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Globbing with zsh

Oct 232010

In a previous article we saw how to install and configure zsh, today we’ll see in detail the options offered by the zsh for globbing or how the shell use some special characters to auto-complete our commands.

Please note: most command you’ll see here could be accomplished with particular switch of the command, for example ls with -r do a recursive search, but the goal of this article is to just use the shell, so our goal will be to accomplish the same result but just with the power of zsh globbing.

GNU/Linux Tools: Using IRC with ircII

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Oct 212010

Author: Brett Johansen

There are a bunch of IRC clients for Linux, but one of the oldest is ircII. You can find ircII, or just irc, on just about any version of Linux. To start irc, just type this in a terminal window:

irc BobFromAccounting irc.freenode.net

And the irc client should launch. If you get an error message, then it probably isn’t installed. To install irc in ubuntu, type this:

sudo apt-get install ircii

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introduction to zsh

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Oct 182010

zsh it’s a perfect alternative to the classic bash that we have as default on our linux box.

zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.

Origin

The first version of zsh was written by Paul Falstad in 1990 when he was a student at Princeton University.

Etymology

The name zsh derives from Yale professor Zhong Shao, then a teaching assistant at Princeton University. Paul Falstad thought that Shao’s login name, “zsh”, was a good name for a shell.

Xmodmap – on the way to writing hieroglyphs quicकly

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Oct 162010

Author: Juraj Sipos

XKB and Xmodmap

First, I must say that Linux (Unix) uses two approaches to configure the keyboard layout (they are both independent of each other): XKB and Xmodmap. XKB is an extension of X, many people say that it is better, but too robust and perhaps less understandable by beginners. Xmodmap is one of the oldest ways how to configure your keyboard layouts – a little easier approach, especially good for experimentation, but no only that.

Wallpaper changer for Linux

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Oct 162010

In Linux, setting an image as the desktop wallpaper is not a difficult task, but getting it to change automatically at a certain interval is.

If you have a good collection of wallpapers and want to see them in action on your desktop, there are some nice wallpaper changer software, i’ll try to give you an overview of some of them:

Desktop Drapes, Webilder, wallpaper-tray, desktopnova, wally

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