Fix corrupted console font on Kali Linux 2021.1

Fix corrupted console font on Kali Linux 2021.1
I have installed Kali Linux on a VM with 512 MB memory and 2 vCPU using network installer. The installation was uneventful but my first login shows the following:

It is not pretty, so to fix it do:

$: sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Then select:

• UTF-8
• Guess optimal character set
• Terminus
• 8x16

Select different font type as appropriate.

It should now look much better

Keywords: Kali, Linux, Console, garbled, corrupted, text

Delete files in a directory that is older than specified

Delete all files in C:\temp which was older than 04/14/2013.

c:\temp> forfiles /D -04/13/2013 -c "cmd /c rmdir /s /q @file"

Piping pslist or tslist to findstr

If you are are a console junkie and you frequently play around or look around what is running in your system you may find that using TaskManager can be time consuming and limiting. So I looked around and found a way to use pslist (from Windows Sysinternals) or tslist ( a built in command line ).

The command below means to show information about a process running on "remote_machine" with process name of python.exe

D:\><path_to_pslist>pslist.exe \\remote_machine | findstr python.exe

This one is using the built in tslist command. Same as before, we want to query for a process named python.exe on "remote_machine."

D:\> tslist /S remote_machine | findstr python

~ts