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Convert PDF to Text on Linux
Some people might encounter the experience that they can't view a pdf file they want from a terminal when no GUI is available. This is when pdftotext comes in handy. This utility allows you to export a pdf file to a plain text format and view from any text editor. It also allows you to export only certain parts of the pdf file. [ Read More ]
Useful Linux Commands
I have compiled a list of useful linux commands for day to day operation.
make a pdf of a manual page
Run a low priority command
Go to previous directory
Go to dir, execute command and return to current dir
Make compressed archive of dir/
Extract archive (use gzip instead of bzip2 for tar.gz files)
Display a calendar for a particular month year
What date is it this friday.
What day does xmas fall on, this year
Convert seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 UTC) to date
Email reminder
Show name and version of distribution
Show all partitions registered on the system
Download url at 1AM to current dir
You can find more commands from Linux Commands - A Practical Reference.
Or more on Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets for Linux Commands [ Read More ]
make a pdf of a manual page
user@www$ man -t man | ps2pdf - > man.pdf
Run a low priority command
user@www$ nice <command>
Go to previous directory
user@www$ cd -
Go to dir, execute command and return to current dir
user@www$ (cd dir && command)
Make compressed archive of dir/
user@www$ tar -c dir/ | bzip2 > dir.tar.bz2
Extract archive (use gzip instead of bzip2 for tar.gz files)
user@www$ bzip2 -dc dir.tar.bz2 | tar -x
Display a calendar for a particular month year
user@www$ cal 9 2008
What date is it this friday.
user@www$ date -d fri
What day does xmas fall on, this year
user@www$ date --date='25 Dec' +%A
Convert seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 UTC) to date
user@www$ date --date='@2147483647'
Email reminder
user@www$ echo "mail -s 'reminder' user@address.com < /dev/null" | at 20:00
Show name and version of distribution
user@www$ head -n1 /etc/issue
Show all partitions registered on the system
user@www$ cat /proc/partitions
Download url at 1AM to current dir
user@www$ echo 'wget url' | at 01:00
You can find more commands from Linux Commands - A Practical Reference.
Or more on Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets for Linux Commands [ Read More ]
Using VI while Viewing Files In More or Less
When you are viewing text files using more/less command, sometimes you would like to edit that particular file directly using vi without going back to shell and fire up another command. You can do that easily by doing the following. [ Read More ]
Running Internet Explorer in Linux
IEs4Linux is the simple way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on any Linux which runs Wine. All you need is one script to setup different versions of IE on your machine. It’s free and open source and will be very useful for designers and web developers to test their applications in the legacy browsers. [ Read More ]