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9 Really Useful Tricks With pv- Pipe Viewer
pv allows a user to see the progress of data through a pipeline, by giving information such as time elapsed, percentage completed (with progress bar), current throughput rate, total data transferred, and ETA. Here’s a nice list of cool ways you can use pv 1) Simulate typing echo “You can simulate on-screen typing just like…
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How To Install Fonts In Fedora Easily
I have a massive collection of TrueType fonts that I want to add to my Fedora fc 14 installation. Installing TrueType fonts in new versions of Fedora is actually quite easy. To install the font system wide, all you need to do is put it in the fonts in a directory. To be consistent, create…
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7 Cool Ways To Use The Man Pages In Linux
Man pages (short for manual pages) are the extensive documentation that comes preinstalled with almost all substantial Unix and Unix-like operating systems. The Unix command used to display them is man. Each page is a self-contained document. Usage To read a manual page for a Unix command, one can use man <command_name> 1) Create a…
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NOT – The Best 25 Linux Commands
Here is another installment of Command Line Gems, I present you with the “Not” The best Linux Commands. 1) Save an HTML page, and covert it to a .pdf file wget $URL | htmldoc –webpage -f “$URL”.pdf – ; xpdf “$URL”.pdf & Uses htmldoc to perform the conversion 2) backup and synchronize entire remote folder…