Adventure: tput

Another new Adventure! Tired of looking at the same old text? Learn how to add color and text effects to your scripts with tput.

Adventure: Less Typing

Another new Adventure! Fingers getting tired? Making more mistakes than you should? You should learn to do more with Less Typing!

Adventure: Terminal Multiplexers

I have just posted another Adventure! This one explores terminal multiplexers; programs that allow your terminal to perform clever tricks. Enjoy!

Adventures

I have just posted the first unit of a new series on LinuxCommand.org called Adventures. These are tutorials that supplement my book, The Linux Command Line.

The first tutorial in the Adventures series is Midnight Commander. Midnight Commander is a text-based directory browser and file manager. A very powerful and useful program.

Look for more Adventures in the coming weeks. Enjoy!

program_list

I've just added another script to the Resources page. This one, called program_list, creates an annotated listing of the executable files (i.e. programs) in a specified directory, or if no directory is specified, /usr/bin.

The listing consists of the program name, a brief description of the program (taken from its man page) and the name of the package that installed the program.  The listing may be produced in 3 different formats: plain text (the default), TSV (tab-separated values), or Markdown.

This script is useful to new users who wish to learn what all the stuff in /usr/bin (or /bin, or /sbin, or /usr/sbin, etc.) does.

Enjoy!

A Couple More Scripts

I have just posted 2 new bash scripts on the Resources page for your edification and enjoyment. They are:

my_cloud - A script to store and manage files on a remote server (a kind of stone-age Dropbox).

photo2mail - A script that re-sizes images. Used to make image files suitable for use as email attachments.

In addition, I have updated new_script to support a more modern coding standard.

Enjoy!