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Posted in Tutorials on Jan 10th, 2009
There is a simple method to implement this. Using a command like manf vi could open up a firefox windows with the man file. But this is not a standard command.We need to create it. 1. create a file manf and put this code in it man $1 > hello && firefox hello && rm [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Aug 25th, 2008
Recently a great website cross my path : www.die.net/earth/ Based on some cool php magic this site associates an earth static map with dynamic clouds extracted from official free sites. Now comes the interesting part : you have at your disposal an auto updatable picture link with the url : http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg. The next obvious step [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Apr 26th, 2008
The classic way would be to edit the file in your home/user directory and write the alias. The quick way would be to append the command at the end of the file and reload the shell configuration. Exemple : 1.Build an alias ( in this case – history without starting numbers )alias history2=”history | sed [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Mar 17th, 2008
Unpack tar zxvf file.tar.gz Pack tar zcvf file.tar.gz dir1 dir2 Params z = filter the archive through gzip x = eXtract files from an archive c = Create a new archive v = Verbosely list files processed f = File Unpack tar jxvf file.tar.bz2 Pack tar jcvf file.tar.bz2 dir1 dir2 Params j = filter the [...]
Posted in Tutorials on Jan 26th, 2008
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