Well these Vim tips have really been one of the more popular topics to come through this blog in a while. I’d like to keep with tradition and keep these going each Friday. This weeks tip is reverting or redoing changes based on time, vs simply the undo command (‘u’) and redo command (‘ctrl-r’). From… Read More »
Vim is the greatest editor of all time. Let me tell you! Every week when I go to put together a new tip there is just so much to offer. I can keep this going for years! If you haven’t started using vim yet start! Now vim has a really comprehensive search function using the… Read More »
A linux machine has a logging system which keeps track of what everything is doing. Anytime you authorize with sudo it gets logged. Anytime you (or someone else) connects via ssh it gets logged. Apache logs connections, mail servers log emails sent and refused. Pretty much everything keeps a log of what it is doing… Read More »
I was reminded this week of something that I often show people but I have never actually written down in a post. This may be old news to some of you, but when has that stopped me in the past!? Now I should preface this with a warning that my boss pointed out to me.… Read More »
Well you asked for it. Last week I did the first vim tip of the week and it looks like you all want more. I got another goodie today that you might enjoy. How many of you know what SHIFT-K does in command mode? No, don’t go look it up. Do you know right now?… Read More »
I just realized I’ve never blogged about a really cool tool that I’m sure you’ll be impressed with. If you’ve used top, or use top to ever try to get an idea of what is running on your machine you’ll really like htop. From the package description: Htop is an ncurses-based process viewer similar to… Read More »
I related the below story tonite in our Ubuntu Utah meeting and John asked me to blog the details and the howto. This is for you buddy 🙂 A few months ago I was in Chicago to take the Redhat Certified Engineer exam. By day I attended class and by night I studied the book… Read More »
This week I’m teaching out in Portland, OR in a Linux Fundamentals class. A small part of one of this weeks chapter is on screen. You might remember I’ve talked about screen in the past here. I still use screen on a day to day basis and really enjoy it. Today I’ve got something new… Read More »
Recently I did a lecture on the magical world of vim. Despite having used it for quite a long time I realize there is still far more that I could know about it, but there is also more that I haven’t published on this blog. Some of you might remember some of my earlier posts… Read More »
Do you have a set of commands that you find you repeat over and over in your daily use? Things like connecting to servers over ssh, rsyncing data launching apps with a slew of argumets. You know what I mean. Well you can make things easier on yourself by creating alias commands for your account.… Read More »