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″ [...]
Screen Profiles available Ubuntu 9.04
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments
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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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