I used to use insync to access my Google Drive account from the command line because it was reliable, however insync ceased support for their CLI client, so I had…
Category: Just the examples
There are hundreds of thousands of books and tutorials out there that go into length about a command that does this and that, but they fall flat of just having a few commonly used, real world example. This category of goodness cuts through the cruft, gives you the command and a quick ‘what it does’ summary. That’s it!
How to disable ‘recently used files’ in Ubuntu 18.04
Sometimes it’s nice to see the files that you have recently accessed. They are in the file browser (Nautilus), just up in the top left under ‘Recent files’. Sometimes, however,…
How to install Firefox Quantum and speed up your web browsing
Foxy little number This week, the web’s been ablaze, on fire even (pardon the pun) with the release of Firefox Quantum. Apparently it’s 2x faster and uses 30% less memory…
How To List All Installed Packages In Linux
Quick howto: List all installed packages in Linux In today’s quick ‘just the examples’ howto, we show you how to find out what packages are installed on your Linux system…
Using sed to find and replace text files in Linux
nixCraft have a good tutorial for the new Linux user/admin. In this example, the tutorial is to answer the question “how do I find the text called ‘foo’ and replaced…
How to set the default terminal (or window manager, browser, and much more) in Linux
Ever wondered how your Linux system chooses the default Terminal Emulator, web browser, window manager, text editor, particular version of an app (eg, php5 vs 7/python2.7 vs 3)? Wonder no…
Quick tip: Add a user to the sudoers group
Situation: A new user on your server needs to have admin, or ‘root’ user access. Rather than enabling the root account, or giving out the password details to your elevated account,…
Disable logging in with the root account
Say you got a new server set up on a VPS system, such as DigitalOcean. These servers often are set up with a root account and not a non-privileged account…