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If you want to have fun with ubuntu terminal this is for you

Entertainment

Watch Star Wars

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Chat with a bot

telnet the-funk.net 7000

Custom ascii text

banner

See how long your machine has been running

uptime

To see the arbitrary precision calculator (7^500 is interesting! That’s 7 to the 500th power)

bc

Must enter below code to use the next few

sudo apt-get install cowsaySee

your fortune

fortune

Use cowsay (replace “message” with your own text in single quotes)

cowsay ‘message’

Cowsay your Amarok lyrics

dcop amarok player lyrics | cowsay

Must enter below code to use the next few

sudo apt-get emacs21

To play ’snake’

emacs21

Once emacs21 opens, hit…

Esc>>”X”

Type in…

snake

To play ‘tetris’

emacs21

Once emacs21 opens, hit…

Esc>>”X”

Type in…

tetris

Useful

Show some computer stats

lspci

Access a dictionary through terminal (must have a working internet connection)
Note: Replace ‘word’ with whatever you’d like to search for (without quotes)

curl dict://dict.org/d:word

Check system temperature and battery charge

acpi -t

See a list of all running processes

ps aux

View the current time, date, and year

date

Show a simple calendar

cal

See what programs are running with the path names

ps -aux

See your current IP address

ifconfig -a

See what your system is doing at startup

dmesg

Show information about the computer users

finger -l

Show current Ubuntu version

cat /etc/issue

System Recovery

Backup xorg.conf

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup

Replace current xorg.conf with a previously made backup

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Delete auto xorg.conf backups

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.2007*

Use nano to edit xorg.conf (works in “terminal-only” mode)

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Keyboard Shortcuts

Terminal keyboard shortcut for paste

Ctrl>>Shift>>Alt>>”V”

Or…

Shift>>Insert

Advanced Users Only

Open up a file browser with all privileges

gksudo nautilus

Edit color options (advanced users only)

gedit .gtkrc-2.0

Give a .sh file executable priveledges

chmod +x

To clear all of the past commands you have run in the terminal history type:

history -c

If you use GNOME

Alt+F2 in your keyboard

and then type “free the fish”

SUPER COW POWERS

aptitude -h

Read the last line

apt-get moo

aptitude moo

aptitude -v moo

aptitude -v -v moo

aptitude -v -v -v moo

aptitude -v -v -v -v moo

aptitude -v -v -v -v -v moo

apt-get moo

Debian’s Top Secret List of planned Release Names

zcat /usr/share/doc/linux-image-`uname -r`/changelog.Debian.gz | egrep -e “Release”

zgrep “The.*Release” /usr/share/doc/dpkg/changelog.Debian.gz

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