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installing sublime-text-2 on Ubuntu 10.04

This is the first version of the Sublime Text 2 packaging so there might be bugs.
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sudo -i; add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2; apt-get update; apt-get install sublime-text-2

xmonkey · 2011-03-16 23:57:41 4
restart network manager

when I turn on my wifi, I always have to put in this command in order to make my laptop notice the wifi.
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sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

StephSD3 · 2009-02-16 07:30:54 86
Start a new shell as root

Opens a new shell as root. Useful if you want to run a lot of commands as superuser without needing to sudo each of them. Show Sample Output
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```
Password:
sh-3.2#
```
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sudo su

Vulpine · 2009-02-18 14:03:27 14
analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark

This allows you to display the wireshark program running on remote pc to your local pc.
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sudo ssh -Y remoteuser@remotehost sudo wireshark

Code_Bleu · 2010-01-05 14:35:20 3
Adobe Updater Crashes on Mac OS X Fix

adobe updater keeps popping up. (normal update fails, probably due to insufficient rights) (src: http://aricsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/adobe-updater-crashes-on-mac-os-x-and.html)
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sudo /Applications/Utilities/Adobe\ Utilities.localized/Adobe\ Updater5/Adobe\ Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Updater

miccaman · 2009-06-25 08:07:47 18
apache , how to avoid bugs and start directly the server

This command is designed in order to avoid this error : /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload * Reloading web server config apache2 httpd not running, trying to start (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [fail] Show Sample Output
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```
* Starting web server apache2                                           [ OK ] 
```
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cd /etc/init.d && sudo ./apache2 start

nco · 2010-04-17 16:01:18 3
Disable Ubuntu Notification

Quick and dirty way to disable the Ubuntu notifications that can be quite annoying. It prevent the notify-osd to start so you need to logout Gnome or kill it by hand to take effect.
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sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd

lokutus25 · 2010-11-10 11:35:43 4
What is the sound of your memory ?
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sudo cat /dev/mem > /dev/dsp

eastwind · 2009-04-22 07:26:10 4
How To Install Microsoft Text Fonts In Ubuntu Linux
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sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

unixmonkey57489 · 2014-06-03 16:39:13 7
Save disk space by removing help and documentation files

Never read the documentation? No, then why have that ~ 20 MB sit there and take up space? This command preserves directory structure wile removing all of those unnecessary help and documentation files. Works on Ubuntu, Debian, and most related systems. Gives a lot of directory errors, I'll fix those later.
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for i in {a..z};do sudo rm /usr/share/doc/$i*/*;done

LinuxMan · 2010-07-23 01:52:25 6
system update
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get clean

opexxx · 2013-03-15 13:19:26 10
Run the previous command with sudo

I often forget to type sudo before a command that needs it. This is the quickest way to rerun the command prefixed by sudo.
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sudo !!

silbermm · 2009-02-25 00:52:28 10
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Remount a usb disk in Gnome without physically removing and reinserting

Remounts a usb disk /dev/sdb, without having to physically remove and reinsert. (Gnome desktop)

Outputs a sorted list of disk usage to a text file

Recursively searches current directory and outputs sorted list of each directory's disk usage to a text file.

Resize A Mounted EXT3 File System

Live extension of an ext3 file system on logical volume $v by 200GB without the need to unmount/remount. Requires that you have 1) a version of resize2fs that contains code merged from ext2online, and 2) kernel support for online resizing. (e.g. RHEL 5)

Get video information with ffmpeg

I used an flv in my example, but it'll work on any file ffmpeg supports. It says it wants an output file, but it tells what you want to know without one.

Start a new command in a new screen window

If you are already running screen then you often want to start a command in a fresh window. You use this alias by typing 's whatever' from your command line and 'whatever' starts running in a new window. Good with interactive commands like info, vim, and nethack.

Rename files in batch

Replace duplicate files by hardlinks

find unreadable file

send tweets to twitter (and get user details)

great for outputting tweets from cron jobs and batch scripts

List processes playing sound

When trying to play a sound you may sometimes get an error saying that your sound card is already used, but not by what process. This will list all processes playing sound, useful to kill processes that you no longer need but that keep using your sound card.

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