Published on 26 Feb 2004
This feature has not been implemented in gentoolkit-0.2 yet but the etcat
variant which is presented below does still work. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
Published on 26 Feb 2004
The size of an installed package can be retrieved by equery size STRING
. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
Published on 23 Feb 2004
The commands presented below attempt to find an installed package which is responsible for merging the desired file. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
Published on 21 Sep 2003
The import
program offers you a nice and quick way to take screenshots from your X server and saving it in a variety of formats. It belongs to the ImageMagick package which contains tools to create edit and convert images.
Published on 21 Sep 2003
The strings
command extracts ASCII strings from files, even binaries.
Published on 21 Sep 2003
Although rsync
is also able to connect to a daemon to synchronize with remote locations, it isn’t always possible to install or customize a remote rsync
server, which makes tunnelling through SSH the only alternative. This also ensures privacy and data integrity.
Published on 21 Sep 2003
Please refer to Handling Filenames with Spaces
Published on 21 Sep 2003
The Linux process scheduler allows custom priorities to be attached to a process to provide some metric to decide whether a process deserves more processor time than others.
Published on 21 Sep 2003
You can modify the title of an XTerm window by printing a certain escape sequence.
Published on 21 Sep 2003
XFree resources allow presetting preferences of most clients in ~/.Xdefaults
and ~/.Xresources
. These files are merged into the resources database by running xrdb -merge ~/.Xresource
. Resources that are recognized by a client are usually documented in the accompanying man page.