Archive for the 'CLI' Category

10th January Comments

Can You Top This? 15 Practical Linux Top Command Examples

Posted on January 10th, 2010 at 6:38 am

 
This article is part of the on-going 15 example series where 15 examples will be provided for a specific command or functionality. In this series, earlier we discussed about find command, crontab examples, grep command, history command, ping command, and wget examples. In this article, let us review 15 examples for Linux top command that [...]

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4th December Comments

13 Linux lethal commands

Posted on December 4th, 2009 at 7:13 am

 
In this post I will collect all commands which SHOULD NEVER be executed in Linux. Any of them will cause data loss or corruption, can freeze or hang up running system. NEVER RUN THESE COMMANDS IN LINUX BOX CLI! Even if somebody advises you in forum/im to do it.
This is a must read for [...]

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13th December Comments

The Linux CLI for Beginners, or, Fear Not the Linux Command Line!

Posted on December 13th, 2008 at 8:23 am

 
Linux forums, mailing lists, and even howto articles are full of fearful comments against the Linux command line. "Pry my GUI from my cold dead hands!" is all too common. Nobody wants to take your GUI away, because with Linux you get the full power of both. Akkana Peck gives us a friendly introduction to [...]

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23rd March Comments

Largest Linux Cheat Sheet

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 at 5:21 am

Hey that is their title not mine but I can say that it is one huge list of commands for linux and BSD so if you want to show off at the next lug meeting you might want to stop in and peruse the site. Or if you just want to learn a thing or [...]

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11th February Comments

Favorite CLI Tools

Posted on February 11th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Some one asked the other day if I had any cli tools that I would say are favorites to use, I really had to think a few on that. Like I said the other day here Scrot is one that really is handy and fast.But lets try a couple and see what comes up.
grep and [...]

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5th February Comments

Learning the shell

Posted on February 5th, 2008 at 6:24 am

Why bother?
Why do you need to learn the command line anyway? Well, let me tell you a story. Not long ago we had a problem where I used to work. There was a shared drive on one of our file servers that kept getting full. I won’t mention that this legacy operating system did not [...]

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