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basis. Use it only when the graphical user interface (GUI) is not responding.Another trick: if the GUI is not responding and you have unsaved work, you can recover some of itfrom the command line, by accessing one of Linux's virtual terminals. Ubuntu starts, by default, sevenvirtual terminals and the graphical user interface starts on terminal 7. To access any of the seventerminals use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F7. A prompt will appear asking you to log in and, after logging in,you can run some commands to close processes and save work before exiting. To get back to the userinterface, hit Ctrl + Alt + F1.
Chapter 6. Terminal ArtAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Even though the command line seems boring to a lot ofpeople, it can become great fun. It all comes down to your imagination. Terminals can be stylish andcan give a good impression, especially the ones we see in the movies. Colors, ASCII art, andanimations can make our terminal come alive. So, here comes some terminal art!In this chapter, we will cover the following:Working with some Linux commands to have fun withEver heard of fortune cookies? Do you want to have them without getting fat? Just run the followingapt command to install the utilities that we will be using in this chapter:sudo apt install fortune cowsay cmatrixThen run this command:fortune
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Why subscribe?Fully searchable acro
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PrefaceOur mission is to save Linux
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What you need for this bookIdeally,
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ConventionsIn this book, you will f
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Customer supportNow that you are th
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PiracyPiracy of copyrighted materia
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Chapter 1. IntroductionThis book is
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Terminator - the ultimate terminalT
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Preferences menuIt's an customizing
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And voila! This is our newly config
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Ctrl + Shift + E for a vertical spl
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Text zoom: Ctrl + + and Ctrl + -
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Guake - not Quake!Terminator works
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I believe you can guess what this d
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We can use Guake in full screen by
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The tool is automatically added to
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For example, we might want to updat
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With ClipIt, you can copy and paste
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Vim is renowned for its exotic keyb
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Press the Insert key again to go to
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productive in the coolest terminal
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instructions for installing the oh-
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Let's create a file, say readme.md.
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You can now see the branch name in
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History navigation: Click on arrow
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To see a list of shortcuts, run the
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joe is the string we are searching
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If we don't know exactly what chara
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To find all the lines that have onl
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This will replace every occurrence
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Pipes and subshells - your shell's
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"df -h": This shows the disk usage
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ps aux: This prints all processes w
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cat lorem.txt| tr " " "\n": Transfo
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imagination and how well you learn
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As you can see, the value test is p
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In our case, we will be selecting f
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esacdoneecho "invalid option"exit 1
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./script.sh --ip wlp3s0We can see t
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This way we can start the script, w
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Shell scripting librariesTo really
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of the current working directory (o
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case ${CMD} inpublicip)print_public
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Supercharging VimLet's start by ope
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Let's choose desert!
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We can do the same thing for xml fi
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Keyboard kung fuNow that we have Vi
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Other handy shortcuts are:G: Go to
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cat lorem.txt | tr " " "\n" | grep
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When Vim splits the screen, it open
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Plugin steroids for VimIn this sect
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As we can see, before installing sn
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Here we can see all the snippets av
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A page describing the different enc
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It also has the benefit that it's s
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Using heredocs is a common techniqu
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Sed - one-liner productivity treasu
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If we check the content of the file
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As you can see, the text was update
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You can run, but you can't hide…
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You see here that both readme.md an
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You can see here all files that don
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Find can also locate files based on
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A good folder to search is ~/.local
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As we can see, electron has a few e
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In order to do this, we combine fin
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tmux - virtual consoles, background
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This will kill the running session.
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Network - Who's listening?When work
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Other useful information we get fro
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non-standard. To actually connect t
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hostnames and ports. For a deeper u
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Now let's do the same thing for pro
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autoenv: Are you sure you want to a
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export environment=devexport versio
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Autoenv can really come in handy, a
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Let's assume we don't need the file
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Chapter 5. Developers' TreasureIn t
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Clicking on the button generates a
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This will create a JPEG image with
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