TuxTraining

Many of the utilities in Ubuntu Linux use a text editor to allow you to edit configuration options and files. An example of this is using the crontab command, which allows you to edit your cron jobs using the default editor.

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fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. fish supports syntax highlighting and generally makes reading a terminal, as well as text documents, much easier. I’ve included a screenshot example, but you can see the rest here.

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rtorrent is a command line bit torrent client for unix-based systems. It’s relatively simple to use. To install:

• on Suse I was unable to find anything in the repo’s. So i grabbed the source from here

  rpm -Uvh rtorrent-0.7.6-1.1.i586.rpm
  rpm -Uvh libtorrent-0.11.6-1.1.i586.rpm
  

  (both packages are available at the link above)

• run the application: rtorrent

Usage

To simply download a torrent do the following:

rtorrent http://extratorrent.com/download/666052/openSUSE-10+2-GM-DVD-i386-iso.torrent

For further options see the man page and the user guide.

mpg123 is a command line mp3 player for unix-based systems. It’s relatively simple to use. To install:

• on Fedora: yum install mpg123
• on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install mpg123
• on openSuse: zypper in mpg123
• run the application:

mpg123 /home/username/song.mp3

or

mpg123 -C /home/username/music_folder/

Ta da.

By using the -C switch, keyboard controls are enabled and by default you can use ’s’ to stop, ‘p’ to pause, ‘f’ to jump forward to the next song, ‘b’ to jump back to the beginning of the song, ‘,’ to rewind, ‘.’ to fast forward, and ‘q’ to quit. Type ‘h’ for a full list of available controls.

ImageMagick is a software suite used for image manipulation and display, supporting many image formats. ImageMagick software mainly uses command line interface for image manipulation. You can use this software to do tasks such as rotate, scale, resize, flip, shear, display and many more. You can do the image manipulation job much faster using command line interface and it is easier to use.

Now, I will walk you through the steps to install ImageMagick software suite.

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