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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Using the “date” command and it’s % options

April 17, 2009 – 12:03 am

Well, you can’t really get a date with this command but it is a very useful command to know for administrative tasks as well as for automatic documentation through scripting. However, the date command’s options often baffles a lot of people (well, in my administering SuSE Linux class anyway) especially when they read about the [...]

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Short and quick tutorial for the command “tar”

April 16, 2009 – 3:00 am

We have recently posted about tarball and the use of tar coupled with compression programs to create it.  Here, we will go through three (3) short tutorial on using tar. To compress a list of files To compress (the c in the options) a list of files into a specific file (the f in the [...]

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What are .Z, .gz and .bz2 files?

April 15, 2009 – 12:04 am

As part of a tarball distribution and also other compressed files, you will come across files with the .Z, .gz and .bz2 extensions.  These are basically files that have been compressed using different applications, much like the .zip files predominantly found in the Windows environment.

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What is a tarball?

April 13, 2009 – 7:22 pm

OpenSuSE and SuSE uses the Redhat Package Manager (rpm) for the distribution of software applications.  However, from time to time, we will also be asked to download the tarball as oppose to the rpm package.  So what is this tarball?

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Customizing Gnome Terminal fonts and colors

April 9, 2009 – 7:30 pm

By default, most SuSE and OpenSuse distribution selects Gnome as the window manager, KDE being the other option.  Under Gnome, the terminal application is called the Gnome Terminal which has a better look and feel than the plain Terminal application (which is also available).  The default size of the terminal may be too small for [...]

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