Tricks and hints

Emmanuel_uk · 01-05-2006, 01:58 AM

About 140 pages of tricks by Mike Chirico (207 tips at the last count)
http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/ho...pen_source.htm

(Have read only the first 5 pages :-)

hi_msh · 01-12-2006, 06:17 AM

V nice thread named tips and tricks. learned a lot as i m a newbie. thanx to all for writing a lot of tips in this single thread.

Emmanuel_uk · 06-10-2006, 07:27 AM

#Append partition label/name to fdisk -l output
#Version 0.01b By Emmanuel_uk using unSpawn kind suggestions
#Tested with ext3 and Reiserfs. Fat ignored.

The script is available from thread called
fdisk -l output with partition label appended - Bash script available
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...43#post2285743
Please use the thread above if you tweak the script (or any discussion related to it)

#Output will be like
#Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
#/dev/sda2 765 1528 6136830 83 Linux --------> somelabel

////// · 06-10-2006, 10:56 PM

ldd `which <progname>`

eg.

ldd `which mplayer`

The output will be a list of the shared libraries on the system that the program needs to run, as well as the missing libraries.

Emmanuel_uk · 07-23-2006, 10:45 AM

Shell script debugging: a few methods are listed in

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...03#post2343403

ygloo · 01-21-2007, 05:39 PM

i use shortcut to commands saved in history -
510 uptime
511 history

!511 <-' (executing again)

medusa · 09-12-2007, 01:40 PM

Have you ever tried to generate a password with mkpasswd and got this error message:

Code:

mkpasswd: no DBM database on system - no action performed

Simply type:

Code:

/usr/bin/mkpasswd -d -l

or whatever option you like and copy the output to whereever you like

Cheers
medusa

frenchn00b · 10-09-2007, 02:25 PM

Here I open the thread :

Purpose: increase the sound with xosd
screenshot: http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/products...PlugIn/tpb.jpg
use: /usr/bin/myvolumeup 10

Code:

#/bin/sh
/usr/bin/amixer set PCM "$1+" ;
osd_cat -p bottom -d 1 -s 1 -o 120   -A center -f "-adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--34-240-100-100-p-182-iso8859-1" -c green -b percentage -P $(amixer get PCM | grep Left: | awk -F" " '{print $5}' | tr -d "[]") -T "Volume"

Thanks for sharing / LINUX is SHARING !

unSpawn · 10-09-2007, 04:30 PM

I'd like to take the time to plug a "Tips 'n tricks" thread which has been running for some years now. Next to the obvious tips and tricks it contains scripts as well: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...957/page8.html

XavierP · 10-09-2007, 04:52 PM

I Have merged this thread into that thread so that all tippery and trickery can be kept in the same place.

micxz · 08-24-2009, 02:38 AM

Reading this great thread! I still see no "tips and tricks" sub-forum. But I suppose they can all can go in "Member Success Stories" right mods? or maybe you could merge my thread to this one? Either way I will post the link:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi....php?p=3653297