Archive for the ‘Command Line’ Category

Using Blogit Vim Script To Manage Your WordPress Site

Posted on: July 23rd, 2012 by No Comments

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This is a cool little script that I just recently came across which allows you to manage your WordPress articles using vim. I can imagine the mere proposal of editing your WordPress posts using the…

Pacman Package Manager

Posted on: March 21st, 2012 by No Comments

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Pacman is the standard package manager for all Arch-based systems. While its usage is actually fairly simple, it may initially throw off users who are used to the APT or RPM family of packaging tools.

Unlike apt-get or yum, where you name a utility and tell it what to do (e.g. apt-get install [package] or yum search [package]), Pacman integrates the operation into its flags, as an uppercase letter, and options as lowercase letters. For example,

IRSSI Command Line IRC Client

Posted on: December 16th, 2011 by No Comments

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For everyone looking for an IRC client available from the command line here it is. IRSSI is a tool that I have been using for quite some time, and it works great. IRSSI also has a number of features that can greatly enhance your experience.

Why Use IRSSI?

So if you are a chat fiend IRSSI might be the application for you, you can connect with people from all over the world. IRC is still one of the most widely used chat services world wide, and one of the oldest.

Manage A Task List From The Command Line

Posted on: November 18th, 2011 by No Comments

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Here is another fantastic command line tool I have just recently come across. Now you can manage a task list from the command line.

Manage Tasks With More Efficiency

Though there are several commands to remember, you only need a few of them. This little CLI tool is extremely useful, that is if you have a wall full of post-it notes.

LAMP Server Introduction

Posted on: November 17th, 2011 by No Comments

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A LAMP server is a combined group of open source software that works together as a web server. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Of course different web scripting languages can be used in place of PHP, such as Perl, and Python. And generally similar servers can be set up on Mac or Windows as well.

IRC Internet Relay Chat Never Dies

Posted on: October 12th, 2011 by No Comments

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IRC is a chat program that supports private chats or public chat channels, and it has millions of users. There are several different IRC servers available to choose from, you only require a client on your end.

For Faster Text Editing Use Vi

Posted on: September 7th, 2011 by No Comments

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Many users stick with Gedit or other GUI based text editors. But what happens when your computer won't boot and simply editing that one line of a single text file can fix your problem? That is when vi saves the day.

Vi Offers Maximum Speed

Some users actually prefer to use a command line text editor at all times just for speed and productivity. Vi differs from GUI text editors in many ways.

Zenity The Simple GUI Creation Tool

Posted on: February 20th, 2011 by 4 Comments

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Try Zenity to manually create your own customized GUI windows displaying buttons, information, file selection, error output, lists, calendars and more. Windows are highly customizable and scalable. Window titles can be set manually as well…

Linux Command Line Tar Archives

Posted on: February 19th, 2011 by 2 Comments

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When using Linux you will commonly come across files compressed in the .tar or tar.gz format. These can easily be extracted from the command line along with many other file types. How To Handle Tar…

Using Rar Unrar In The Command Line

Posted on: February 7th, 2011 by 2 Comments

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Here you can learn how to use the rar and unrar programs from the Linux command line. You can learn how to install this tool, and how to extract rar archives.

Rar And Unrar

Rar is used to archive packages, while Unrar is used to extract existing archives. Thankfully the options for both tools are quite similar.