Comments on: 20 Useful, Common Linux (Ubuntu) Commands for New Users

By: jail

jail — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:57:58 +0000

I tend to use alot of sudo commands and very few others…… Feedback would be much appreciated.

By: jail

jail — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:56:22 +0000

same here dan
i wish i could just run thru command all the time and strickly use my graphics for such things that require them .. FB … and such

By: jail

jail — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:53:49 +0000

im just getting started… i know a few commands and love my ubuntu 10.4 .. I learn something new everyday.. love it great os and any terminal commands would greatly help out … I really try to avoid GuI if possible

By: Dan the ubuntu Man

Dan the ubuntu Man — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:02:45 +0000

These were helpful! I dropped them into my anki deck for memorization.

Other ones I’ve found useful…

man -k KEYWORD

Searches man pages for a keyword within any given entry.

Ctrl+r searches previous commandline history rapidly.

I particularly liked your one on copying down CD’s as iso files from the commandline. Would love to know how to burn an iso from the commandline as well.

By: HowtoMatrix

HowtoMatrix — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:27:35 +0000

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By: Sephi

Sephi — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:15:20 +0000

10) A shorter way :
sudo cp /xxxxxx/sources.list{,.bak}

12) A shorter way :
sudo halt

17) An easier way which doesn’t require root privileges (don’t know if it works if the drive is busy) :
eject

By: HowtoMatrix

HowtoMatrix — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:35:28 +0000

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By: Jady L.

Jady L. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:23:30 +0000

ffmpeg -i input.flv -f mp3 -vn -acodec copy ouput.mp3 sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=0 sudo swapoff -a

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:55:37 +0000

alias ll='ls -l'
#(might want to stick that in your ~/.bashrc file)

pwd
#to find out where you are

whoami
#useful if you’re on a server and switch users a lot

#and of course…..
man
#never again will you have to face RTFM

By: BigWhale

BigWhale — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:51:09 +0000

I’d add three more:

21) Finding (case insensitive) files or directories:

find /relative/path -iname "filename"

22) Checking which executable file you’re actually running:

which filename

23) Deleting all filenames (and only files, not directories) with the same name anywhere on your drives (careful with this one)

find /realtive/path -type f -name "filename" -exec rm {} ;