Welcome to Chrplr’s Linux tips collection

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Contents:

• 1. Interacting with the Shell
  • 1.1. Editing the current command line
  • 1.2. Navigating the history of command lines:
  • 1.3. Job control
  • 1.4. Commands/functions/builtins
  • 1.5. Customization
  • 1.6. Enabling case-insensitive tab-completion
  • 1.7. Customizing the prompt
  • 1.8. Oh-My-Bash
  • 1.9. Jump directly to directories with symbolic links
  • 1.10. Directory Bookmarks
  • 1.11. cd history
  • 1.12. Open a file from the command line
• 2. Preventing a job from being killed when the terminal is closed
• 3. Running jobs in parallel
• 4. Shell scripts
• 5. Startup scripts: .profile, .bashrc, .bash_profile
• 6. Power on/off
  • 6.1. Remote power off
  • 6.2. Remote power on (wake on lan)
• 7. When the system is no longer responsive
• 8. Use nvidia GPU on a prime system
• 9. List processes that “eats” CPU
• 10. Kill programs that do not respond
• 11. Printing
• 12. Find other computers on the local area network
• 13. Connect to remote computers using ssh
  • 13.1. Set up SSH
  • 13.2. Execute commands on a remote computer, without login
  • 13.3. Keep a remote session alive
  • 13.4. Copy files to or from a remote computer
  • 13.5. Mount a remote folder with sshfs
  • 13.6. Set up X11 forwarding with ssh
• 14. Internet
  • 14.1. What is my public IP address?
  • 14.2. Check opened listening ports
  • 14.3. Check open network connections
  • 14.4. DNS
  • 14.5. Routing tables
  • 14.6. traceroute
• 15. Get information about the system
  • 15.1. Which computer am I currently working on?
  • 15.2. Check available space on local disks
  • 15.3. List available disk partitions
  • 15.4. List mounted filesystems
  • 15.5. List the processes currently running on the system
  • 15.6. Find the process that owns a file
  • 15.7. List all running services
  • 15.8. Get detailed information about your system
  • 15.9. Display detailed hardware information
  • 15.10. Monitor CPUs
  • 15.11. Monitor the performance of your computer
• 16. Stress the system
  • 16.1. Benchmark disk IO performance:
  • 16.2. Benchmark 3D video performance
  • 16.3. Create a RAM disk
  • 16.4. Check power consumption
  • 16.5. Perform a security check
• 17. Update firmware
• 18. Users
  • 18.1. Add a new user
  • 18.2. Who am I?
  • 18.3. Check who is logged on the computer
  • 18.4. Who is that user?
  • 18.5. Change your identity
  • 18.6. Change your password
• 19. Generate passwords
  • 19.1. Change the login shell
  • 19.2. Change group
  • 19.3. Change you UserID number
  • 19.4. Grant a user the ability to run commands as root (sudo)
• 20. Files and directories
  • 20.1. Where am i?
  • 20.2. List files and subdirectories
  • 20.3. Copy, rename, move or delete files
  • 20.4. Create, copy, move or delete directories
  • 20.5. Rename files, replacing their name by their creation date
  • 20.6. Check or modify the rights of access to a file or a directory
  • 20.7. Links
• 21. Find files or directories
  • 21.1. Using the fd command
  • 21.2. Using the ag command
  • 21.3. Using the classic unix find command
  • 21.4. plocate
• 22. find files interactively
• 23. find duplicate files
• 24. Search files by content
• 25. Compare files or directories
  • 25.1. Compare two files
  • 25.2. Compare two directories
• 26. Synchronize two directories bidirectionaly
• 27. Backups
• 28. Encrypt/Decrypt files using GPG
• 29. Configure Multiple Displays
• 30. Web
  • 30.1. Aspire pages from web sites
  • 30.2. Transfer files between computers
• 31. Git
  • 31.1. Use git to keep an history of your projects and collaborate
  • 31.2. Create a copy of a local git repository on github.com
• 32. Disable the Touchpad while typing
• 33. Unfreeze the mouse
• 34. change the brightness of the display
  • 34.1. Lock the screen under X11
  • 34.2. Suspend to RAM
  • 34.3. Suspend to disk
  • 34.4. Reboot
  • 34.5. Shutdown
• 35. Graphics
  • 35.1. Manipulating Images
  • 35.2. Photography
  • 35.3. Drawing
  • 35.4. Creating graphics
  • 35.5. Take a screenshot
• 36. Make a screencast
• 37. Sound
  • 37.1. Disabling the pulseaudio server
  • 37.2. Connect a MIDI instrument
• 38. Miscellaneous
  • 38.1. Access files on a data CD or on a floppy
  • 38.2. Format a floppy
  • 38.3. Split a large file on several floppies
  • 38.4. Rip an audio CD
  • 38.5. Convert from wav to mp3
  • 38.6. Convert from wav to ogg vorbis
  • 38.7. Rip an Audio cd into mp3 or oggenc
  • 38.8. Rip a DVD
  • 38.9. Create a data CD
  • 38.10. Create an audio CD
  • 38.11. Make backups
  • 38.12. Connect to a bluetooth device
  • 38.13. Convert doc or odt documents to pdf
  • 38.14. List the hosts in a NIS domain
  • 38.15. Mounting a Samba Share
  • 38.16. Which shell is running?
  • 38.17. Get help. Find manuals
  • 38.18. Cut’n paste
  • 38.19. set up tap to click in i3
  • 38.20. Mount a partition of a usb drive
  • 38.21. Check an SD card
  • 38.22. Setup an ethernet card to access the internet
  • 38.23. Changing/Editing network connection
  • 38.24. Install new software
  • 38.25. Check if a software package is installed
  • 38.26. Dynamic libraries
  • 38.27. Command-line fun
  • 38.28. Get back your sanity with a productive environment
  • 38.29. Common file types
• 39. Similar resources: