Before heading to Google to get help on a particular Unix command, try the following methods, which will give you a comprehensive help on Unix commands.
This guide will help you to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope to 9.10 Karmic Koala. This tutorial has total of 13 steps with appropriate screen shots.
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.
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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This article is part of the on-going Unix Sed Tips and Tricks series.
In our previous sed articles we learned — sed printing, sed deletion, sed substitute , sed file write, and sed multiple commands.
In this article, let us review some interesting workarounds with the “s” substitute command in sed with several practical examples.
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?
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.
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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