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Five Ubuntu Features You Didn’t Know About
Feb 15th
The quest to discover something new and fresh about Ubuntu, which is arguably the world’s most popular and best documented Linux distribution, is an almost ridiculous one to accept and an almost impossible one to fulfill. I felt like the Mission Impossible character, Jim Phelps, as I read the request from my editor. I expected to see the words, “This is your mission, Ken, should you choose to accept it. This email will self-destruct in five seconds” at the end of that message.
Vimtutor: Learn vim the easy way
Nov 24th
I learned vim the hard way e.g. started with nano, kept hearing from my seniors about vim, tried it once in a while, shifted to it and tried to survive, kept learning stuff with the need and time and now i know vim enough for my daily use. Lucky you, you now know vimtutor, go on, open a terminal window, and run this, its a great resource to get you started.
Linux alternate of open command in Mac/Windows
Nov 13th
i have been to mac world once when i was into iphone development (which was fun) and there i came across the “open” command which can be executed on terminal and mac opens the file in the right application for you, great, isn’t it? I came back to linux world and was missing that but never had much time to check around. The other day i found some time so here are my findings (from google, stackoverflow and etc), my conclusions: (more…)
gpm: Mouse on console
Oct 5th
I am way too used to copying and pasting text the way God intended it e.g. selecting to copy and then middle click to paste. This is very useful when i am working on shell. I really missed mouse when i sat on terminals and had to type manually. But you dont need to do that because there is a tool called gpm. With this tool you can use mouse over commandline and do all (virtually) the things you want.
You can install it using:
apt-get install gpm
Finch: Commandline Pidgin-like IM
Oct 4th
Do you like pidgin? Do you like commandline? What if i tell you that there is a IM which uses libpurple, is like pidgin but commandline? Cool, right? Well its finch. You can install it like:
apt-get install finch
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most: get the most out of commandline file reading
Oct 3rd
Everyone here should have heard of moreif not less atleast. Most distributions now a days use less as default pager for various tasks. You can check this by
echo $PAGER
and chances are you would see less.
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