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Posts tagged terminal
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
Terminator: Workspaces inside your terminal window
Sep 18th
Are you a sysadmin? How many times have you wanted to watch output of two different windows running a tail on log at the same time? If you are like me, i would say a lot of time, may be on daily basis. I used to wish if there was a way to divide terminal horizontally and vertical into workspaces each having its own session. And then i stopped wishing when i stumbled upon “Terminator”. Its a great app, you can divide your terminal into workspace horizontally and vertically as much as you want, there is no end to it More >
