TuxArena Free PDF Guide! Introduction to Linux Command-Line for Beginners
The first TuxArena PDF ebook “Introduction to Linux Command-Line for Beginners” is now available completely free as a Christmas gift! You can read it online here or download the PDF version. The guide...
View ArticleSecond Free PDF Guide Is Here!
TuxArena is proud to announce the second free PDF giveaway: Command-Line Guide to Audio Files in Ubuntu. You can read it online here or download the PDF from here. The guide explains the basics of...
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15 Great Tools for the Terminal
cmus cmus is a music player that I admire the most when it comes to command-line because it’s really powerful and has a lot of nice features. It is built with ncurses and therefore providing a...
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10 More Great Tools for the Terminal
First of all I’d like to thank TuxArena’s readers for giving good feedback in the first part of this series, which overviews 15 of the tools I consider particularly useful in a console. This article...
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IM from the Terminal: 2 Great Applications
This article is about two popular IM (Instant Messaging) clients that can be used in a terminal instead of a graphical environment. Both have advanced features and are based on the ncurses library....
View ArticleGNOME 3: How to Change the Wallpaper from Command-Line
The older way of doing this, with gconftool-2 doesn’t seem to work anymore in GNOME 3 – used to be something like: gconftool-2 –type string –set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename...
View ArticleTutorial: Using the ‘find’ Command
GNU find is a powerful command-line utility that lets you search for files and folders in a hierarchical tree directory structure. It is the backend for all those utilities out there like the graphical...
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Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works
In this tutorial I’ll show how to get some nicely colored man pages by adding several lines inside the .bashrc file, explaining what the code means and how it works. Except for the eye-candy, colors...
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