Linux Commando

Initially a Linux command-line interface blog, it has evolved to cover increasingly more GUI app topics. Instead of just giving you information like some man page, I illustrate their usage in real-life scenarios.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

grep with color output

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grep is capable of color-highlighting the matched string in its output. But, by default, that option is turned off. $ grep abc a_file.txt ab...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

The find / xargs Linux command-pipe

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My task at hand is to delete all backup files ("*~") located anywhere in my home directory hierarchy. $ find /home/peter -name *~...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Crunch numbers

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You can crunch numbers on the command line using the command "bc". Instead of firing up a GUI-based calculator application, you ...

Shred it!

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Have a top-secret file that you want to delete? A file that you don't want to recover by you or anyone else? Use the shred command: #...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Dictionary Lookup via Command Line

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#curl dict://dict.org/d:YourWord To help you remember, d: stands for DEFINE. For example, to look up the word "bash", (all output...
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