There are many useful Linux tips that make the life of a Linux user much easier. One is for the VI or VIM editor. To open a file at a specific line; use this command. homer@deusexmachina ~/Documents/yadex-1.7.901 $ vim src/x11.h +33homer@deusexmachina ~/Documents/yadex-1.7.901 $ vim src/x11.h +33 This will open the…
Read MoreI have just setup FreeBSD with a high resolution framebuffer console easily. I just typed vidcontrol -i mode to list all available framebuffer video modes and then I set the appropriate mode for my laptop screen. I then added this line to the /etc/rc.conf file: allscreens_flags=”MODE_332″. This sets a 1366*768…
Read MoreI have just installed OpenSolaris UNIX in VMware. First impressions really are good; the LiveCD environment works very well indeed. The Gnome desktop is a breath of fresh air compared to the crap Unity desktop that comes with Ubuntu 14.10. Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is the default web browser; this…
Read MoreThe original UNIX programmers created a bug in the early UNIX code 40 years ago. This code had the side effect of making files starting with a dot hidden to the normal ls command. This was adopted as a ‘feature’. Nowadays, the dotfile is the standard way of hiding configuration…
Read MoreFind all files larger than 1 megabyte in a directory. find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +1M -printf "%f:%s\n" | sort -t":" -k2find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +1M -printf "%f:%s\n" | sort -t":" -k2 Search a file for a certain string. grep "hello" my.txtgrep "hello" my.txt Get…
Read MoreThere are a few very useful UNIX commands available on the Apple Macintosh. Mountain Lion is what I am using in Virtualbox and I am having a look at some very useful shell commands and tips. The iostat command. This shows statistics of disk Input/Output. Homers-iMac:Documents homer$ iostat disk0 disk1…
Read MoreSome awesome themes and wallpapers for the Linux Mint MATE desktop Themes http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LiNsta+3+%28Linux+is+Not+Vista%29?content=44570 Linux is not Vista. A Windows Vista styled theme for Gnome and MATE. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/MacOS-X+Aqua+Theme?content=13548. Mac OSX Aqua theme for MATE. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Murrine+GTK%2B+Cairo+Engine?content=42755. Murrine GTK+ Cairo Engine. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Faenza-Cupertino?content=129008. Faenza-Cupertino icon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/OSX-Nostalgie?content=157390. OSX Nostalgia icon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/E17gtk?content=163472. E17 GTK….
Read MoreI am using this command to search the Internet for open ports on port 80 with nmap. sudo nmap -sS -iR 0 -p 80 -oG nmap.grepablesudo nmap -sS -iR 0 -p 80 -oG nmap.grepable Then I use this command in another terminal tab to view the updating file. This will…
Read MoreI am having a quick look at the Macintosh OSX desktop on an Apple Macintosh computer and the interface is very annoying indeed. The Finder does find files; but most of the results are not what you were looking for. And to take a screenshot you have to use quite…
Read MoreThis Linux command will copy the text file given, “myfile.txt” and send it to the sprunge.us website. This allows you to share a text file with others without too much fuss. curl -F ‘sprunge=<myfile.txt’ http://sprunge.uscurl -F ‘sprunge=<myfile.txt’ http://sprunge.us You may also install the PastebinCL utility on Fedora 19, this allows…
Read MoreGetting the weather forecast for your US postcode is very simple when you are running either Ubuntu or Linux Mint. The weather-util package contains the weather command that makes this possible. Use this command to install the weather-util package. sudo apt-get install weather-utilsudo apt-get install weather-util This is the output…
Read MoreThe new Playstation 4 console will have the FreeBSD operating system running on it. This will provide a solid UNIX base for the gaming platform. The actual name of the operating system that will power the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a Sony spin of FreeBSD 9.0. It’s…
Read Morehttp://gentoomen.org/tutorials/resources.html. The gentoomen.org resources page. Very good list of links to various tutorials and help pages. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/. The Advanced BASH scripting guide. ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/doc/book/vimbook-OPL.pdf. The VIM guideboook. http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/programming.html. 3000 useful guides to programming and Linux documentation and help pages. http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html. How to be a programmer. A short but comprehensive summary. http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index….
Read MoreTo create a new swapfile on your Linux machine to complement the existing /swap partition; the dd command will come in handy. This command will create the swap file as a loopback filesystem. adeptus-mechanicus ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=524288adeptus-mechanicus ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=524288 This command…
Read MoreThere are many Linux commands that are available on Android devices when you are using the terminal emulator app. Firstly the ls command. This is used to list files in a directory. Then the cat command; this is used to view the contents of a text file. The mv command…
Read MoreThe new release of the NetBSD UNIX distribution has just been released. This distribution based on the 4.4BSD operating system gives the user a super secure and reliable server operating system that is fully capable of powering an Apache http server; a mail server or MySQL database. This operating system…
Read MoreThe kernel in an operating system is the interface that handles loading drivers and configuring hardware; the operating system that runs on top of the kernel provides a usable interface; i.e a command-line or graphical user interface that the computer operator may use to interface with the computer system and…
Read MoreThe usage of computers in movies has always been quite hit and miss. The Matrix Reloaded movie had realistic depictions of the usage of the NMAP port scanning command and the use of the ssh command to login remotely to the target machine and execute commands to shutdown the power…
Read MoreThe Linux sleep command will enable you to pause a Linux command for a short time. The example below has our command halting for 5 seconds before executing. The suffix s means seconds, this is useful for halting a script whilst you are waiting for something else to run. C:\HOME\FLYNN\DESKTOP>…
Read MoreFlynn using the UNIX machine in the TRON legacy movie. He is logging in with a user that does not have a home directory defined so the / folder is used instead. This is what happens with a Linux system as well. The second screen-shot shows the /bin/history command being…
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