Some people might encounter the experience that they can't view a pdf file they want from a terminal when no GUI is available. This is when pdftotext comes in handy. This utility allows you to export a pdf file to a plain text format and view from any text editor. It also allows you to export only certain parts of the pdf file. [ Read More ]

I have compiled a list of useful linux commands for day to day operation.

make a pdf of a manual page



Run a low priority command



Go to previous directory



Go to dir, execute command and return to current dir



Make compressed archive of dir/



Extract archive (use gzip instead of bzip2 for tar.gz files)



Display a calendar for a particular month year



What date is it this friday.



What day does xmas fall on, this year



Convert seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 UTC) to date



Email reminder



Show name and version of distribution



Show all partitions registered on the system



Download url at 1AM to current dir



You can find more commands from Linux Commands - A Practical Reference.

Or more on Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets for Linux Commands [ Read More ]

When you are viewing text files using more/less command, sometimes you would like to edit that particular file directly using vi without going back to shell and fire up another command. You can do that easily by doing the following. [ Read More ]

IEs4Linux is the simple way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on any Linux which runs Wine. All you need is one script to setup different versions of IE on your machine. It’s free and open source and will be very useful for designers and web developers to test their applications in the legacy browsers. [ Read More ]