Linux

Clear garbage output from the Terminal

Sometimes you do something like cat /bin/cat and your Terminal fills with characters. The bad part is that you have to clear the screen to get a usable BASH prompt since now everything you type is unintelligible. Clear y[...]


sl makes you pay attention

The sl binary is a funny little application that makes you pay attention when you type “ls“. If you have it installed and type sl by accident instead, an ASCII train will roam through your terminal screen ins[...]


Check package dependencies with apt-rdepends

apt-rdepends is available on Debian systems and allows one to output the dependency list for a certain package. Use it with apt-rdepends package_name to get not only a dependency list but also dependencies of dependencie[...]


Neatly display directory sizes from the Linux command line

If you want to display directory sizes from the CLI, following an ascendent pattern, use du -S | sort -n The command will analyze every subdirectory of the current location and print and easy to read output. Try it. [...]