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Tail and Head Few Lines of Text Files 2007-11-21 07:50:00 Another covered blog entry covering tail and heads. Tail and heads have been shown being use from several early blog entries here. Here's a quick simple instructions on how to tail last or first few... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Three Easy Steps for Opera on Fedora 8 2007-11-20 10:28:00 Firefox browser has been around quite long now. Firefox (Mozilla) had served millions of pages since its early versions. There are only a few full featured GUI-based browsers that made it to linux... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Alternative Search and Replace Tool 2007-11-20 09:31:00 Search and replace can be done from linux terminal in many ways. Here's another alternative blog entry on doing string replacements, search and replace via terminal using replace linux command. Man... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Display Lines Beginning with a Given String 2007-11-20 09:12:00 The look utility displays any lines in file which contain string as a prefix. Here's a quick entry on how to display lines that begins with a given string or word. # cat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Spell Check Files via Terminal - Install Howto 2007-11-20 07:07:00 Here's another useful command liner utility that can check and correct spelling of a file. How to check the spelling of a HTML file from terminal? How to check the spelling of a Latex file from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Display Linux Session Jobs 2007-11-20 06:45:00 There are times that we execute and let our scripts and/or applications to be executed from the current session inside linux terminal while doing another work. Sometimes we gave them varied process... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Get Linux Disk Space and Usage 2007-11-19 12:28:00 Here's is a command that shows several usage and ways of retrieving disk space usage. This disk space usage command is another abused and bypassed linux command that has been repeated over and over... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Change Linux RunLevels Howto 2007-11-19 09:09:00 Runlevels on linux OS presents major differences on how your linux box will boot up and behave. Runlevels on linux changes a variety of execution patterns on loading up INIT process, environment,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Audacious - Install Howto 2007-11-19 07:34:00 Audacious If you are looking for alternative linux music player besides from XMMS and Amarok, here's another music player that is making it from linux world as well. Audacious site: Audacious is a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Amarok - Howto Install 2007-11-19 06:55:00 Rediscover music with amarok. Amarok is a free music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive and skinnable interface. Amarok makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Sun Java on Fedora 8 Install HowTo 2007-11-17 04:14:00 I am now here creating an installation howto of Sun Java on my newly installed Fedora 8 box. It took me a few days trying to make the latest Sun's Java work perfectly with my F8, which was the main... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

My Fedora 8 Diary 2007-11-16 08:36:00 Fedora 8 is the latest rpm-based linux distribution managed and operated by Planet Fedora which offers the latest and free open source linux softwares. Born to be Fedora Core continuous to be a fully... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Chikka on Kopete Messenger Howto 2007-11-15 23:30:00 How to send FREE SMS to mobiles and cellphones from your PC via Chikka network? How to establish connection to Chikka network via Kopete messenger? How to send SMS to Chikka network (SMART/Globe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Linux Files and Folders Local Copying 2007-11-14 08:18:00 Copying of files and folders had been the root genes of now existing and having restore and backup procedures. Basic and advance copying is being widely practiced nowadays as a major must-to-do... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Linux folders and directories recursive removal 2007-11-14 07:04:00 I have been noticing with all my old linux blog entries that most other simple commands are being covered and taken from a single blog entry. These linux commands have not been pinpointed by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...