Month: April 2019

wget

Occasionally I run across a site that has a bunch of PDFs that I want to read. This wget lets me download them for later reading.


wget -r -np -l 1 -A pdf http://example.com/pagewithpdf.html

If you want to use the downloaded website for local browsing, you will need to pass a few extra arguments to the command above.

wget -m -k -p https://example.com

Create MariaDB backup

I recently ran across a table that was not able to be read and it occurred to me that I should be archiving my database on a regular basis, rather than relying on just the Linode backups that are done nightly.

This command will do it for you:

mysqldump -u root --all-databases | gzip > backup.sql.gz