In the past I’ve made a roundup of microblogging client for Linux, but this one is so new that i did not talked about it. Turses is a fork of a similar project Tyrs, the goal of both projects is to provide a twitter client on the terminal with the help of ncurses library, so why fork [...]
A look at bash internals: compgen
Inspired from a post by Concepcion Claudio Certad, today I’ve taken a look at a command that I did not known: compgen. The compgen builtin command expands a list of arguments to generate completion matches, so it allows us to display the commands, functions, directories and aliases available for the current user. In short compgen [...]
Aliaser take control of your alias on Linux
Alias are a great tool to help increment your productivity on the terminal with bash (or any shell program you’re using), but usually we are too lazy to think at what are the most common, or long commands that we use frequently and prepare an alias for them. And so someone has done a small [...]
How-To: Create ISO Images from Command-Line
Original article by Craciun Dan published on Tuxarena, the article is based on the installation and use within a distribution with packages .deb For this tutorial we’ll use the genisoimage utility, developed as part of the cdrkit project. genisoimage is a command-line tool for creating ISO 9660 filesystem images, which can be burnt after to a CD or DVD [...]
Bash, special parameters by examples
A topic that is not much know by many people that use bash on Linux it’s the use of the special parameters available in bash. These parameters may only be referenced; assignment to them is not allowed, i’m talking about the parameters like $$ or $?. Let’s see some example with them. Find me on [...]