Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
10 favorite Linux tips... (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455) Well, I don't know is the url is corret or not but I would like to write one of my favourite tips. It's one about bash. Everybody knows that you can finish the commands with the tab key. Well, I came from the windoze world, and this is to me a wonderfull thing. This is a simple, easy thing that everybody can do, and help you a lot. Nothing more. Leo I just read a Top 10 Tips for Linux Users Top 10 Tips for Linux Users , and this made me think... Everyone has its own favorite tips, any mine are certainly different from his: I never leave the bash, and use perl + xemacs for most of the work, so i do not consider "changing a shell" so important , and there is nothing better for printing man-pages than xemacs + pretty-print. The rest is OK, except for the last tip, since you get this out of the box for Mandrake-linux. I guess my favorite Linux tip is: use private/public keypair for ssh! And LM 7.1 comes with a special surprise: Once you have generated such keypair with "ssh-keygen", your X-session will be started as ancestor of "ssh-agent". So, all you have to do is just copy the public key to machines where you want to log-in, and make sure to run "ssh-add". For the rest of the day you will not have to type any passwords. :-)) How about YOUR favorite tips? begin:vcard n:Palomo;Leopold x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;Catalonia version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;-29952 fn:Leopold Palomo end:vcard
Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
Not only can you complete commands but bash is smart enough complete filenames arguments to commands too. I recall hearing somewhere that Windows 2000 was going to have tab completion now but I don't know if this came to be. In any case it's about time they did! Tony On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Leopold Palomo pushed some tiny letters in this order: Everybody knows that you can finish the commands with the tab key. Well, I came from the windoze world, and this is to me a wonderfull thing. This is a simple, easy thing that everybody can do, and help you a lot. Nothing more. Leo
RE: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
Nope... Windows 2000 STILL does not have tab completion... :-( -Original Message- From: Leopold Palomo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 September 2000 07:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips... Good point. You are completaly right. Leo Not only can you complete commands but bash is smart enough complete filenames arguments to commands too. I recall hearing somewhere that Windows 2000 was going to have tab completion now but I don't know if this came to be. In any case it's about time they did! Tony On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Leopold Palomo pushed some tiny letters in this order: Everybody knows that you can finish the commands with the tab key. Well, I came from the windoze world, and this is to me a wonderfull thing. This is a simple, easy thing that everybody can do, and help you a lot. Nothing more. Leo
Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
Ok, ok, ok, everybody is right. I complete: Everybody knows that you can finish the: commands, complete filenames, arguments, environment variables, usernames, ... with the tab key. Well, I came from the windoze world, and this is to me a wonderfull thing. This is a simple, easy thing that everybody can do, and help you a lot. Not only can you complete commands but bash is smart enough complete filenames arguments to commands too. I recall hearing somewhere that Windows 2000 was going to have tab completion now but I don't know if this came to be. In any case it's about time they did! Tony On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Leopold Palomo pushed some tiny letters in this order: Everybody knows that you can finish the commands with the tab key. Well, I came from the windoze world, and this is to me a wonderfull thing. This is a simple, easy thing that everybody can do, and help you a lot. Nothing more. Leo begin:vcard n:Palomo;Leopold x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;Catalonia version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;-29952 fn:Leopold Palomo end:vcard
Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
Win2k actually does have tab completion but it doesn´t work that well as in linux and only on files and directories. Just to finish off this thread, it really isn´t Linux related but since I use Win2k as well as linux at work I missed the completion in windows and found a way. Start regedit - HKEY_CURRENT_USER-SOFTWARE-MICROSOFT-Command Processor There you will find a label, "CompletionChar" (if not create it) Just enter the DWORD value 9 for TAB and there you have it. Be sure to use the CMD shell and not Command, for some obscure reason. It is supposed to work for NT4 aswell, haven´t tested it though. Mads - Original Message - From: "Izak Fourie / IIS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:31 PM Subject: RE: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips... Nope... Windows 2000 STILL does not have tab completion... :-( -Original Message- From: Leopold Palomo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 September 2000 07:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips... Good point. You are completaly right. Leo Not only can you complete commands but bash is smart enough complete filenames arguments to commands too. I recall hearing somewhere that Windows 2000 was going to have tab completion now but I don't know if this came to be. In any case it's about time they did! Tony On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Leopold Palomo pushed some tiny letters in this order: Everybody knows that you can finish the commands with the tab key. Well, I came from the windoze world, and this is to me a wonderfull thing. This is a simple, easy thing that everybody can do, and help you a lot. Nothing more. Leo
Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
Thus spake Mads Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Win2k actually does have tab completion but it doesn´t work that well as in linux and only on files and directories. There used to be an excellent shell for DOS (and OS/2) called 4DOS. Shareware IIRC. This had completion (and had it back in 1988 when I started using it) Nor is completion a new feature in bash; emacs has long had filename completion and was it the C shell which also did? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
RE: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
JP Software, the makers of 4DOS, also make Take Command/32 with gives a lot of command line power to those (like me) forced to live in 32 bit Windows. Matt -Original Message- From: Deryk Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips... Thus spake Mads Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Win2k actually does have tab completion but it doesn´t work that well as in linux and only on files and directories. There used to be an excellent shell for DOS (and OS/2) called 4DOS. Shareware IIRC. This had completion (and had it back in 1988 when I started using it) Nor is completion a new feature in bash; emacs has long had filename completion and was it the C shell which also did? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
Mike Bowley wrote: Deno Did that URL actually work for you? I get a "host not found" error. I managed to find the top 10 tips article at :- http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455 same thing happens to me. Ditto for ping. Maybe the host is down... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
[expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
10 favorite Linux tips... (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455) I just read a Top 10 Tips for Linux Users Top 10 Tips for Linux Users , and this made me think... Everyone has its own favorite tips, any mine are certainly different from his: I never leave the bash, and use perl + xemacs for most of the work, so i do not consider "changing a shell" so important , and there is nothing better for printing man-pages than xemacs + pretty-print. The rest is OK, except for the last tip, since you get this out of the box for Mandrake-linux. I guess my favorite Linux tip is: use private/public keypair for ssh! And LM 7.1 comes with a special surprise: Once you have generated such keypair with "ssh-keygen", your X-session will be started as ancestor of "ssh-agent". So, all you have to do is just copy the public key to machines where you want to log-in, and make sure to run "ssh-add". For the rest of the day you will not have to type any passwords. :-)) How about YOUR favorite tips?
RE: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
Deno Did that URL actually work for you? I get a "host not found" error. I managed to find the top 10 tips article at :- http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455 Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 September 2000 14:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips... 10 favorite Linux tips... (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455) I just read a Top 10 Tips for Linux Users Top 10 Tips for Linux Users , and this made me think... Everyone has its own favorite tips, any mine are certainly different from his: I never leave the bash, and use perl + xemacs for most of the work, so i do not consider "changing a shell" so important , and there is nothing better for printing man-pages than xemacs + pretty-print. The rest is OK, except for the last tip, since you get this out of the box for Mandrake-linux. I guess my favorite Linux tip is: use private/public keypair for ssh! And LM 7.1 comes with a special surprise: Once you have generated such keypair with "ssh-keygen", your X-session will be started as ancestor of "ssh-agent". So, all you have to do is just copy the public key to machines where you want to log-in, and make sure to run "ssh-add". For the rest of the day you will not have to type any passwords. :-)) How about YOUR favorite tips?
