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Command Line Interface – Less is more!
When people say less is more, this must be what they are talking about! The less command is similar to the more command except you can scan longer files in a nicer manner, because you can go up and...
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Command Line Interface –| grep
Grep is a very useful tool for narrowing down command line information. I normally call grep via a pipe from another command as shown in the screenshot below. The syntax for using grep in this way is...
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Command Line Interface – search tools
Okay so now you know how to get around on a Linux system and check a few things out, now its time to learn how to go about finding things within your system. The commands in question are updatedb,...
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Command Line Interface – Managing Directories
The tools I am going to discuss today are mdkir, rmdir and rm with a recursive flag. As shown in the picture above I show that the location I am currently working in is empty. I create a directory...
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Command Line Interface – rm
The rm command in general will be your bread and butter removal tool, its nothing fancy. It wont shred your files or anything of that sort but general removal is made possible by the rm command....
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Graphical Tools – XChat channel join delay for cloak security.
The default settings for XChat are to automatically connect to your favorite channels and then to identify with NickServ. For users attempting protection using IP masking via a cloak this creates an...
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Command Line Interface – df
I am going to discuss the df command, what it does and how to make it easier to read what is displayed. The df command will give you the Filesystem name/location, total size, used space, available...
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Command Line Interface – du -hsc
Okay so you are noticing through your downloading things and working here and there that your space usage is beginning to become out of hand, How do you find out where the major disk space usage is...
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Command Line Interface – mounting and unmounting partitions
The mount command is a useful for both giving you information on the things that are currently mounted and mounting your device files manually if your graphical applications fail you. It is especially...
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Command Line Interface – fstab
The /etc/fstab file is where you can set the default mounting parameters of your system, how you want the system to mount and where it will mount. The field will accept a few different entry types. You...
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Command Line Interface – The eject command.
This post will show you how to open and close your optical drive without the need to reach over and touch it. This can be useful for a variety of things. You’ve just burned a disc using your preferred...
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Command Line Interface – touch
The touch command is simple and multipurpose. It will both create a blank file if none exists or will update the timestamp of the last access, modified or inode change performed on the file. For...
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Command Line Interface – Midnight Commander
Midnight Commander or mc for short is the original command line file browser within the Linux environment. It features split pane browsing with customization of each pane. The ability to easily do...
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Command Line Interface – nano – The simple editor.
The nano command will open the nano text editor, one of the simplest and easiest to use command line editors available. The usage for nano is nano (file location). As you can see in the above...
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Command Line Interface – vim – A more powerful editor.
Vim can be daunting if you do not understand it. Luckily there are tools out there to help you learn how. Here is the first 12 or so lines of vimtutor that describes its purpose and the approximate...
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Command Line Interface – Save a CD/DVD, Use a USB flash drive and dd
If you use Linux for ethical reasons then that may be a reason to be conscious of our limited and dwindling resources, if you are interested in saving the environment you can refrain from burning a CD...
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Command Line Interface – chroot – access another Linux from your current Linux.
If you need to get access to one Linux distribution from another chroot is an excellent choice. A couple common usage examples are resetting a forgotten password and reinstalling the bootloader. I have...
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Announcement – Big Changes – No more written articles.
Hello readers, I have decided to do youtube videos instead of written articles. That does not mean there will no longer be snippets of relevent code or commands placed within here, I am just using all...
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Manjaro Linux install via Virtualbox
Here is a simple Virtualbox install of Manjaro Linux which I will use for future videos. Installing Manjaro itself is a very simple process, The install should take an estimated 15-20 minutes on most...
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tinkerforge – totally cool, I want some :)
Yesterday I was searching for some open source hardware alternatives. I ended up finding the tinerkforge. It allows you to build robots and many automation solutions. Check it out! I would like to get...
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