Upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 using FedUp
This is guide, howto upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) using YUM. Old official Preupgrade method is not available anymore on...
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YUM Delete / Remove Old Kernels on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)
This is quick guide howto delete/remove/clean old kernels on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL). I use here two kernel as example, if you want...
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SVN (Subversion) Backup and Restore
This is quick guide, howto Backup (dump) and Restore (load) SVN (Subversion) repository on Linux. This is actually very simple and...
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Solarized Linux
I like very much Ethan Schoonover Solarized color palette. So I decided write a guide, howto get Solarized colors to most commonly used...
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VI and VIM Syntax Highlighting on Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat (RHEL)
This is guide, howto enable Vi and Vim text editor syntax Highlighting on Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat (RHEL). Actually on Fedora, CentOS and...
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Linux: Display / Show File Contents (tabs, line breaks, non-printing characters)
I write before guide, howto create file on Linux shell / command line without text editor (with cat command) and this is guick tip howto...
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Linux: Get IP Address on Command Line/Shell (internal/external)
This is quick tip, howto get internal IP address and external IP address on Linux Shell / Command Line. This guide also show, howto make...
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Quit Bash Shell Without Saving Bash History (5 Methods)
Sometimes it is very useful to delete / remove Bash history partially or completely when log out. Here is my favourite methods howto log...
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Linux Encrypt Files/Decrypt Files – GPG Interactive/Non Interactive Modes
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free software alternative to the PGP suite of cryptographic software. This is quick guide, howto...
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Show Linux Version, Distribution (Distro), System Information
This is quick guide howto show Linux version, howto show Linux distributin (distro) info, howto show Linux System information, kernel...
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List tar/tar.gz/tar.bz2 Contents – List all files in archive.tar
This is quick tip, howto list contents of tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files without unpacking file. This is very useful on server environment...
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Linux: Create Text File on Linux Shell / Command Line
This is a very typical case, the need to create a temp file on the command line quickly. Opening editor, writing content, save file and...
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Linux locate command: Find Files and Directories Quickly and Efficiently
This is quick guide howto find files and directories quick and efficiently on Linux with locate command. Linux find command is outdated,...
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cURL Tip: Check that the Apache Compression (gzip, deflate) is Working
This is a quick method with using cURL to check that Apache Compression with mod_gzip and mod_deflate is working. Only the remote server...
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Add Hostname, Date, Time, Uptime, Load Average to Linux Terminal Title
This tip is really useful if you need/want to monitor multiple servers at the same time. This Tip works, as the tip, by which you can add...
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Delete files securely on Linux – Journaled file systems
Few days ago I write about shred, which work fine for old systems, like EXT2, but not so nice with journaled file systems. Modern file...
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Hide Apache ServerSignature/ServerTokens/PHP X-Powered-By
By default almost all Apache installation shows sensitive server information with Apache version number, server operating system details,...
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Add date and time to Linux terminal title (Gnome Terminal, xterm, urxvt, rxvt)
Here is easy way add date and time to Linux terminal title. This trick works at least following terminals Gnome Terminal, xterm, urxvt,...
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Google search from Linux and UNIX command line
Today I started thinking that how cool is do some Google searches straight from command line. First I try to find some ready tricks from...
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Linux Tip: How to handle a files with a dash as first character from command line
Sometimes you maybe have to handle files with a dash (-) as first character from Linux command line. It can be difficult, because the...
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Calendar (cal) on Linux command line
Sometimes it feels that many of the excellent and convenient command-line tools is forgotten, when they are replaced by graphical tools. A...
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Nano Text Editor and nanorc Tips and Tricks
Nano is easy to use and lightweight command line text editor for Linux and UNIX systems. Nano text editor can use either the default...
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Microsoft Word doc documents handling on Linux command line with Antiword
Sometimes it is convenient and necessary to deal with Microsoft Word doc documents directly on Linux command line. MS Word documents...
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