Though for many users it is likely comforting to know that use of the terminal can be largely, if not entirely avoided with today’s crop of shiny Linux distributions, there are those among the community who love the raw utility of the command-line. Others still find they need the Linux terminal to effectively accomplish certain [...]
Reader Raiyan mailed in with an idea for an article a few weeks back, titled ’Top five commands a new-comer to Linux should know.’ A great idea, but we all have different ideas about what makes a must-know command. So I took to the @omgubuntu twitter account to ask you – the readers – what five [...]
Long for a pop-up Terminal to appear at the push of a button? Well, you got it with VTerminal. VTerminal describes itself as “a dock and DE independent terminal applet for the masses” designed to be a “..mix between the awn-terminal applet and guake“. You press a button and the Terminal appears. Click elsewhere and [...]
I had this small but EXTREMELY annoying problem of the tab-autocompletion not working with apt-get in the terminal. I use it a lot to install programs and related packages, but now i need to know the specific name instead of tabbing to see what i can type. After considerable searching I found the cure. Well [...]
Let’s build a cool command line currency converter using google’s currency converter. You might require wget or curl and sed to do this. Read More About It
Here’s a list of several terminal commands that are perhaps unfamiliar to many new-to-Linux users but could be really handy when used properly. Kill a running application by its name killall [app_name] Display disk space usage: df –h Locate the installation directories of a program: whereis [app] Mount an .iso file: mount /path/to/file.iso /mnt/cdrom [...]
