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CLI Ways to Transfer file Part I

 CLI options: file.io Easy to use API Try it out: $ curl -F "file=@test.txt" https://file.io {"success":true,"key":"2ojE41","link":"https://file.io/2ojE41","expiry":"14 days"} $ curl https://file.io/2ojE41 This is a test $ curl https://file.io/2ojE41 {"success":false,"error":404,"message":"Not Found"} Or set an expiration: $ curl -F "file=@test.txt" https://file.io/?expires=1w {"success":true,"key":"aQbnDJ","link":"https://file.io/aQbnDJ","expiry":"7 days"} $ sleep 604801 $ curl https://file.io/aQbnDJ {"success":false,"error":404,"message":"Not Found"} The query param  expires  must be a positive integer which, by default, represents the number of days until the file will be deleted (defaults to 14 days). If you follow it with  w , it will be the num

How to update -grub from live-CD

 In order to update the grub configuration of the machine that you might be misconfigured and unable to boot up properly you could use live CD to boot into the machine, however, even if you are able to update the /etc/default/grub file, you will need to perform the "sudo update-grub" command to effect the change. if you are using Live CD to login, you need to perform the following steps: First mount the root directory in question for my case it is my /dev/sda so it is it will be /dev/sda2 as mostly sda1 is for the /boot/efi partition. You will mount the root partition as follow: sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt Then mount a few more directories that are needed: sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc How can you tell if you have a boot partition? Once you have your Ubuntu partition mounted, open  /mnt/etc/fstab . If you see an entry for  /boot , note which device it is pointing to ( /dev/sda4  maybe?). This is the one you hav