I was going to talk about screen this week. One of the most useful things I think it can do is split a console up into two viewable/able editable areas you can do this with the ctrl-S option!
Its great for watching a log whilst you do other things on the computer. > From: Stuart Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:47:52 +1100 (EST) > To: DE LUCA Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Weekly celebration of a Unix utility > >> I was wondering if people would like to talk about >> some of the things that >> you might be able to do with some simple utilities >> that are included with >> most Linux distros. > > Quite often the Linux versions of Unix standard > programs come from the GNU project and are completely > packed with new and useful features. Two of my > favourites: > > 1) -h option (human readable) in df and du commands > 2) less pager F option to go into "tail -f" mode of > a logfile you are looking at; which can then be > changed back to regular less with an interrupt key > > Since so many Linux programs are so configurable and > options-packed it's well worth the trouble of > reading all about your favourites. > > Stuart. > > http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals > New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
