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Turn off or limit the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu

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[...]


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 [...]


List only directories from the command line

If you’re in a Terminal session and would like to only list the directories of the current folder you’re in, do a ls -d */ [...]


Batch convert images from the command line

A simple way to convert images in Linux is by using the command line: convert image.jpg newImage.gif will convert the JPG file to a GIF file. convert -quality 78% file.jpg will set the quality of the JPEG file to 78% con[...]