If you use Linux long enough, you are going to wind up getting to know (and using) the command line. And if you use the command line long enough, you are going to find yourself using the grep tool. Grep is one of the most useful linux utilities in that it will search WITHIN a [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Guake: Hide-able terminal goodness
As you well know, I am a big fan of the Linux command line. Because of this I use the terminal a lot. I am also a fan of Linux eye candy and making my desktop as clean and sleek as possible. I don’t like to have things in the way and I like easy [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Get to know Linux: shutdown, reboot, startx
If you use Linux long enough you are going to come face to face with a situation where you are in a GUI-less log in and you’re either going to know what to do or you are not. If you don’t know what to do, you will find yourself in a bit of a bind. [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Linux Tips: Handy ways to grep
The grep command is one of the handiest Linux commands you will use. The grep utitility was originally writing for UNIX and stands for Global Regular Expression Print. What grep does is search for strings in practically anything you need to search. You can search nearly any type of file, output, logs…you name it, grep [...]