Month: November 2007

Format a partition to Ext3

Format a partition to Ext3 mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/sda10

Manual to Text

Ever wonder how you can get a man page in into a format you can read and print? man command…

Random Noise in Linux

Random Noise in Linux – I cannot think of any practical use for this command. You can use it for…

Google Reader Shortcuts

Some Google Reader Shortcuts j/k item down/up selects the next/previous item in the list s toggle star stars the selected…

Get URL Headers from Linux Command Line

Show the headers of an URL from the command line. This will need perl, lwp installed on the system. lwp-request…

git status Without the Untracked Files

Don’t show the untracked files in git status git status | perl -pe “exit if(/Untracked files\:/)”

Alarm Command in Linux

Command to create an Alarm in Linux echo ‘xmessage “Hello”‘|at 19:00

Crontab Commands

Some command to set, view and remove cron jobs crontab -e #Edit Crons crontab -l #List all crons crontab -r…

Installing a Ruby Gem

Use this command to install a ruby gem in Linux – you must be connected to the net sudo gem…