by Ramesh Natarajan on October 29, 2009
Ubuntu is the best Linux desktop distribution, which took the number one spot in our Top 5 Best Linux OS Distributions.
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala stable version is released. You can download it online or order a free CD as explained below.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on October 28, 2009
When you have the password-less login enabled, you may be either using SSH to execute command in the batch mode on a remote machine or using SCP to copy files from/to the remote machine.
If there are some issues with the password less login, your batch program may end up in a loop or timeout.
In this article, let us review how instruct ssh/scp to do the operation only if you can do without waiting for password.
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by Sasikala on October 26, 2009
by Ramesh Natarajan on October 23, 2009
Question: I’m trying to capture the output of the top command into a file. When I execute top > output.txt, the output.txt file contains lot of junk characters. What is the best method to capture the output of the top command into a readable text file?
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by Ramesh Natarajan on October 23, 2009
Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute a small talk program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example?
Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World SmallTalk program and execute *.st program on Linux or Unix OS.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on October 21, 2009
If you are working on UNIX / Linux environment, you should become comfortable in the Vim editor.
If you think the Vim editor is not user friendly, or intuitive to learn quickly and become an expert — you are not alone.
This book contains 101 practical examples that will help both newbies and intermediate Vim users to become an expert.
Each hack provided in this eBook is very crisp and easy to understand. The practical examples will show you exactly how to use a particular Vim feature.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on October 19, 2009
In this article, let us review how to use Unix tac command, rev command, paste command, and join command with practical examples.
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by Sasikala on October 16, 2009
Question: Is it possible for me to combine multiple sed commands? Can I combine two sed commands and execute it as single sed command?
Answer: In our previous articles we learned sed with single commands — printing, deletion, substitute and file write.
In this article let us review how to combine multiple sed commands using option -e as shown below.
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