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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Friday, February 27, 2015

How to update a MySQL table with data from itself

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Suppose I want to update a MySQL table with data that refers to the same table. To make it easier to follow along, I will use the following ...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

What to do next after spinning up a Debian VPS

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Recently, I opened an unmanaged VPS hosting account with Digital Ocean (of which I am an affiliate), and created a barebone Debian virtual ...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

How to run multiple simultaneous X Window sessions

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If you share your Linux desktop machine with other users, you may occasionally need to switch from 1 X session to another. For example, you ...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Learning command arguments using ExplainShell.com

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Suppose you come across the following command in a script. You are not quite sure what it does. Specifically, you want to know the meaning o...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Using gdebi to install and resolve dependencies for a local deb file

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Debian comes with over 37,500 packages in its default distribution. Yet, occasionally, we still need to install a package which has not mad...
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