A List of Useful Ubuntu (Linux) Commands

There is an article at zaphu.com, A List of Useful Ubuntu (Linux) Commands, that has some decent recipes for Ubuntu beginners.

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~ by paulkiley on November 9, 2008.

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Oh I can’t wait to install my Ubuntu and test these commands out. Thank you for sharing your find.

joannacarr said this on January 19, 2009 at 1:46 pm
INSTALL package
sudo apt-get install [PROGRAM]

install fonts, java engines
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Merge multiple EPS/PDF into single PDF
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=[FILENAME].pdf -dBATCH *.eps
OR
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=[FILENAME].pdf -dBATCH file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

back up your entire user directory to an external hard drive:
/usr/bin/rsync -av –delete /home/[HOME_FOLDER] /media/[EXTERNAL_DISK
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.iso image
mkisofs -r -o [FILENAME].iso /cdrom/

Display folder sizes
du -cskh *

Run MATLAB job without being logged in
nohup matlab -nodisplay -nojvm output.txt &

Enable Ubuntu Firewall
sudo ufw enable
Disable Ubuntu Firewall
sudo ufw status

All active internet connection
sudo netstat -atup

Find things
locate ‘[SEARCH STRING]‘|xargs ls
OR
locate ‘[SEARCH STRING]‘|xargs ls -l

Destiny said this on April 26, 2010 at 6:23 pm