16 Linux Tips in 10 Minutes

16 Linux Tips in 10 Minutes
Let's go over as many linux tips as we can as fast as we can. These are tips you all should know, but there will probably be a couple new ones in here. I also add bonus tips throughout. Timestamps below
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00:00 Introduction
00:50 Killing Processes
01:26 htop
02:04 system-monitor
02:43 bind hotkeys
03:28 use workplaces
04:05 SSH Usage
05:27 Remote Access Programs
06:08 Uptime Command
06:34 Check Your Linux Version
07:01 Neofetch
07:17 TTY Black Screen
08:25 cmatrix
09:07 Auto-Mount Drives
10:39 UUID - BLKID
10:53 List Drives
11:24 sudo !!
12:02 Aliases
13:20 Conclusion

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[LiQuidLego]

ctrl + a - move cursor to beginning of line in terminal
ctrl + e - move cursor to end of line in terminal

[pipeliner]

Just switched to Linux and want to say that your channel helps a lot!

[AnujRaool]

'ctrl + r' to search previously entered commands. Very helpful when command has huge no of [options] associated with it..

[christianlempa]

Pipe, Pipe, Pipe! Most powerful feature on Linux, shouldn't have missed that one 😋

[dirksesterhenn]

When you press F5 in htop you get a process tree, too.

[GGShinobi]

Good tips for beginners!
Maybe add:
- locate / find to search for files
- rsync for nice backups / more comfortable way to copy files
- du -m | sort -n or baobab to see what takes up how much space on the disk (when you need to clean up)
- grep to search inside of files
- ip r to find out IP of the router
- ping to see if machine on the network / internet is reachable
- traceroute maybe?
- xprop to find out more about an opened window
- lsof maybe in order to see which processes access a file?
- chown / chmod maybe?
- history
- apropos / man
- diff maybe
- loginctl in case the session seems frozen?
- watch
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I'm sure there are a lot more and a lot better examples but they don't come to my mind right now :)

[pavlospilakoutas]

Didnt know about the sudo !!
Used the up arrow went at the beginning and typed sudo.
Thx 👍

[LowTechLinux]

Chris previous video "I hate vlc"
Chris next video "I'm gonna show you, how to murder vlc, aka kill."

Followed by "F STAB"!!
LMAO 😂🤣

[suyogmule]

FYI htop also shows processes in tree form
Its "htop -t"
You can make alias htop to run htop -t
And htop tree shows full path of process instead of just name so its pretty useful when I'm using python virtial environments. I knw exactly which python process is to quit.

[splitjonas]

Random useful tip that I like:
When I compile stuff from github that is not available in my repos, then I use "sudo checkinstall --install=no" first instead of "sudo make install" to be able to easily remove the github stuff through my favourite package manager. (Usefull for when sudo make uninstall does not work properly)

[NullByte_-mmdn]

>dd and binwalk - for working with unknown binary file formats
>ffmpeg - anything about video/audio encoding/decoding
>imagemagick - image editing
>mathomatic - calculator
>tmux - multitasking
>strace and ltrace - debugging
>watch - monitoring things (like output of sensors or nvidia-smi)
>lsusb, lspci, lsmod and dmesg - figuring out hardware/driver issues

[-nepherim]

Learned a few thing there, thanks, including some surprisingly basic things, like shortcut for system monitor instead of htop, sudo !!, and even combination of lsblk and then blkid! In particular the ctrl-alt F7 to get back to normal window after mucking in tty.

[mattrothove]

I love these top videos. I switched to Linux fully around 6-7 months ago and I challenge myself to learn something new at least a few times a week. Alias’ for directories is an awesome idea. Idk why I never thought of that lol

[PoeLemic]

Gosh, I loved this video. I sure wish you'd make more videos like this. Now, this one really helps me. I see how to do the aliases which I would love to do. Then, I had never seen the CNTRL + ALT + F1 and then F7. In the Linux class that I took at a community college, useful stuff like this wasn't covered. Also, how you showed the Automounting helped. I watched your video, but it was quite a while ago. I hope there is an app to help you quickly handle the automounting syntax, but (yes) I should learn it too. However, thanks for this video. It was really, really, really helpful.

[kurshtivk]

make a part two


and


ctrl + d to exit the terminal.

[mtruo]

I love your 14 minute video on Linux tips under 10 minutes.

[AdamJones]

I did not know about !! thats gonna save me time from all the sily spelling mistakes. Also I use bashtop rather than htop as its a slightly more user friendly terminal monitoring tool. Thanks again for the great tips

[veorEL]

An empty SPACE in front of a command makes it skip the BASH history.
Perfect to do some housekeeping of your bash history 'as you type'.
Because my absolute favourite is CTRL + R to turn the BASH history into an autocomplete interactive session.

[Eduardo-fkft]

I like the history command, also when i search for something i ran and can't really remember, i just pipe it through grep, very powerful and simple.

[Jinith_Jayan]

Please make more of these videos Chris.. Love your channel :)