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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-post-to-tweeter-from-command.html
blogspot.com This is a short tutorial explaining how to post to Twitter using command-line in Linux, without needing to even open up your web browser.

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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/12/10-useful-linux-commands.html
blogspot.com Here's a list of 10 commands which may come handy when using the command line in Linux: Search for all files modified in the last N days containing a specific text in their name find DIR -mtime -N -name "*TEXT*"

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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/08/tip-of-day-resize-images-from-cli-using.html
blogspot.com ImageMagick is a powerful set of tools used to perform various operations on images directly from the command-line. To install it in Debian type as root:

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http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-10-useful-linux-commands.html
blogspot.com Among the commands: Find removed (deleted) files still in use via /proc, On-the-fly unrar movie in .rar archive and play it, does also work on part archives, List programs with open ports and connections, Manually pause/unpause an application (process), etc.

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http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/07/complete-shell-audio-player-for-linux.html
blogspot.com CMus (C* Music Player) is an ncurses-based audio player which can be run in a shell, with no need for an X server which is very configurable with Vi-like commands, multiple views and keyboard shortcuts. It supports various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, AAC or WMA. CMus comes with everything you need: playlist support, queue system, seek, Last.fm (if compiled from source a...

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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/06/6-bash-productivity-tips.html
blogspot.com 1. Use !! Typing !! followed by Enter will bring back and execute the last command (same as Ctrl+P followed by Enter).

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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/5-popular-tricks-to-customise-nano.html
blogspot.com Nano is a popular and user-friendly text editor for console which is mostly used for editing quickly configuration files, sources or various other text files. It does not compete with advanced development environments like Vim or Emacs, but it's fast and easy on resources. Here are five (popular, I hope) tips for customising Nano and changing its default behaviour.

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http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/acripper-automatically-rip-audio-cds-to-oggmp3-in-opensuse/
susegeek.com Automatic Command-line Ripper (acripper) is a free opensource tool for ripping and encoding CD tracks on the fly. It also tries to get the CD information from feeddb.org, a CDDB website and writes it to the encoded files. If no information from freedb.org is available, it then tries to read CD information (CD title, artist name, tracks names) from a text file names “titles.txt” in the working d...

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http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/tutorial-introduction-to-linux-cli.html
blogspot.com A shell is a command interpreter which allows the user to interact with the computer. The way things work is simple: the user types in commands, the shell interprets them and performs the tasks it was asked to do, and finally it sends the result to the standard output (which is usually the screen). For example, the output of the ls command can be something like:

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http://tux.50webs.org/tip_nano_highlighting.html
50webs.org Nano is one of the most lightweight and user-friendly text editors for command-line. For those who prefer to edit C, Bash, Python or other source files using Nano instead of an advanced IDE like Emacs or Vim, enabling syntax highlighting is probably a must-have. To enable highlighting in Nano for various programming languages, you will first need to edit (or create if it doesn't already exist) ...

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