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
• 2. Opening a file from the command line
  • 2.1. Killing a program that is no longer responsive
• 3. Remote poweron and poweroff
• 4. Printing
• 5. Encrypt/Decrypt files using GPG
• 6. Configure Multiple Displays
• 7. Connecting to a remote computer using ssh
  • 7.1. Setting up SSH
  • 7.2. Executing commands on a remote computer, without login
  • 7.3. Keeping a remote session alive
  • 7.4. Copy files to or from a remote computer
  • 7.5. Mounting a remote folder with sshfs
  • 7.6. Setting up X11 forwarding with ssh
• 8. Getting information about the system
  • 8.1. Which computer am I currently working on?
  • 8.2. What is my public IP address?
  • 8.3. Check available space on local disks
  • 8.4. Listing available disk partitions
  • 8.5. List the processes currently running on the system
  • 8.6. Finds the process owning a file
  • 8.7. Getting detailed information about your system
  • 8.8. Monitoring temperatures
  • 8.9. Monitoring the performance of your computer
  • 8.10. Check open listening ports
  • 8.11. List all running services
  • 8.12. Benchmark disk IO performance:
  • 8.13. Benchmark 3D video performace
  • 8.14. Create a RAM disk
  • 8.15. Check power consumption
  • 8.16. Check open network connections
  • 8.17. Perform a security check
• 9. Users
  • 9.1. Who am I?
  • 9.2. Check who is logged on the computer
  • 9.3. Who is that user?
  • 9.4. Change your identity
  • 9.5. Change your password
  • 9.6. Change the login shell
  • 9.7. Change group
  • 9.8. Changing you UserID number
  • 9.9. Grant a user the ability to run commands as root (sudo)
• 10. Files and directories
  • 10.1. Where am i?
  • 10.2. Listing files and subdirectories
  • 10.3. Copying, renaming, moving or deleting files
  • 10.4. Creating, copying, moving or deleting directories
  • 10.5. Renaming files, replacing their name by their creation date
  • 10.6. Check or modify the rights of access to a file or a directory
  • 10.7. Linking files
• 11. Finding files or directories
  • 11.1. Using the fd command
  • 11.2. Using the ag command
  • 11.3. Using the classic unix find command
  • 11.4. plocate
  • 11.5. Search files by content
• 12. Comparing files or directories
  • 12.1. Comparing two files
  • 12.2. Compare two directories
  • 12.3. Synchronizing two directories bidirectionaly
  • 12.4. Backups
• 13. Web
  • 13.1. Aspiring pages from web sites
  • 13.2. Transfering files accross computers
• 14. Git
  • 14.1. Use git to keep an history of your projects and collaborate
  • 14.2. Create a copy of a local git repository on github.com
• 15. Disable the Touchpad while typing
• 16. Unfreeze the mouse
• 17. The system is not responding
• 18. change the brightness of the display
  • 18.1. Lock the screen under X11
  • 18.2. Suspend to RAM
  • 18.3. Suspend to disk
  • 18.4. Reboot
  • 18.5. Shutdown
• 19. Generating passwords
• 20. Graphics
  • 20.1. Manipulating Images
  • 20.2. Photography
  • 20.3. Drawing
  • 20.4. Creating graphics
  • 20.5. Take a screenshot
• 21. Make a screencast
• 22. Sound
  • 22.1. Connect a MIDI instrument
• 23. Miscellaneous
  • 23.1. Access files on a data CD or on a floppy
  • 23.2. Format a floppy
  • 23.3. Split a large file on several floppies
  • 23.4. Rip an audio CD
  • 23.5. Convert from wav to mp3
  • 23.6. Convert from wav to ogg vorbis
  • 23.7. Rip an Audio cd into mp3 or oggenc
  • 23.8. Rip a DVD
  • 23.9. Create a data CD
  • 23.10. Create an audio CD
  • 23.11. Make backups
  • 23.12. Connect to a bluetooth device
  • 23.13. Convert doc or odt documents to pdf
  • 23.14. List the hosts in a NIS domain
  • 23.15. Mounting a Samba Share
  • 23.16. Which shell is running?
  • 23.17. Get help. Find manuals
  • 23.18. Cut’n paste
  • 23.19. set up tap to click in i3
  • 23.20. Mount a partition of a usb drive
  • 23.21. Check an SD card
  • 23.22. Setup an ethernet card to access the internet
  • 23.23. Changing/Editing network connection
  • 23.24. Install new software
  • 23.25. Check if a software package is installed
  • 23.26. Dynamic libraries
  • 23.27. Command-line fun
  • 23.28. Get back your sanity with a productive environment
  • 23.29. Common file types
• 24. Similar resources: