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For some reason the 2&>1 does not work for me, but the shorter stdout/stderr redirection >& works perfectly (Ubuntu 10.04).
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Used this after cloning a disk with dd to make the newly written partitions show up in /dev/
Sometimes I need to move several blank lines my terminal, I usually use this command, does anybody know a better one?
Thanks
This is a simple command, but useful when you don't remember what episode need to see :D
This is super fast and an easy way to test your terminal for 256 color support. Unlike alot of info about changing colors in the terminal, this uses the ncurses termcap/terminfo database to determine the escape codes used to generate the colors for a specific TERM. That means you can switch your terminal and then run this to check the real output.
tset xterm-256color
at any rate that is some super lean code!
Here it is in function form to stick in your .bash_profile
aa_256 ()
{
( x=`tput op` y=`printf %$((${COLUMNS}-6))s`;
for i in {0..256};
do
o=00$i;
echo -e ${o:${#o}-3:3} `tput setaf $i;tput setab $i`${y// /=}$x;
done )
}
From my bash_profile: http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html
Instead of using force un-mounting, it's better to find the processes that currently use the relevant folder.
Taken from:
http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/findprocesses.htm
Shows the UUID of the given partition (here /dev/sda7). Doesn't need to be root.
~ is the ssh control character. If you type it after a newline, you can example force close the ssh session.
, ~, then .
If you want more info, type ~? when you are connecting using ssh.
Very useful to kill of any hanging ssh sessions when nothing else works.