Monthly Archives: August 2009

Print the exact contents for a file

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

If you want to print the exact contents of a file (the white spaces, the new lines), use this command: more file_name | od -c

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Count number of lines in a text file

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

wc -l file_name

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Extract Lines From a Text File

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

“sed -n 2,4p file_name” extracts lines from 2 to 4 from that file

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How to compress using bzip2 without deleting the original file

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

bzip2 deletes the original file and replaces it by the compressed one, and to stop it from doing that use the “-k” option as follows: “bzip2 -k file_name“

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XFCE 4.6, an amazingly fast – yet good-looking – Desktop Environment For Linux

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I was always using GNOME as my default Desktop Environment in Ubuntu (which comes by default), and I have tried many others such as KDE, XFCE …etc), and I always admired GNOME the most as it has a good balance … Continue reading →

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