Shell Tricks 
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Gnome Shell consists of two big parts: the panel and overlay. The panel part is pretty much obvious - system tray, user name, and clock stuff and the activities button which activates the overlay -, and about the "overlay", well, take a look at this screenshot:
So far, the Gnome Shell installation was quite time-consuming, so most people didn't try it until now. With time, howeve...
Posted by 
hotice 5 months ago
Posted by hotice 5 months ago 
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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.
Posted by hotice 7 months ago
Posted by hotice 7 months ago 
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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...
Posted by hotice 8 months ago
Posted by hotice 8 months ago 
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1. Use !!
Typing !! followed by Enter will bring back and execute the last command (same as Ctrl+P followed by Enter).
Posted by 
Chris7mas 8 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 8 months ago 
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Part 1 of a three-parts tutorial shows the very basics on getting used to the command line in Linux. "A shell is a command interpreter which allows the user to interact with the computer. Basically, it is a program which takes the commands you type, interprets them and performs the tasks you asked it to do, then it sends the results to the standard output, which usually is the screen."
Posted by Chris7mas about 1 year ago
Posted by Chris7mas about 1 year ago
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Sometimes you want to write a script that needs the external IP of the router your client is connected to. Here are three possible solutions.
Posted by 
aroedl about 1 year ago
Posted by aroedl about 1 year ago 
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Tutorial on how to change the console resolution by editing the /etc/grub/menu.lst file, so instead of the standard 80x25 size the screen will be able to use 1024x768 or even bigger. Helpful when working in a shell and it looks nicer when the system boots up.
Posted by Chris7mas about 1 year ago
Posted by Chris7mas about 1 year ago
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Sometimes, you might just want to sort /etc/portage/package.* to make them more readable. This is how you can do it :)
Posted by 
bekks about 1 year ago
Posted by bekks about 1 year ago 
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