Linux Tips

Overview

The content of this page is summarized by my note about Linux. This will be updated frequently.

Terminal

Open terminal

Ctrl+Alt+T: open new terminal
Shift+Ctrl+T: open new tab

Screenshot

junqi@junqi-desktop:~$ spectacle

New file

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Desktop/Temp$ touch filename

New directory

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Desktop$ mkdir Temp

Open directory in User interface

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Desktop/Temp$ nautilus newdir/

Move file

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Desktop/Temp$ mv filename newdir

Rename file

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Desktop/Temp$ mv filename newfilename

Merge files

junqi@junqi-desktop:~$ cat *.bib > merged.bib

Delete files

junqi@junqi-desktop:~$ rm *.bib

Copy files

cp ../ex01/VV557+Assignment+\(official+2\).tex ./

Delete directory

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Desktop/Temp$ rm -r mvfile

Open PDF

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Desktop/Temp$ evince 1.pdf 

Jabref

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Downloads$ java -jar JabRef-4.3.1.jar

Tar

junqi@junqi-desktop:~/Desktop/VE572/Homework/h1/flight_data$ tar -xvf ../flight_data.tar 

sftp

sftp -o port=2572 motivatedstudent@ji.csproject.org
get flight_data.tar

bzip2

bzip2 -d *.csv.bz2