Command Line Tool of the Week ๐
doxx - A terminal based document viewer for Microsoft Word files.
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Linux tip of the day ๐ก
Don't like to see the omnipresent hidden directories . and ..?
You can use the option -A to hide them when you are displaying all files including the hidden ones.
$ ls -lA
Most new Linux users do not understand the difference between
- Terminal
- Command line
- Shell
- Prompt
Here's what you should know about it ๐
Terminal: It is a graphical application that runs a shell by default. There can be many terminal emulator applications like Terminator, Konsole etc.
Shell: It is difficult to "visualize" separately from the terminal. The terminal runs a shell, usually Bash shell. Like terminals, there are various shells as well, zsh, bash, fish etc.
Prompt: This is what you see before the space where you type the commands. There is no set standard for the prompt. In some old terminals, you would just have a blinking cursor to the place where you can type the commands. In modern terminals, prompt gives you some information like username, hostname and current working directory.
Command line: It is not something specific to Linux. Every operating system has a command line interface. Many programming languages have command line interfaces. Itโs a term for the interface where you can run and execute commands.
Typically, you type the commands in a terminal after the prompt and the commands are interpreted by the shell.
Quick Linux Tip of the day ๐ก
less command is use for reading the contents of a file... that's not a secret.
But do you know that it can also be used for looking at the content of a directory?
Quick Linux Tip ๐ก
While viewing a file with less, you can get a small status by pressing the = key.
It displays a small bar on the bottom that shows current line numbers in the view, total line number, percent of the file already scrolled, etc.
Quick Linux tip๐ก
You can see the bad login attempts to your Linux serve with:
$ lastb
The command just reads data from /var/log/btmp and displays it in a pretty format.
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