Category Archives: cli

This command just made me lose $RANDOM neurons

Have a little $RANDOM fun – paste the following in your terminal session: echo “This command just made me lose $RANDOM neurons”

What uses your resources?

By using top or htop you can find out what processes are using your resources and in what ammount. Another way to do this is by launching the following command: ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -r -k1 | more This will output something like 6.5 6077 user pidgin 6.5 5535 root /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -br -audit… Read More »

How many files?

You can easily find out how many files are in the current directory by typing the following in your Terminal session: ls -l | wc -l

Clear the memory cache in Linux

In Linux, you can clear the cache of the memory by using sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches