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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Monday, November 26, 2007

Use of --parents flag in mkdir and cp

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Occasionally, you want to create a directory structure several levels deep. For example, /home/peter/status/2007/november. Your first attemp...

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

sudo hacks: making cd and redirection work

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Suppose you want to run a command that requires root privileges. Conventional wisdom says don't login as root. Instead, login as a non...

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Monday, November 19, 2007

How to Look Up a Process

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You can look up a process in many ways. Often, you have the name of a daemon, command, or a program, and you want to know its process ID. ...

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

How to Scroll the Command Window

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How many times have you been annoyed by the command output spanning over the length of the window? If the window is in the X-Window environ...

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Get into the right groups

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In Linux, belonging to the right group gives you permission to use restricted-access resources. When you create a new user, by default, $...

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