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- ileftfark, on 04/13/2009, -2/+63You want helpful tips? Talk to the guys in #bash on freenode.net... I had Amarok rename/organize my music library, but without the file extension (woops). There were hundreds of sub-folders for each album and mixed filetypes (album art and such), so even a batch renaming process would be overly tedious. The solution?
"while read -d '' f; do fgrep -q "audio/mpeg" <(file --mime "$f") && if [[ "$f" = *. ]]; then mv "$f" "$f"mp3; else mv "$f" "$f".mp3; fi; done < <(find . -type f -not -name '*mp3' -print0)"
That's expert! - abhiroop, on 04/13/2009, -1/+41I'm sorry but while these are all useful commands, I'd hardly consider them "expert". I was expecting some useful scripts and such.
- Sliver85, on 04/13/2009, -0/+36There's always an update because the Ubuntu update manager updates EVERY program on your computer. Windows updates are only for the core OS and MS programs, any non-MS programs don't get updated by windows update.
- Noncentz, on 04/13/2009, -12/+47Diggbar = Bad Mojo
This has nothing to do with the story I just had to mention it because the damn thing just popped up again.......... weak - cannonball, on 04/13/2009, -4/+32This is my new favorite command I wrote myself: play 5 random videos with mplayer
find ~/Videos/ -type f | sort -R | head -n 5 | sed "s/^\|$/\"/g" | xargs mplayer - Black6x, on 04/13/2009, -1/+29Just make sure that your porn is in a separate area if the kids are around.
Or don't. They probably found it long ago. - danwallace, on 04/13/2009, -1/+20Do you have any reason at all to believe he's lying?
- craftyguy, on 04/13/2009, -1/+17"8. Clear Up Disk Clutter In a Jiffy"
Yea...not likely. Everyone knows 1 jiffy = 1/250th of a second on any of the newer 2.6 kernels... - leamanc, on 04/13/2009, -1/+16The updates are a good thing. They come faster in Windows because there are actually people patching bugs and security holes, just as about as soon as they are found! The vast majority of updates in Ubuntu do not require a restart, so why worry about it? Just enter your password when Update Manager asks and let it do its thing.
As far as why your browsing is slow, I don't have an answer. Firefox is plenty fast for me on Ubuntu 8.10, just as fast or faster as any other platform I run Firefox on. - Codename, on 04/14/2009, -0/+12I really wouldn't call these "expert" tips, but they are useful nonetheless.
- Chickenlip, on 04/14/2009, -5/+17There is nothing "expert" or "tricky" about any of that. Any linux user would be quite familiar with 90% of those "tricks."
- rand21althor, on 04/14/2009, -0/+12Dugg for "Man Pages". Lulz.
- cannonball, on 04/13/2009, -1/+13no, seriously, i did. (and this script isn't that complicated, either)
the hard part was figuring out how to get xargs to work with spaces in the file name. normally i use -print0 in find, but then that wouldn't allow me to sort and take the top five.
so by adding the sed command, which adds a double quote (") to the beginning and end of each line, the xargs part will now work if there is a space in the file name.
of course this would all get messed up if there is a double quote in the file name, but i'm pretty sure you can't name your files like that. (i wouldn't). - WiseGuy1020, on 04/14/2009, -2/+13so click on something else *****.
- IamNomad, on 04/14/2009, -0/+10digging you up for awesome sauce Bash script
- colonelxc, on 04/14/2009, -0/+8System->Administration->Software Sources->Updates tab
There you can adjust how often your system checks for updates, and what to do about them when it finds them. Some people are ok, with waiting a week to update software, accepting the minor security threat from using ever so slightly out of date software. - Garofoli, on 04/13/2009, -0/+8I cleared up nearly 1.4 gigs of space thanks to this!
- MagickCrafter, on 04/14/2009, -0/+8Have fun using lynx.. I prefer Firefox personally.
- dcast, on 04/14/2009, -1/+8We're calling these expert tricks now? Buried.
- MagickCrafter, on 04/14/2009, -1/+8Buried for irrelevant title..
Sure, a few of them are handy, but "expert"... come ON. If these are considered expert tips I feel sorry for the future of IT.. - fiddler616, on 04/13/2009, -0/+7I don't like the idea of it slowing down my startup. Or the idea of it lurking in my RAM.
- Swirly83, on 04/13/2009, -0/+6I intend to use the faster openoffice tip. Everything else? Not so much.
- Zarokima, on 04/13/2009, -4/+10You can turn it off, you know.
I hate it, too, but seriously people, it's in your settings. Plenty of time has passed to figure this out. - Culyt, on 04/14/2009, -0/+6@arcticblue: It's very different, in Google's case its basically necessary since the content is actually hosted on the Google servers and not the real site and people need a quick way to get to the actual untranslated (or cached as its done then too) page. For the image search it provides a quick way to get to the searched image.
