ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage

Hello everyone! 👋 This is a short article about a handy tool called ncdu. The tool helps you delete files and directories from your filesystem. I use it daily to clear junk files from my workstation and the servers that I’m working on. 🧹 The way it works is quite simple: Navigate to the directory you want to clean and type ncdu. Select and delete files and directories. Be cautious ⚠️ with what you’re deleting. Once you delete a file, it’s gone for real. 🗑️ ...

December 11, 2023 · 1 min · Denis Nutiu

fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder 🌸

Hi 👋, fzf is a command line tool that can be used to fuzzy search files, history, and command outputs. Check out the Github repository. This is a tool that I wish I’ve knew about earlier in my career, and for this reason I decided to blog about it. You can also set key bindings; some popular ones are: CTRL-T – Paste the selected files and directories onto the command-line ...

September 22, 2021 · 1 min · Denis Nuțiu

Introduction to Pyenv for Linux Users

Hello, In this article I will introduce you to pyenv, a tool for managing python environments. Installing pyenv is pretty straight forward, you’ll need to clone the repo and add the binaries to the path. For a typical Debian based distro using the Zsh shell the instructions would be: git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc Then, in order for this to take effect, you need to reload the shell with: source ~/.zshrc, or just restart your terminal. 😀 ...

June 27, 2020 · 4 min · Denis Nuțiu

Brute-forcing passwords with Hydra

Hello, In this article you will find the solutions for the Hydra room on Try Hack Me. Link: Almost every bruteforcing or cracking task from HackTheBox/TryHackMe uses the rockyou.txt wordlist. You can google it and download it, if you can’t find it in your Kali distro under the path /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt.gz If you’re using Kali then you have Hydra already installed, all you have to do is run two commands: Flag 1 Run the following command, the password should be cracked in less than one minute. ...

February 29, 2020 · 1 min · Denis Nuțiu