Linux Tips

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 * Using ssh
 * Transferring files
 * Working with compressed files

Moving and editing on a line
Works for emacs, and also for the terminal command line which particularly useful for the everyday life Esc-f, Esc-b Ctrl-e, Ctrl-a Ctrl-k Esc-d, Esc-Backspace Ctrl-y
 * go towards next(previous) word
 * go to the end(beginning) of a line
 * Cut text towards end of line and put it into the kill ring
 * Kills next(previous) word and put it into the kill ring
 * Paste what is in the kill ring

History of commands
!a will call acroread file.pdf if this was the last command starting with 'a'.
 * a useful command : '!com' recalls the last command which first letters are com. For instance:

history|grep acroread
 * another way to find a command in the history is to pipe the history command to grep:

Handling batch jobs
nohup ./job
 * if you want to send a job on a computer and logout without killing the job:

The coma to point conversion in French environment
if you are working with a configuration of Linux which has not the dot "." as a standard format for floating points data (for instance the coma "," in French), you can add the following two lines in your .bashrc file: LC_NUMERIC=en_US export LC_NUMERIC this will make the job without too many side effects.