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Introduction to irssi
There are a load of IRC clients for UNIX-based systems out there, but I personally feel that irssi suits me best. Incredibly flexible, adjustable for every user, and doesn’t depend on X to be able to...
View ArticleIntroduction to screen
screen is for many people an unknown program and tool, but those who do know it consider it to be an essential one. This is because of the functionality of the program, that can end up saving you a lot...
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Making your BASH history more efficient
There are several ways to improve how you troubleshoot a system. One of the things I consider to be important is the BASH history. Here you can see what commands were executed. Though as default you...
View ArticleIntroduction to lsof
Today I’m going to introduce you to the exciting world of lsof. As you will see, it’s a nifty little tool that has various uses, and it has so many switches that you need both a – and a + to use all...
View ArticleSplit and merge PDFs – part 2
A while ago I wrote a post named Split and merge PDFs with pdftk. Unfortunately, pdftk seems no longer to be maintained for Fedora 21. So we have to use another alternative – poppler-utils: Install the...
View ArticleIntroduction to cron
cron is a time-based job scheduler. This piece of software utility is used when you need to have a program run repeatedly at set time. The daemon that runs in the background is named crond, while the...
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