In a former article I’ve talked about script, to record a shell session from a terminal and a comment contained “ttyrec > script”
So what’s ttryrec ?
Jul 082011
Jul 072011
dd seem an unfriendly command, but if you start to use it, you’ll see that it’s a powerful command able to do many different things, backup a partition, CD or USB stick for example or do some simple tests on the speed of your disks or your CPU.
The man page say:
dd is an application that will “convert and copy a file”
But let’s see some trick with it.
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Jul 022011
Do you want to test how your new site work under an heavy load ?
Put it under siege !
Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It lets its user hit a web server with a configurable number of simulated web browsers. Those browsers place the server “under siege.”
Jul 012011
Author: Kurt Hartman Jr
First off, let me say that I am not one of those terminal loving Linux fans. I think it is cool and all, but I tend to save the command line for things that either require doing a massive batch job, or when I need to do something really specific.
Other than that, I stick to the Gnome GUI, and work within the parameters that various menus offer me. That works for 99% of what I need done.
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Jun 282011
less it’s a fundamental command if you work on the Linux terminal.
Doing a “man less” you can see:
NAME less - opposite of more
I love Gnu/Linux man pages, in this case it refer to more another command that do similar things (but less).
The Linux command less is similar to cat, but with less you can scroll the file instead of showing the file at once. With less command you can scroll up in the file as well as down, where with the Linux command more you can only scroll down the file.