Sometimes is useful to run over and over again the same command until something happen, for example you could do a ls -lrt until a file has reached a certain dimension or is created, how to do it ? Sure you can use bash history and use up arrow and return over and over again, […]
Whether you’re a fan of the command line or the novice I recommend you to do a test with INX (INX Is Not X), this is a minimal Linux distribution that has the characteristic of not having any graphical desktop, all the tools and packages provided work in the terminal. INX is a Live CD […]
While i was surfing the net i’ve found this article By Matteo Ferrone about Linux signals, that i want to repost: A signal is an event sent by the kernel to a running program. The signals can arrive at any time and software can choose what to do when it arrives: it can decide to […]
The partitions that contains the ext3 and ext4 filesystems reserve the 5% of the total size of the filesystm by default. The idea here is even when you run out of disk space, the root user should still be able to log in and system services should still run. Without this option, the root user […]
Today i want to show you some examples done with Zenity. Zenity is a cross-platform program that allows the execution of GTK+ dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts. Like tools such as whiptail and dialog, zenity allows for easy creation of GUIs, though it has fewer features than more complex GUI creation tools: “Other […]