Welcome to Chrplr’s Linux tips collection

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Contents:

• 1. The Shell
  • 1.1. some useful shortcuts
  • 1.2. Tab completion and case-insensitivity
  • 1.3. Commands
  • 1.4. Creating scripts
  • 1.5. Startup scripts: .profile, .bashrc, .bash_profile
  • 1.6. Jumping directly to directories
  • 1.7. Killing a program that is no longer responsive
• 2. Remote poweron and poweroff
• 3. Printing
• 4. Configure Multiple Displays
• 5. Connecting to a remote computer using ssh
  • 5.1. Setting up SSH
  • 5.2. Executing commands on a remote computer, without login
  • 5.3. Keeping a remote session alive
  • 5.4. Copy files to or from a remote computer
  • 5.5. Setting up X11 forwarding with ssh
• 6. Getting information about the system
  • 6.1. Which computer am I currently working on?
  • 6.2. What is my public IP address?
  • 6.3. Check available space on local disks
  • 6.4. Listing available disk partitions
  • 6.5. List the processes currently running on the system
  • 6.6. Finds the process owning a file
  • 6.7. Getting detailed information about your system
  • 6.8. Monitoring temperatures
  • 6.9. Monitoring the performance of your computer
  • 6.10. Benchmark disk IO performance:
  • 6.11. Benchmark 3D video performace
  • 6.12. Create a RAM disk
  • 6.13. Check power consumption
  • 6.14. Check open network connections
  • 6.15. Perform a security check
• 7. Users
  • 7.1. Who am I?
  • 7.2. Check who is logged on the computer
  • 7.3. Who is that user?
  • 7.4. Change your identity
  • 7.5. Change your password
  • 7.6. Change the login shell
  • 7.7. Change group
  • 7.8. Changing you UserID number
  • 7.9. Grant a user the ability to run commands as root (sudo)
• 8. Files and directories
  • 8.1. Where am i?
  • 8.2. Listing files and subdirectories
  • 8.3. Copying, renaming, moving or deleting files
  • 8.4. Creating, copying, moving or deleting directories
  • 8.5. Renaming files, replacing their name by their creation date
  • 8.6. Check or modify the rights of access to a file or a directory
  • 8.7. Linking files
• 9. Finding files or directories
  • 9.1. Using the fd command
  • 9.2. Using the ag command
  • 9.3. Using the classic unix find command
  • 9.4. locate
  • 9.5. Search files by content
• 10. Comparing files or directories
  • 10.1. Comparing two files
  • 10.2. Compare two directories
  • 10.3. Synchronizing two directories bidirectionaly
  • 10.4. Backups
• 11. Web
  • 11.1. Aspiring pages from web sites
  • 11.2. Nice ftp programs
• 12. Git
  • 12.1. Use git to keep an history of your projects and collaborate
  • 12.2. Create a copy of a local git repository on github.com
• 13. Disable the Touchpad while typing
• 14. Unfreeze the mouse
• 15. The system is not responding
• 16. change the brightness of the display
  • 16.1. Lock the screen under X11
  • 16.2. Suspend to RAM
  • 16.3. Suspend to disk
  • 16.4. Reboot
  • 16.5. Shutdown
• 17. Generating passwords
• 18. Graphics
  • 18.1. Manipulating Images
  • 18.2. Photography
  • 18.3. Drawing
  • 18.4. Creating graphics
  • 18.5. Take a screenshot
• 19. Make a screencast
• 20. Sound
  • 20.1. Connect a MIDI instrument
• 21. Miscellaneous
  • 21.1. Access files on a data CD or on a floppy
  • 21.2. Format a floppy
  • 21.3. Split a large file on several floppies
  • 21.4. Rip an audio CD
  • 21.5. Convert from wav to mp3
  • 21.6. Convert from wav to ogg vorbis
  • 21.7. Rip an Audio cd into mp3 or oggenc
  • 21.8. Rip a DVD
  • 21.9. Create a data CD
  • 21.10. Create an audio CD
  • 21.11. Make backups
  • 21.12. Connect to a bluetooth device
  • 21.13. Convert doc or odt documents to pdf
  • 21.14. List the hosts in a NIS domain
  • 21.15. Mounting a Samba Share
  • 21.16. Which shell is running?
  • 21.17. Get help. Find manuals
  • 21.18. Cut’n paste
  • 21.19. set up tap to click in i3
  • 21.20. Mount a partition of a usb drive
  • 21.21. Check an SD card
  • 21.22. Setup an ethernet card to access the internet
  • 21.23. Changing/Editing network connection
  • 21.24. Install new software
  • 21.25. Check if a software package is installed
  • 21.26. Dynamic libraries
  • 21.27. Command-line fun
  • 21.28. Get back your sanity with a productive environment
  • 21.29. Common file types
• 22. Similar resources: