The find command is a powerful and versatile tool that can do much more than search for files. There are many ‘tests’ that can be added to make the search as specific as needed. Complex searches can then be combined with…

Like seeing rainbows all over the place? Does it make you especially happy to have a colorful terminal? Yeah, me too. There’s a little Ruby program called lolcat and it will help you out (in the happiness department). Steps to a…

For a long time my favorite Terminal program has been Guake. It is “a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment.” It is always available and hidden when not in use. Simply press a button and it pops out from top…

There is a wonderful command on UNIX systems to return the width of the current terminal. Enter  tput cols and see for yourself! Tput can actually provide a lot of different info by querying the terminfo database. Really all I’ve needed though is…

In my house we watch a lot of instant Netflix. So, as you can imagine, it was pretty sad finding out it wouldn’t work when I changed my laptop to Ubuntu Linux. The Netflix technical blog has talked about their…