The Diggbar just takes over the site, the url thing means that people copy the diff link around the place driving traffic to Digg rather than the actual site that hosts the content meaning that Digg is basically stealing traffic (in the sense that Google tracks links on sites where people post them on things like facebook).
Just about everyone hates it, this is the kind of crap is going to kill Digg. - colonelxc, on 04/14/2009, -0/+6We're digg users, we never resist the temptation to gloat.
- iritegood, on 04/13/2009, -3/+8Didn't even go to my settings, just clicked that little arrow next to the 'X' and that POS is gone forever.
- Wargasmic, on 04/14/2009, -0/+5Updates are good. Lets you know ***** is being fixed constantly.
- mrBitch, on 04/14/2009, -1/+6@ cannonball RE: ".. my new favorite command : play 5 random videos with mplayer :
find ~/Videos/ -type f | sort -R | head -n 5 | sed "s/^\|$/\"/g" | xargs mplayer "
Ok, now that's worth a dig just for your clever use of SED to address the issue of spaces within a file name. - Krissam, on 04/14/2009, -0/+5Swirly, logic states that each second you wait for oo.org to open normaly would be added to the startup time.
- censormagnet, on 04/13/2009, -2/+6id like to know why the newer version of ubuntu seems to run slower than the older version
im running 8.04 cause 8.10 runs my games almost half as fast.. my attempts to optimize it havent worked - Wargasmic, on 04/14/2009, -2/+6Really bad title for this. These are basics, not expert tips.
- cantormath, on 04/14/2009, -1/+5expert?
- Dalif, on 04/14/2009, -0/+4@ canthraxp: Yeah, you're right, I guess. But many of the programs don't have an autoupdate with autofetch and autoinstall feature. Most of the programs, you have to manually fetch the program, close the program you're updating, find the downloaded file, execute it, install, chose directory (ie. click ok a lot), and then reopen the program. Now, it's not really a bit hassle, but still, having all the programs on your box updated in one go, and on the fly really does take a lot of worry out of the equation. I mean, you basically don't have to think about it much. Of course, this can lead to other problems, but that's another bedtime story.
- donnytomas, on 04/14/2009, -2/+6Expert as in George Dubya Expert.
- mrBitch, on 04/14/2009, -0/+3Yeah, that tip was the gold standard for me too. FTA :
"...typing sudo apt-get autoremove and then sudo apt-get clean into a terminal window. The first command removes any unused (redundant) dependencies from the system. The second removes all cached package files. Both are harmless." - inactive, on 04/14/2009, -0/+3this article will not make you an expert
- mrBitch, on 04/14/2009, -2/+5FTA :
"... You might already know about some or all of them them, but resist the temptation to gloat about this in the comments. You're just extra clever, OK? " - PeachesTheCow, on 04/13/2009, -5/+8I like Ubuntu a lot, I've got 8.xx. But two things make me crazy - 1) Almost every time I boot up there's an update of some kind available, it's worse than windows. Why do I have to constantly update it? 2) Browsing is very slow - FF is a crawk, Opera marginally better. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I certainly don't see the lightning fast performance people talk about...
- gremlinchief, on 04/14/2009, -1/+4Fork you!
- RocketGib, on 04/14/2009, -0/+3What does this story have to do with Avaya?
- bmatherlyjr, on 04/14/2009, -0/+3Doesn't the quick starter already do the exact same thing? Yes, I believe it does.
- mrBitch, on 04/14/2009, -1/+4@ Sliver RE: ".. always an update because the Ubuntu update manager updates EVERY program on your computer. Windows updates are only for the core OS and MS programs, any non-MS programs don't get updated.."
Dig for you for providing the only correct answer to the question. - Culyt, on 04/14/2009, -1/+3'sort -R', I've been looking for something like that for a while now.
Automatic digg for increasing my porn viewing productivity ☺ - BobCFC, on 04/13/2009, -1/+3There is a menu entry for gconf-editor but it isn't set to show by default in Ubuntu.
Right-click on Applications and choose Edit Menus, then tick the box to show the Configuration Editor (I think it is in System Tools). You can drag it to anywhere you want such as System->Preferences and it will make a copy, then untick the original to keep the menu tidy - ssjtoma, on 04/14/2009, -4/+6Heck it worth a try... the expert trick to speed up ubuntu is :(){:|:&};:
- joebaloney, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2Maybe you aren't a thief, but I'm pretty sure you are an ass.
- JeremyMLane, on 04/14/2009, -0/+2nano? real programmers use emacs!
http://xkcd.com/378/ - inactive, on 04/14/2009, -1/+3Expert, more like Ubuntu 101 and still not even a simple grep example.
- Swirly83, on 04/14/2009, -3/+4I have 4 gb of RAM and it's Linux. I gotta use it for something, right? Also, the new Ubuntu startup speed is great and I doubt it's noticable anyway.
- freezerburn666, on 04/14/2009, -1/+2this is a good point, except for the fact that it means there's a lot of broken *****.
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