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, March 16, 2013

Identify available printer names

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Some machines have access to more than one printer. Unless the default printer is the one you want, you need to know the name of the prin...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Deciphering mysql error codes

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I was tasked to upgrade the mysql server running on the Centos server. Of course, the first thing I should do was to backup my database. ...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Auto fill in ssh client parameters

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I often ssh to different servers, both at work and at home. Often, the Linux account name is different according to which server I'm log...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Splitting up is easy for a PDF file

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Occasionally, I needed to extract some pages from a multi-page pdf document. Suppose you have a 6-page pdf document named myoldfile.pdf . ...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Convert units of measurement

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How do you convert from 1 measurement unit to another unit? Say from kilometers to miles. I can always look it up on that fridge magnet. T...
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