On 2/5/07, -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu> wrote:
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>
> I like using the <tab>-<tab> trick in bash to find different commands.
> For instance if you want to see all the commands that start with ps, just
> type ps<tab><tab>.  That's 'ps' and hit the tab key twice.
>
> Of course lots of X commands start with 'x', so x<tab><tab>.  Or kde
> commands start with 'k', k<tab><tab>.  You get the idea...



That is very nice, but only works for commands in your PATH.


If you use tcsh (does anyone? i did for years), you can use ctrl-d to do
> the same thing.
>
> ray
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> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Joe Fruchey wrote:
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> > But I lost all my fancy gui-based Gnome config utils. It's okay,
> > though, because I know those are all just frontends for command line
> > utils. But how do I learn them?! In Gnome, if I wanted to change
> > something, I'd go to the system menu and look. But without a visual
> > reference, how would I know that xrandr changes the resolution?
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