Linux Tips

Related pages

• Using ssh
• Transferring files
• Working with compressed files

Miscellaneous

Moving and editing on a line

Works for emacs, and also for the terminal command line which particularly useful for the everyday life

• go towards next(previous) word

Esc-f, Esc-b

• go to the end(beginning) of a line

Ctrl-e, Ctrl-a 

• Cut text towards end of line and put it into the kill ring

Ctrl-k

• Kills next(previous) word and put it into the kill ring

Esc-d, Esc-Backspace

• Paste what is in the kill ring

Ctrl-y

History of commands

• a useful command : '!com' recalls the last command which first letters are com. For instance:

!a

will call acroread file.pdf if this was the last command starting with 'a'.

• another way to find a command in the history is to pipe the history command to grep:

history|grep acroread

Handling batch jobs

• if you want to send a job on a computer and logout without killing the job:

nohup ./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.