If you’re a heavy user of the GNU/Linux command line, then you’re already familiar with the man command. If you’re a newbie, the man command (short for manual, as in RTFM) pulls up the online documentation for terminal commands and outputs it to the same terminal. Perhaps you wish you could have some of these handy documents loaded on your PDA or smartphone as a reference. Continue reading
I’ve written a few posts about restarting USB service in Ubuntu before. This is an update to that process for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic).
As of Ubuntu Jaunty, the usb kernel module is called usb_storage. Continue reading
RockBox is a free and open source firmware available for several different digital music players. Stable releases are available for the following music players:
In this tutorial I’m going to show how to list the installed packages on a Debian based operating system, (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Sidux, CrunchBang, etc.) I got this gem of a command line one-liner from the Sidux website.
This command is useful if you want to replicate a GNU/Linux installation from one computer to another.
For those who are impatient, I’ll cut right to the chase. This command will create a file in your home directory called installed.txt that contains the listing of your installed packages. Open a terminal and enter: Continue reading
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.
I recently received a bunch of files that stupidly had names starting with spaces and hyphens; ( – ). The files looked something like this:
linerd@laptop:~/demo$ ls -1 - File number 1.txt - File number 2.txt - File number 3.txt - File number 4.txt - File number 5.txt
Starting a file name with a space is just stupid! For 5 files it’s no big deal to go in and manually rename them. I had many more files, so I was in search of a tool that could change many files all at once. The aptly named rename terminal command turned out to be a great solution. Continue reading