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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Manipulating Files – Part 13

August 9, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI

This article explains the fundamentals of manipulating files from the shell. We explore cp, mv, rm and mkdir using Ubuntu 21.04.

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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Files and Permissions – Part 10

July 21, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI

In this article we’ll take you through the basics of files and permissions. We’ll use the ls command. Part of the Linux for Starters series.

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Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package

November 11, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.

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starship

starship – elegant cross-shell prompt at your fingertips

October 14, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

starship is an intelligent and non-intrusive prompt for anyone who spends time at a shell. It’s free and open source software. Read our verdict.

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Excellent Utilities: McFly – navigate through your shell history

July 26, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.

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