Tips&Tricks Good console tips

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DOlson

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2002 12:58 am Post subject: Good console tips

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* [ABCabc]* selects A*, B*, C*, a*, b* and c*. Did you know that Linux is case sensitive in file- and directory names?

 

* Too lazy to type in long filenames? Type the first characters and press the TAB key. That activates file completion (great for RPM's!) If there are more files that fit the description, they are shown so you can add more letters and TAB again:

 

[paul@internet paul]$ ls wol<TAB>

wolflatest.htm wolfpage.htm wolfpics.htm wolfvisit.htm wolfpage2.htm wolfpics wolfsponsor.htm

[paul@internet paul]$ ls wolf

 

* cp somefile00[135] /temp will copy somefile001, somefile003 and somefile005 to /temp, but it won't touch somefile002 and somefile004 if they exist.

 

* To remove text from the cursor to the end of the line, press CTRL-K To remove text from the cursor to the beginning of the line, press CTRL-U.

 

* Linux has hidden files. But you can't see them. (That's why they're hidden.) Curious for them? Then use ls -a Suddenly you see all kinds of files with a "." in front of them, and directories too. Those are your hidden files. Don't mess with them unless you know what you're doing: they're hidden for a reason...

 

* Unpacking, untarring, unbz2-ing:

For .tar.gz files: tar -zxvf somefile.tar.gz

For .tar.bz2 files: tar -Ixvf somefile.tar.bz2

 

* Copy a Data CD from the cdrom drive to the CDwriter with

dd if=/dev/cdrom | cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0 -

 

* Copy an Audio-CD with

cdparanoia -vB 1- ~/tmp/name && cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -pad -audio ~/tmp/track*

 

Stolen from: http://nlpagan.net/linux.htm#software

 

 

sminons

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Post Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 12:01 pm Post subject: Another tip

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Use Ctrl+D to logout of a console from superuser status as well as a user status

 

 

 

Editor's note: This thread was originally posted at the old MUB (Mandrake User Board at club-nihil). This post is the result of a 99% automatic backup, so due to its nature some text may be lost (improbable but possible).