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Program of the week xwininfo – window information utility for X

17th June 12 | Linux

Run it via the command line and click on a window you’d like more information about, and view the output. For more inforamtion see ‘man xwininfo’ Example output: osaka@OsakaPad ~ $ xwininfo xwininfo: Please select the window about which you would like information by clicking the mouse in that window. xwininfo: Window id: 0x201484c “Terminal” [...]

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rm exclude

21st January 11 | Linux

With help from Google and Linux forum, found a cool command that will delete everything else but not the folder or file name in the specified field behold the command of destiny! rm -r `ls | grep -v ‘snapshots’` Make sure that around the piped ls command you have tilda and a single quote around [...]

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Generate 1000 random words using UNIX

8th October 10 | Linux

I need 1000 random words in non-alphabetical order, don’t ask why… I just do.  So after looking though the ‘bin‘ folder for a program that might generate these words and found nothing, I decided to head to the internet.  This is where I found out about the ‘words‘ file which is located in ‘/usr/dict/words‘ this [...]

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