes that hogs I/O resources. iotop outputs is similar to ‘top’ except it lists the hard disk read/write activity as well as swap writes.

You can use the left and write key to sort the heading according to your preference and the R key can be used to reverse the sort. The ‘O’ key is used when you only wants it to display processes that are currently utilizing the disk I/O. While the ‘P’ key can be used to display accumulated IO disk read/write for all the processes (which can be sorted with the arrow keys).

Posted on

How to make sudo display funny error messages in Ubuntu Linux

sudo is probably the most used command in Ubuntu.

In this post, I will show you how to make ‘sudo’ display funny and humorous error messages in Ubuntu Linux.

To do that, you would only need to edit the /etc/sudoers :

sudo nano /etc/sudoers

Then find the line that starts with Defaults env_reset, add insults at the end of the line so it would look like this:

# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file
#
Defaults env_reset, insults

Save the file, and you are done! You can test the results by running the sudo command and entering the wrong password.

Screenshot Demo

sudo insults

Posted on

Generate QR Code in Ubuntu Linux

You can easily generate QR Code under Ubuntu using the command line ‘qrencode’ package. In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, you can install qrencode using this command:

apt-get install qrencode

To generate QR Code image, you only need to run this command:
qrencode -l L -v 1 -o qrcode-test.png "Hello, World!"

QR Code is a form of 2 dimensional barcode which can store arbitary text data including URL, email or plain text. For more information, please refer to the QR Code Wikipedia Entry

Posted on

Easy File Encryption On Ubuntu Linux with OpenSSL

Here’s an easy way to encrypt your file using OpenSSL. The general syntax is:


openssl enc (cipher) -e -in (input file) -out (output file)

so to encrypt a “plaintext.txt” file, using aes256, you only need to run this command:

openssl enc aes256 -e -in plaintext.txt -out encrypted.txt

Similarly, to decrypt the file, you can run the command:

openssl enc aes256 -d -in encrypted.txt -out decrypted.txt