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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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Clear screen without losing the current command

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The command clear clears the screen. An alternative way to clear the terminal screen is through a shortcut: Control-L. Control-L gives yo...

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Go to next/previous word on the command line

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I have been looking for a way to move forward and backward on the command line by bigger chunks than just character by character. Something...

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Save your command for later execution

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Sometimes, you change your mind when you are in the middle of typing in a command at the command prompt. You don't want to execute the ...

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Super Fast way to open a file for vi at a given line

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Sometimes, you know the line you want to edit in a file, and you just need to open the file and get to that line. For example, you just ha...

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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Create File of a Given Size

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Last week, I needed to test the speed of my VPN connection. My plan was to create a file of some given size (say 10M), and test copy it to ...

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