Man, this is heavy linux/unix commandline fun:
which which
locate locate
man man
help help
info info
whatis whatis
echo echo
touch touch
yes yes
whereis whereis
All of them work without error (unless the programm is not installed or does not work of course)
With nice and time …
Today I bothered to intall the Last.fm player just to give it a try. The installation (on my Kubuntu 5.10 Linux laptop) was very easy. I just downloaded a tarball with the Linux binary from the Last.fm player download page and extracted it to a local folder …
With the shortcut alt+F2 in KDE you invoke the "run command" dialog (also accessible from the start menu if it's not hidden of course). It is a fast and easy way to launch an application if you know its command line name (which is mostly the same as its …
Consider a program hello_and_error that writes to both stdout and to stderr. To redirect both to stdout:
hello_and_error 2>&1
If you want to redirect both to the same file hello.txt you can do in bash the following:
hello_and_error &> hello.txt
If you …
If you work in a Linux desktop environment/windows manager like KDE, Gnome, IceWM (and probably many others), you definitely should try the following mouse trick: click/drag while holding <alt> above a (not maximized) application window. Depending on the mouse button and the windows manager this should move or …
When you want get rid of some files, but fully deleting them is bit drastic, a trash can is an handy option. In a graphical environment the tools are there to do it (drag and drop, right mouse button on a file, etc.), but on the command line it is …
Ever wondered about the difference between ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile,
~/.profile, /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc (and maybe others)
and what their purposes are? I do.
Some interesting excerpts from the bash manpage:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the
--loginoption …
While I'm a KDE user, I still use some Gnome appliciations or other applications with a GTK interface (the gimp, synaptic, firefox and thunderbird for example). Their default skin when running under KDE (on my Kubuntu Linux system) was a bit ugly in my humble opinion, not to say it …
Working on the command line shell typically involves using the same argument of the previous command. In bash there is a trick to save you those boring keystrokes. When you use "!$" (called bang dollar-sign ) in a command, bash will expand it to the last argument of the previous command. A …
A nice feature of working in X on Linux is copy/paste by selecting (copy) and pressing the middle mouse button (paste). When I'm sometimes forced to work in Windows I realise how much it replaced my old ctrl-c/ctrl-v habit. I also use the trick with Mozilla Firefox to …