Commands special

Written by Carl Friis-Hansen

Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:56

List all installed programs to installed.txt:

aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' > installed.txt

List with comments of installed programs to installed-info.txt:

dpkg -l > installed.txt

Change the display model:

gksu displayconfig-gtk

Compute the Levenshtein distance between two strings:

nearly <stringOne> <stringTwo>

Scan page with HP3015 laser to image.tiff image:

scana4 > image.tiff

Safe copy using SSH:

scp user@backuphost//path/to/backup.file /destpath/.

Modify keyboard layout:

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Last Updated on Monday, 22 June 2009 18:24

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