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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreInstall 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…
Read MoreBelow 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…
Read MoreAre 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…
Read MoreI 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…
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