Awesome symbols and characters in a bash prompt
I just ran across a screenshot of someone’s terminal:
Unix & Linux
Installing Debian on Kaby Lake machine: difficulties with X.org
I just recently bought a new PC, and I am unable to install debian system proprerly. Now I will provide you in most detailed way my configuration and status:
Command-line completion from command history
So, I’ve looked at history and at Ctrl+R, but they are not what I thought I knew.
Is there a way that I can type in the beginning of a command, and cycle through the matches in my history with some bash shortcut?
Passing multiple parameters via xargs
I’d like to be able to use xargs to execute multiple parameters in different parts of a command.
How to change from csh to bash as default shell
I have csh as my default shell, as shown by echo $SHELL. I want to switch to bash as my default shell. I tried the following approaches to no avail:
How to scroll the screen using the middle click?
On Windows, most programs with large, scrollable text containers (e.g. all browsers, most word processors and IDEs) let you press the middle mouse button and then move the mouse to scroll. This scrolling is smooth and allows you to scroll very quickly using just the mouse.
Bluetooth Pairing on Dual Boot of Windows & Linux Mint/Ubuntu – Stop having to Pair Devices
When dual booting Windows 7/10 and Linux Mint/Ubuntu, you may find yourself having to re-pair your Bluetooth devices again and again. This will happen every time you switch OS.
Find where inodes are being used
So I received a warning from our monitoring system on one of our boxes that the number of free inodes on a filesystem was getting low.
bash directory shortcuts
When I type cd ~foo, I’d like bash to take me to some directory foo as a shortcut for typing the full directory path of foo. and I’d like to be able to cp ~foo/bar.txt ~/bar.txt to copy a file from the /foo/ directory to the home directory… So basically, I want something that works exactly like ~/ does, but where I specify what the directory should be. [I’m sure I should jfgi, but I don’t know what to fg]
How to enable and use the BFQ scheduler?
I just installed Linux kernel version 4.12 on Ubuntu 17.04 using ukuu (Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/ubuntu_kernel_upgrade_utility).