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Listing USB devices on Fedora 7
lsusb command can list all usb devices found, I had Fedora core 7(moonshine) installed and i did not find the command, I had to install usbutils which brings the command: [root@linuxbox ~]# yum -y ins… more →
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Stop Piping Cats
Paul Roach wrote 3 weeks ago: I must be having one of those days….. Reading a page of Unix tips and I got to #10 - Stop Pipi … more →
Mac OS X Commands and Wildcard Characters
koldfyre wrote 3 weeks ago: EDIT: This post have been getting very many views lately so ‘fess up in the comments if you wa … more →
chmod: copy user / owner permissions to group
tony78it wrote 3 weeks ago: This is a useful unix command to copy the file / dir owner permissions to the group: find * -exec /b … more →
Searching
devps wrote 1 month ago: Most useful part. Listing the commands used in unix to achieve this. grep egrep fgrep find strings … more →
Find command tips ...
unixjournal wrote 1 year ago: Finding Max space used by Top 10 Files in MB:============================================ [root@linu … more →
Using NIS commands
sriram003 wrote 1 year ago: NIS+ provides a full set of commands for administering a namespace. nisaddcred Creates credential … more →
Using NIS commands
unixjournal wrote 1 year ago: NIS+ provides a full set of commands for administering a namespace. nisaddcred Creates credential … more →
locate/find/whereis
ekashida wrote 2 years ago: locate - Lists files with the argument in the filename. find - Searches for files in a directory hie … more →
pushd/popd
ekashida wrote 2 years ago: pushd is the same as cd except that it pushes the absolute path of the current directory onto a virt … more →
screen
ekashida wrote 2 years ago: What screen does is multiplex a physical terminal between multiple virtual terminals. screen makes … more →
yes! no!
ekashida wrote 2 years ago: Really cool unix command: yes foo This will result in a stream of foo. Pipe this into another comman … more →
grep
ekashida wrote 2 years ago: -w Whole words -c Count lines -i Ignore case -r Recurse -n line Number -v inVert (non-matching lines … more →
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