Category: Linux

Restart XServer from command line in Fedora – for testing xorg.conf settings… telinit 3 #Shutdown X telinit 5 #Starts X

To get into single user mode in Linux, stop the boot at grub then edit the kernal you want to…

Execute a command and get its results using python in Linux import commands result = commands.getoutput(“ls”)

This is how you concatinate multiple files in linux… cat file1 file2 file3 > final_file

Some important screen shortcuts Create New : Ctrl+A c Next Screen: Ctrl+A Space Previous : Ctrl+A Backspace Show Screen List:…

Show the headers of an URL using Curl curl http://example.com -I

Search for a specific text in a folder using grep grep “fetchFeedPacksCustomize()” *.js [tags]grep,search,text,folder[/tags]

How to access firefox profiles in Linux… #Open the profile manager. firefox –ProfileManager #Open firefox using the specified profile firefox…

A better way to get the process id of an application. I recommend giving an alias for this command… ps…

Remove all empty directories within the current directory find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \; perl -MFile::Find -e”finddepth(sub{rmdir},’.’)”…