SSH From Windows Command Prompt

The title says it all. I had this question from one of my buddies earlier today. First, you'll need PuTTY installed in the Windows machine.

If we navigate to PuTTY directory, we are able to see there is a piece of executable called plink.exe. This would enable you to SSH directly to any devices (of course the ones that support SSH) from Windows command prompt.

The executable is invoked for SSH to target devices using the below syntax example:

Hope this helps for command line peoples out there!

Getting Notepad++ Installed In Your Linux Distribution

When dealing with scripts, you'll need a better text editor to work on the fly. I've been using Windows previously, and Notepad++ is a good text editor to get me going around scripts. Moving recently to Linux, you can't get Notepad++, but you may use Notepadqq as an alternative.

Here are the steps to install this piece of text editor. First, add the required repo to get the installer:

root@ubuntu:/home/fwnh67# add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq
 Notepadqq text editor
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~notepadqq-team/+archive/ubuntu/notepadqq
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpgrega6w7/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpgrega6w7/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 63DE9CD4 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpgrega6w7/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 63DE9CD4: public key "Launchpad PPA for Notepadqq Team" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Once the repo has been added, update the repo lists.

root@ubuntu:/home/fwnh67# apt-get update

After that, fetch the installer and installed the software.

root@ubuntu:/home/fwnh67# apt-get install notepadqq
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  notepadqq-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  notepadqq notepadqq-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 239 not upgraded.
Need to get 950 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,446 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu/ trusty/main notepadqq-common all 0.50.6-0~trusty1 [695 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu/ trusty/main notepadqq amd64 0.50.6-0~trusty1 [255 kB]
Fetched 950 kB in 6s (136 kB/s)                                               
Selecting previously unselected package notepadqq-common.
(Reading database ... 166254 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../notepadqq-common_0.50.6-0~trusty1_all.deb ...
Unpacking notepadqq-common (0.50.6-0~trusty1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package notepadqq.
Preparing to unpack .../notepadqq_0.50.6-0~trusty1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking notepadqq (0.50.6-0~trusty1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up notepadqq-common (0.50.6-0~trusty1) ...
Setting up notepadqq (0.50.6-0~trusty1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/notepadqq/notepadqq.sh to provide /usr/bin/notepadqq (notepadqq) in auto mode

And you're done!