The MobaXterm application for Windows is a good way to practice Linux commands if you are stuck on a Windows only machine. This application is extensible with add ons such as the gcc compiler and Vim editor as well as many other add ons to make the application even more useful. This is good for practising programming … Read more
To get simple information about a Linux command, or to refresh your memory, use the info pages to learn more about the commands. Type info ls for example to get information about the ls command. Type help and then a bash scripting command like ‘echo’, and the help will be displayed. 4.4 Fri Oct 25 … Read more
Using the Linux command-line allows a lot of flexibility when running commands and how they are run. Take the example below for instance. rm `find ./ -name "*~"`rm `find ./ -name "*~"` This command runs a command within backticks and outputs the result as an argument to the rm command. This command will therefore delete … Read more
The Powershell for Windows has many useful features for controlling your Windows computer; with many cmdlets and scripting ability; but the BASH shell for Linux is already an established shell that is far more powerful and useful. The downside to the Powershell is that it does not seem to have an implementation of grep. Without … Read more
This is a BASH shell script that will print all of the available colors using the BASH shell. The colors are useful for colorizing your BASH prompt to differentiate it from your shell output. #!/bin/bash # colors.sh – Print out all the different ECMA color-mod combos # # 2008 – Mike Golvach – [email protected] … Read more
The Internet is still under threat, the SOPA and CISPA bills are threatening the freedom of speech that we are enjoying at the moment. The elderly members of Congress do not truly understand the Internet and are only interested in shutting down the freedom of speech to better control the flow of information that would … Read more
Changing permissions of a file. To add executable permissions for all categories of a file, you would use chmod a+x foo. To add executable permissions for only the current user, you would use: chmod go-wx foochmod go-wx foo Or you could use chmod +x: chmod +x foochmod +x foo That is a simpler way of … Read more
Using the dircolors command in your ~/.bashrc. The dircolors command as used in your ~/.bashrc will set the colours of the various files and directories that are shown with the ls(1) command. Use the command dircolors –print-database to display a list of the filetypes and what colour codes will be used for each one. [ … Read more
The search and replace dialog in Gedit. I have used this to convert a comma-delimited file to a newline delimited file. I had saved a huge long list of IP addresses that I had to put into the ban list on my forums, and the list was comma-delimited, but the latest PHPBB software will not … Read more