Linux category archive

Quickly, and efficiently, mass rename files in bash

June 18th, 2008 | How To, Linux, OS X, Ubuntu | 1 comment

Quick tip for everyone who is using Mac OS X, Unix, or anything with bash. If you want to mass rename a bunch of files, there isn’t a simple way of doing it. Either you would have to do it manually1 or you could use this simple line of code.

ls ryan.* | awk ‘{print("mv "$1" [...]

Game that makes you think: Passage

January 12th, 2008 | Linux, OS X, Windows | No comments

It’s been a long while since I’ve sat down and played a video game, especially on my macbook. Today I ran into a simple, yet very thought-provoking game, Passage. Albeit, the game can be played on Windows, Linux, and Mac. As you can see in the screenshot above, it’s a 8-bit type game with [...]

Conky

March 6th, 2007 | How To, Linux, Ubuntu | 2 comments

I’ve been asked several times about how I set up my Conky. First a little about Conky. It is a light-weight system monitor, according to their website, but you can do much more. You can show basic system stats to grab RSS Feeds to show your Media Player (Amarok for me) status.
Now onto my configurations. [...]

Create a list of installed packages

January 21st, 2007 | How To, Ubuntu | No comments

Ever wanted to know what applications are actually installed on your system? Sure you can view the applications via the applications bar, but there are so many other applications not shown there.
Also, what if you have your system with all the applications you want and want to install them again on another pc (or after [...]

Gnome and Google Calendar

January 16th, 2007 | Linux, Ubuntu | No comments

Britt Selvitelle writes on how to combine Google Calendar and Ubuntu. His post is based on Bryan Clark’s post on Mashing Google Calendar and GNOME.
Let’s get down to business.
First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + F2 and type in terminal. Now that you [...]

Change default editor

January 14th, 2007 | Linux, Ubuntu | 2 comments

There is a quick way to change your default editor, whichever you want.
First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + F2 and type in terminal. Now that you have a terminal open, let’s get down to viewing your history.
Open up .bashrc by typing:

gedit ~/.bashrc

Now [...]

View and Change bash history

January 14th, 2007 | Linux, Ubuntu | 3 comments

Always wanted to know what you have been doing via bash? Did you know bash keeps a history of that? Here is a quick way to check it and an easy way to change the history limit.
First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + [...]

Remove temp folder contents on shutdown

January 14th, 2007 | Ubuntu | 1 comment

A few days ago Codejacked wrote an article talking about Delete your TEMP files on shutdown for Windows. As much as I loved the article, I have recently switched over to Ubuntu. Like all Operating Systems, GNU Linux has temporary files also. Here’s how to delete them on shutdown.

Back up what you’re going to working [...]

Free Games

January 13th, 2007 | Linux, Ubuntu | 2 comments

Who doesn’t love games? There are many amazing games out there that you have to pay for, but why would you when you have FREE ones that are as amazing? I decided to keep an on-going list of free games (usually under Ubuntu GNU Linux).

Name: Neverball
How to install:

sudo aptitude install neverball

Name: Tremulous
How to install:

sudo aptitude [...]

Show My Computer, My Documents, and Trash

January 13th, 2007 | Ubuntu | No comments

If you are/were a Windows user, you are used to having “My Computer”, “My Documents” and/or “Recycle Bin” icons on your desktop. Well, Ubuntu can do this also. Here are 3 simple sets to do this.

Hit ALT-F2 and type: gconf-editor
Select Apps > Nautilus > Desktop
Check/uncheck the boxes for computer_icon_visible, documents_icon_visible, or trash_icon_visible.

Source: ubuntu-tutorials.com.