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Updating My Linux Command line Toolbox
Over the past few months I’ve been working with some people with many more years of unix-y experience than I have. They’ve been teaching me new stuff, and showing me updated versions of commands I’ve...
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Monitoring Tools: sar
What: sar What it monitors: pretty much every system stat you can imagine (and some you haven’t) Where to get it: it’s probably pre-installed on your system; if not, try the sysstats package (the same...
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Manipulating .pdf files on Linux using Ghostscript
I have to digitally fold, spindle, and mutilate .pdf documents frequently. On Ubuntu, I tried the GiMP, pdftops, pdftk, and some truly tortuous gymnastics involving screencaps, but none of them really...
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Updating My Linux Command line Toolbox, episode 2
Part 1 Five more, all from this week: 1. date -u to get your date in UTC 2. pushd and popd – create your own directory stack. I’m still trying this one out. (“why not just use the up arrow?”) 3....
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Updating My Linux Command line Toolbox, episode 3
Part 2 This week’s tips: 1. ulimit -a will show you all settings, plus the units. 2. crontab -l -u [user] will read out another user’s crontab for you (assuming you have the right perms) 3. and what I...
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