16th February 2011
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System, cli
You have been trying combinations to see which command line options best fit your needs, and you’ve finally found it. Now let’s make that into a script. You could revert to the last command using your Up key,[...]
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11th February 2011
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Networking, cli
This can be a real saver if you are using an EeePC with very low disk space. Say you want to download a large file but you don’t want to save it locally because you don’t have the necessary disk space. Do a
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7th February 2011
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cli
Here are two one-liners to have fun with. The first one takes a block of text you input it and displays it one character at a time, creating the impression that someone else is typing:
echo “I have a troll in my Li[...]
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4th February 2011
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Security, System, cli
If you wish to not leave traces of your CLI activity in the .bash_history file, you can exclude the logging of certain commands by appending a space character before them. For example, press the space bar before you type[...]
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