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Screen Profiles available Ubuntu 9.04

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Interesting article about .screenrc profiles that offer some unique status bars with GNU Screen under Ubuntu 9.04
For any that are interested, this is my .screenrc
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string ‘%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{=kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B}%Y-%m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]‘
#
# Default screens
# syntax: screen -t NameOfScreen ScreenNumber ShellCommand
screen -t “Work SSH” 0 /home/name/workssh
screen -t “Home 1″ 1
screen -t “Home 2″ [...]

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Linux Reference Sheets

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

The 1 page Linux CommandManual
Linux Command Reference
Linux Security Quick Reference
The Gimp Hotkey Reference

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Command Line Magic: Part II

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Fun with rename:
1) To rename filenames with CAPS characters to lowercase:
rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ *
2) To remove <spaces> from filenames:
rename ’s/ /-/g’ *
3) To strip files with the .bak extension:
rename ’s/\.bak$//’ *.bak

Free: The free command displays the amount of free and used memory in the system. For example, free -m gives the information using megabytes, which is [...]

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10 Essential tips of Linux Admins

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Tips from IBM, not all that complicated, but worth looking at.
Other tips include…

Sharing computers on a Linux (or heterogeneous) network.
IBM’s top 10 Linux articles and tutorials.
Miscellaneous tips.
Linux-powered networking: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
Industrial-strength Linux box lockdown, a howto: Part 1 and Part 2.
Introduction to cryptology concepts: Part 1, Part 2 and Part [...]

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Downloading torrents from command line

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Source: LinuxHaxor.net
Essentially RTorrent, CTorrent and Transmission-CLI.

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CLI Magic

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Source for this great article: Linux.com
In this context, a one-liner is a set of commands normally joined through a pipe (|). When joined by a pipe, the command on the left passes its output to the command on the right. Simple or complex, you can get useful results from a single line at the bash [...]

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Useful less-used Linux commands

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

1. lsb_release -a
2. The watch command.
3. Command line intro summary, with some rarely used switches (TLDP).
4. If you’re using a system which has a lot of users, and you’d like to see who has started a particular script, daemon, or binary, then the pstree utility is very helpful. It draws a tree of all [...]

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