Casual VirtualBox users might not know about the awesome power that lurks just beneath the surface in the Command Line Interface (CLI).
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Command Line Basics: Count Files
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There may be an occasion where you want to count the number of files in a directory in GNU/Linux. Here are a few simple commands to get the job done.
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Linux command line tips
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I thought it would be useful to break away from all the GUI-goodness and offer up a few command line tips and tricks. Why? No matter how powerful, user-friendly, and modern the Linux desktop becomes, there may come a time when you want to step up your game and get down and dirty with the command line interface.
Read more »Restart USB in Ubuntu Jaunty/Karmic
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Sometimes you need to restart USB services for a USB device to be recognized. Get the job done with this command line one-liner.
Read more »How-To: Post to Tweeter from Command-Line
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This is a short tutorial explaining how to post to Twitter using command-line in Linux, without needing to even open up your web browser.
Read more »10 Useful Linux Commands
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Here's a list of 10 commands which may come handy when using the command line in Linux:
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Command Line Basics: Bulk Rename Files With rename
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Sometimes you get a bunch of files that are named in an annoying way and you’d like to change the naming convention for all of them. Maybe you forgot to change the settings on your CD ripping software and it ended up creating a bunch of long file names that you don’t like.
The aptly named "rename" terminal command comes to the rescue and allows you to bulk rename files from the command line.
Command Line Basics: Cut Fields With awk
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There are times when you will want to trim some information from the output of a command. This may be because you want to feed that output into another command. Whatever the reason for wanting to manipulate the output, awk is one of many tools available in GNU/Linux to perform this task.
Read more »Repeating Commands in Bash
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Making use of previously entered commands can help you remember the location of files previously edited, canremove the need to re-enter long path names and can save you a lot of typing mistakes.
Read more »13 Linux lethal commands
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In this post I will collect all commands which SHOULD NEVER be executed in Linux. Any of them will cause data loss or corruption, can freeze or hang up running system. NEVER RUN THESE COMMANDS IN LINUX BOX CLI! Even if somebody advises you in forum/im to do it.
Read more »Command line tricks for smart geeks
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Everyone knows the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything is "42", but for the first time we can reveal the question. It is this: how many command-line tricks must a man memorise?
Read more »Top 3 Sites To Help You Become A Linux Command Line Master
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The truth about Linux today is that one may never have to actually touch a terminal or issue a single Linux command in order to run some versions of this flexible alternative operating system. But once a user becomes accustomed to using the command line interface, it soon becomes the preferred method in many tasks.
Read more »A perceived sense of inferiority
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What has my brain turning today is a simple thread in the Ubuntu Forums that sparks the age-old discussion about the usefulness of the CLI over GUIs.
Read more »Command Line Basics: Join Files With cat
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I’ve already shown you how to view files with the cat command. In today’s post I’m going to show you how to use the GNU cat command for its originally intended purpose: for joining multiple files together.
Read more »More Bash Redirections
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Everybody's seen redirection in bash commands, that's pretty common, but bash also allows you to define redirections when you define functions. This causes the redirections to be evaluated/executed whenever the function is called. This feature doesn't really give you any new features, just another way to express existing features.
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