Print a lost of information about your current terminal using the tcsh shell and a nice command. Yog-Sothoth:~> telltc Tcsh thinks your terminal has the following characteristics: It has 217 columns and 55 lines It has a meta key It can not use tabs It has automatic margins It has magic margins send … Read more
How to use noclobber with the tcsh shell on UNIX and Linux This example using the set noclobber command prevents existing files from being overwritten. 2:04am ubuntu /home/ubuntu ~> set noclobber2:04am ubuntu /home/ubuntu ~> set noclobber Now if I try to redirect to the file, this happens. 2:04am ubuntu /home/ubuntu ~> echo "" > chan.c … Read more
Install the tcsh shell on Ubuntu Linux easily with this simple guide The tcsh shell for Linux is a free but enhanced version of the old Berkeley UNIX C shell (csh). This is a very good alternative to the standard bash shell that most Linux machines come with. Download the tarball of the most recent … Read more
Below we see output of the ls command when listing a directory. The –color=auto parameter allows the use of color if your terminal supports it. And since everyone either uses Konsole or Gnome Terminal; this command will always work. I am using zsh at the moment; but this works with just about any shell. ls … Read more
Are you wanting to create an alias and you want to see how they are done? Well a Linux distribution should come with some aliases that are already created for you and you can type the alias ls command to see how one is created. ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alias ls alias ls=’ls –color=auto’ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alias ls alias ls=’ls … Read more
I have just found out that the Nexus 7 tablet now has an Ubuntu distribution that is working on that tablet computer. The Unity desktop does not seem to be very stable on this device though; it would be better to develop a proper tablet touch oriented interface like the Windows 8 Metro interface; the … Read more