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Set up Brother MFC-7820N as network scanner under Kubuntu

Posted on 18 July 2011 by me

I’ve set up my Brother MFC-7820N ages ago to print and scan over the network from Kubuntu. Once in a while the router decides to change the IPs of my network devices. So just as a note to myself, here’s how to set up the scanner again:

check the setup: brsaneconfig2 -q
delete the old entry: brsaneconfig2 -r MFC-7820N
determine new IP (as an exercise for the reader)
set up new entry: brsaneconfig2 -a name=MFC-7820N model=MFC-7820N ip=192.168.1.35

Copy dot files on Linux

Posted on 2 July 2011 by me

The following command can be used to copy dot files (i.e. configuration files starting with a dot, e.g. .bashrc) without copying all the dot directories:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name “.??*” -type f -exec cp -ia ‘{}’ /dest/path \;