TuxArena Free PDF Guide! Introduction to Linux Command-Line for Beginners
The first TuxArena PDF ebook “Introduction to Linux Command-Line for Beginners” is now available completely free as a Christmas gift! You can read it online here or download the PDF version. The guide...
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10 Bash Tips for Working Faster With the Shell (Part 1 of 2)
Using !! This command is used to bring back and automatically execute the last command in history. It is the same as pressing C^P followed by Enter). Here’s an example: debian$ cat /etc/debian_version...
View ArticleSecond Free PDF Guide Is Here!
TuxArena is proud to announce the second free PDF giveaway: Command-Line Guide to Audio Files in Ubuntu. You can read it online here or download the PDF from here. The guide explains the basics of...
View Article20 Popular Command-Line Tips for Linux
Take a screenshot in command-line Taking a screenshot in command-line is very easy using the import tool, which is included in the ImageMagick suite. To take a screenshot of a single window use: import...
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8 More Bash Tips for Working Faster With the Shell (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second article in this series, and brings eight additional tips for working faster with the shell. Here is the first article of the series, containing 10 tips. Create aliases for quick...
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15 Great Tools for the Terminal
cmus cmus is a music player that I admire the most when it comes to command-line because it’s really powerful and has a lot of nice features. It is built with ncurses and therefore providing a...
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10 More Great Tools for the Terminal
First of all I’d like to thank TuxArena’s readers for giving good feedback in the first part of this series, which overviews 15 of the tools I consider particularly useful in a console. This article...
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IM from the Terminal: 2 Great Applications
This article is about two popular IM (Instant Messaging) clients that can be used in a terminal instead of a graphical environment. Both have advanced features and are based on the ncurses library....
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10 Console Music Players for Linux
CMus This is one of the best, feature-rich players for console. Build using ncurses and thus offering a text user interface, CMus has several view modes, organizes your music by artist/album, provides...
View ArticleGNOME 3: How to Change the Wallpaper from Command-Line
The older way of doing this, with gconftool-2 doesn’t seem to work anymore in GNOME 3 – used to be something like: gconftool-2 –type string –set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename...
View ArticleTutorial: Using the ‘find’ Command
GNU find is a powerful command-line utility that lets you search for files and folders in a hierarchical tree directory structure. It is the backend for all those utilities out there like the graphical...
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Tutorial: How to Color Man Pages & How It Works
In this tutorial I’ll show how to get some nicely colored man pages by adding several lines inside the .bashrc file, explaining what the code means and how it works. Except for the eye-candy, colors...
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Several Great Linux Terminal Games
tint Standing for TINT Is Not Tetris, that’s exactly what it is. A terminal-based tetris clone with highscore saving and 9 levels. Among the tetris clones for Linux, TINT is one of my favorites. Use J...
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20 Great Terminal Replacements for GUI Applications
Process viewer: htop htop is an improved version of top, a complex process viewer which allows to visualize processes in real time, see memory and CPU consumption, send signals to processes, renice...
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MOC – Playing Music in the Terminal
When it comes to console music players, there are pretty decent options out there, and MOC is one of them. Together with applications like mp3blaster or the powerful CMus program, MOC, which stands for...
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