People new to Linux tend to react to any reference of the Linux shell terminal with fright. But there is nothing scary about our beloved shell terminal, or what we most commonly call the command-line interface (CLI) or simple the command-line. It is a very powerful place to interact with Linux. Every operating system has its own “command-line,” including Windows.
Using the stock terminal or Roxterm ...
Has anyone had issues with the command line history, under Fedora 18, with regard to using the up and down arrows to go back and forward in said history? When I cycle through a few of the last commands my command line becomes unreadable, with commands overlapping one another.
I needed to run convert with a lot of images at the same time. The command took quite a while but this doesn't bother me.
The issue is that this command rendered my computer unusable while the command was running (for about 15 minutes).
So is it possible to throttle the command by limiting resources (processor and memory) to the command, directly from the command line?
If you're a Linux newbie who wants to learn a bit more about the command line, or if you want to chain a few commands together to get some special output, we have a new tool for you to try. We call it TermBuilder, and it's a web-based command-line generator for Linux and other compatible Unixes.
I'm often compiling stuff and therefore repeating the same command over and over, so I'd like to benefit from my "visual memory" and have a sort of "repeat last command" button attached to a terminal. More precisely, here is how I see it:
My "special" terminal would be just like a standard terminal emulator, with an extra input line at the bottom, which would have a "run" button attached to it.
By Rand Whitehall
In the Linux command line shell, moving around from directory to directory, adding new directories, and deleting old directories is easy once you know the proper commands. Again, with Linux, you are limited only by your brain! If you know all the commands, then you weild great power.
I was trying to come up with a quick demo today of why the command line is so great (assuming you know what you are doing). The demo I used got me wonder what everyones favorite commands and CLI tools are.When unpacking archives I often end up with an extra directory. The demo I used for the power of the command line was cd into the inner directory then: mv * ..
I don't recall to have explicitly placed anything in my .bashrc file recently, but from yesterday I am able to see the command being displayed at the prompt before getting executed.
Yesterday we introduced your to Linux command line console or shell in our previous post. To read that post, click here.
Today we will continue from where we left off and expand a little into more advanced commands.
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