Free Nero alternatives

Tired of using Nero? or just looking around for best, free alternative for Nero CD/DVD Burner. Nero is one of the best softwre out ther for CD/DVD burning but it proves to cost quite high plus for some time now have gathered some bulk because of added features.

Below I've listed some of the best, free alternatives I can find.

1. Infrarecorder




This is what I'm currently using for my office laptop, since I need not install it plus is has all you might expect in a CD/DVD Burning software like Nero. It's also simple and straightforward. This free software's highlights are as follows:




* Support for Multi-Session
* Very Light on Resources
* Support for not just ISO, but also BIN and CUE images
* Burning on Dual Layer DVDs is supported


2. CDBurnerXP

I guess this is the most popular free alternative for Nero but I listed it second here since I'm more for simplicity and ease of use. It's highlights are:




* Multi Language Interface
* Support for Blu Ray/HD DVD
* BIN > ISO converter included
















3.Burn At Once

This is also a great CD/DVD Burning application that can copy discs on the fly but hasn't updated for a while now. Has these features:







* Tagging of media by importing data from FreeDB
* Multi Language Support
* Drag and Drop Interface

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UNIX Find stuff

Here are some UNIX find command samples I've gathered and used for some time. I've noticed that most "new" UNIX users/admins tend to search for how to use the find UNIX command. Hope this helps.


Look for programs with no executable on disk:

file /proc/[0-9]*/exe | grep '(deleted)'

Files with SUID bit set:

find / -user root -perm -4000 -ls

Files with SUID & SGID bit set:

find / -user root -perm -6000 -ls

Find files older than 5 days and remove them:

find . -mtime +5 -type f -exec rm \{\} \;

Files with suspect UID or GID values and save to a file:

find / ! '(' -fstype proc -o -fstype nfs ')' '(' -nouser -o -nogroup ')' -ls 2>/dev/null >>/some/file/to/save

remove some files:

find . -type f \( -name \*.200??????? -o -name \*200????? \) -exec rm {} \;

Directories using a large amount of disk:

find . -type d -exec du -sh \{\} \; | grep [0-9]G

change do transport to 0 for all files in a dir:

for f in *; do sed 's/DO_TRANSPORT=1/DO_TRANSPORT=0/'< $f >bobit; mv bobit $f; done

tar.gz a file to a remote system:

tar -czf - . | ssh user@host "cat >/export/home/user/baldrick/opt-partition.tar.gz"

find directories that are using a lot of space:

find . -type d -exec du -sh \{\} \; | grep [0-9]G

fix permissions on tx releases:

grep ^cp releaseOP2187.0.sh | grep -v { | awk '{print $4}' | xargs -i chown nobody:nogroup \{\}
grep ^cp releaseOP2187.0.sh | grep -v { | awk '{print $4}' | xargs -i chmod o-r \{\}

add a -p option to the cp command on some lines in a file:

cat releaseOP2112.0.sh.orig | perl -ne '(/^cp.(\".*\})$/) ? (print "cp -p $1\n") : (print $_)' >releaseOP2112.0.sh

fast find - use as >> ff ch09 <<>

alias ff "find . -name '*\!{*}' -ls"

find different types of files and dirs and do something different with each type

find . \( -type d -a -exec chmod 771 {} \; \) -o \
\( -name "*.BAK" -a -exec chmod 600 {} \; \) -o
\ \( -name "*.sh" -a -exec chmod 755 {} \; \) -o
\ \( -name "*.txt" -a -exec chmod 644 {} \; \)

duplicate an empty directory tree from an existing tree

find . -type d -print | sed 's@^@/new/dir/tree/@' | xargs mkdir

alias to find files in the current dir

alias find. 'find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( \!* -print \)'
alias find.ls 'find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( \!* -ls \)'

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