free I’ve you want to check your memory consumption on a Linux machine, you can use free. This means: I have a total of 3952 MB RAM, used and free should be clear, shared is memory which is shared between processes, e.g. shared libraries. The “buffers” entry tells you how much of your RAM is [...]
find is a very mighty tool. It allows you to apply a very detailed search syntax. Every Linux user should know how to use it. Very basic usage I told you I would start with the very basics, didn’t I? So, you can need the option -iname if you want to do basic matching against [...]
The bash is very nice if you want to know exactly what your scripts are doing. Unfortunately, its almost always white colored text on a black background, without any accentuation. No bold text, nothing underlined and no colors are used. You can change this standard behaviour. You can add color to your output. This is [...]
The following tipps work under a Linux terminal and were tested with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I guess they will also work with other systems, as the programs are available for them. If you know some further file conversions, please let me know. I am also very interested in Web based conversions. Image Files If you [...]
