A JaK Attack! listener sent in this link to the Rute User’s Tutorial and Exposition (recursive acronym, anyone?)
What is RUTE?
Whereas books shelved beside this one will get your feet wet, this one lets you actually paddle for a bit, then thrusts your head underwater while feeding you oxygen.
What does it cover?
This book covers GNU/LINUX system […]
I’m sure you’re all just absolutely thrilled that I’m studying for my LPIC. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have all thes neato posts about obscure Linux commands that you’ll likely never use.
Ah well. Let me get over this first chapter and then we’ll get into the more interesting stuff:)
Today’s command is tac. The tac command is named […]
Touch is a very simple, but incredibly useful GNU/Linux utility.
Touch is designed to literally ‘touch’ a file and change its timestamp to the current date and time. I can think of a few reasons why you might want to do this (updating an older data file to look current, for example), but I’ve found another […]
I had to make sure that I put the ‘using the semi-colon’ part in the title because there are a variety of ways to string commands together in GNU/Linux. Some are more powerful than others (like using the pipe | symbol) and some are just convenient.
The semi-colon operator is more of a convenience than anything […]
I don’t know if this should be a HOWTO or an Explanation, but I’ve decided on Explanation.
The idea behind command substitution is to construct a command that contains a dynamic portion. What the hell does that mean? Well, think of an environment variable like the $HOME variable. On pretty much all standard setup Linux boxes, […]
I recently decided to take my LPI exams and ordered a couple of books to prep for it. The first one I’m reading is the LPI Linux Certification In a Nutshell by Jeffrey Dean. The book starts by jumping right into bash commands. So, guess what? You get to learn along with me.
I think that […]
I don’t know if this is really a ‘new’ user topic. Let’s call it a ‘new administrator’ topic and go from there.
I recently moved my podcast from Libsyn to my own box. About the only thing I miss is the Libsyn stats.
I’m using Loudblog software for my podcast now and while it has a stats […]
Life is funny sometimes.
I posted a quick little video on The Linux Learning Station about how to make Windows fast and stable. It was supposed to be a joke because my primary recommendation at the end was to run Windows within Linux in order to give it stability. It was supposed to be a little […]
The top tool displays the top x number of processes that are using resources on your system. While most desktop users will likely want to use something like Ksysguard (which has a process table tab) instead, some may prefer the speed and elegance of top.
As with many GNU/Linux tools - the output of the top […]
A reader wrote in and asked for more tutorial-type posts. I’m nothing if not mildly-non-apathetic, so I’ll kind of oblige. I say “kind of” because I purposely didn’t create a tutorial category when I formed New Linux User because I don’t think tutorials are particularily suited for blogs. I’m much more likely to find good […]
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