Say you want to write a small shell script that locks up your GNOME desktop at specific intervals. What command would you use?In this case, your best bet would be gnome-screensaver-command --lock This has the same effect[...]
If you want to find out what files are older than - let’s say - ten years and still residing on your hard drive, do a cd /find . -mtime +3650 This will search for such files on all your Linux partition and display[...]
If you want to turn off the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu, all you have to do is create a .gtkrc file in your home directory (if one isn’t already available): touch ~/.gtkrc-2.0 Now paste this line in there: g[...]
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 [...]
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