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UNP: Now extract any archives without any worries
Many of us may know how to extract a .Tar.gz file. But how many of us know how to extract a .bz2, .lz, etc files. Some extra option…
GNU Screen: a free virtual terminal multiplexer
GNU Screen is a free virtual terminal multiplexer that allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. Persistence…
How to install Stable Open Office 3.2 in ubuntu 10,04 Lucid Lynx
PLEASE TRY THE METHOD TWO FIRST. METHOD 1 Download the installation package archive of Open Office from the below links. 32 bit US English 64 bit US English…
How to Enable/Disable vertical and horizontal scrolling using touchpad in ubuntu
Ubuntu provides configuration of the most common touchpad options in System > Preferences > Mouse Below the some common options you would like to enable under the Touchpad…
How to increase the priority of a running process in Linux
Kernel decides how much processor time is required for a process based on the nice value. Possible nice value range is: -20 to 20. A process that has…
How to view the performance details of individual CPUs in the top command
You can view the performance details of each CPUs of your machine in the top command by pressing 1 (number one) while the top command is running.one). $…
Execution Sequence of .bash_* files
Execution sequence for interactive login shellexecute /etc/profileIF ~/.bash_profile exists THEN execute ~/.bash_profileELSE IF ~/.bash_login exist THEN execute ~/.bash_login ELSE IF ~/.profile exist…
Disable the usage of history using HISTSIZE
I you don't want the shell to remember the commands you have typed, then disable history all together by setting the HISTSIZE to 0 as shown below.$ export…
“shopt -s cdspell” : Automatically correct mistyped directory names on cd
Use shopt -s cdspell to correct the typos in the cd command automatically asshown below. $ cd /var/vmall-bash: cd: /var/vmall: No such file or directory$ shopt -s cdspell$…
Use “cd -” to toggle between the last two directories
You can toggle between the last two current directories using cd - as shownbelow.[dipin@linuxgeek ~]$ cd /etc/[dipin@linuxgeek etc]$ pwd/etc[dipin@linuxgeek etc]$ cd /var/[dipin@linuxgeek var]$…
Try to navigate up the directory using cd followed by consecutive dots
In the below example i have show how to navigate up to level 5 using cd......(cd followed by 6 dots).Here a single dot represents the current directory, 2…
Toggle SSH Session using SSH Escape Character
When you’ve logged on to the remotehost using ssh from the localhost, you may want to come back to the localhost to perform some activity and go back…