Posts Tagged ‘Command Line’

Linux Command Line Cheat Sheets

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

The ultimate collection of about seventy printable Linux command line cheat sheets.

Link: Scott Klarr

New Users Guide To The Terminal

Monday, January 21st, 2008

The command line. It strikes fear in the hearts of many a new Linux user. They open their terminals reluctantly, and there the prompt sits, with the cursor blinking in rhythm with their racing hearts. What does that blinking cursor want? It’s expecting something… It wants something…

These are the commands we’ve found are most useful to new users. They range from basic navigation to commands that are great for troubleshooting.There are two major navigation commands. There are more, of course, but these two will have you tooling around your computer in no time.

Link: Download Squad

Hot Image Your PC’s Hard Drive

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

You don’t need a complicated boot CD or expensive software to create a restorable system disk image for your PC: free utility DriveImage XML can save a full, working snapshot of your Windows hard drive while you work on it. (That’s hot.) When your PC crashes and burns or just slows down over time, the best insurance you can have is a mirror image of your operating system, complete with drivers, user settings, software applications, and documents in one place. A while back we covered how to partition and image your Windows hard drive using the Linux-based System Recovery Boot CD, a process that involves command line work, disk-burning, rebooting, and video driver wrangling. With DiskImage XML, imaging your PC’s hard drive is a matter of a few clicks, no reboots required.

Link: Lifehacker

Advanced searching for Windows

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Windows Grep is a tool for searching files for text strings that you specify. Although Windows and many other programs have file searching capabilities built-in, none can match the power and versatility of Windows Grep. The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft Windows.

Link: Windows Grep