Category: UNIX
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a “terminal multiplexer” is a software application …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_multiplexer Features: persistence multiple windows AKA screen splitting, screen tiling (my most wanted feature) – other applications have that as well (and for the same purpose): emacs, KDE konsole, … session sharing … Implementations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_multiplexer#Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux https://github.com/ruda/splitvt / https://slouken.libsdl.org/projects/splitvt/ …
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KDE Konsole is a terminal emulator (AKA console) for the K Desktop Environment — outdated — I now prefer qterminal over konsole
https://konsole.kde.org https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/konsole/commandreference.html#settings-menu — shortcuts, how to move the focus to another tab, … http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/konsole/ https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/konsole4/ I urgently need to replace mintty within my Cygwin environment by something more serious. I need to split the screen horizontally or vertically. And I cannot cope with GNU screen‘s shortcomings – esp. with its learning curve. Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_multiplexer…
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GNU wdiff — front end to GNU diff — word differences
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Wdiff Compares two files on a word per word basis, finding the word deleted or added from the first file to make the second. A word is defined as anything between whitespace. It works by creating two temporary files, one word per line, and the executes ‘diff’ on these fields. It collects the ‘diff’ output…
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getent – “get entries from administrative database”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getent https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/manpages/getent.1.en.html The getent command displays entries from databases supported by the Name Service Switch libraries, which are configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. If one or more key arguments are provided, then only the entries that match the supplied keys will be displayed. Otherwise, if no key is provided, all entries will be displayed (unless the database does not support enumeration). My DS713+ (Intel…
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updating my cygwin installation left me in trouble again — was: Microsoft Windows and the X Window System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel $ startxwin I usually prefer the rootless way. My applications nowadays “usually” run on a Linux (Debian, …) system or AIX. Update 2018-04-18: After some cygwin updating startxwin prefers to shut down immediately instead of offering me a menu (“xwin-xdg-menu … — an XDG Desktop Menu Specification menu“) in the system tray.…
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Microsoft Windows and the X Window System — new title: updating my cygwin installation left me in trouble again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel $ startxwin I usually prefer the rootless way. My applications nowadays “usually” run on a Linux (Debian, …) system or AIX. Update 2018-04-18: After some cygwin updating startxwin prefers to shut down immediately. I had no idea, that startxwin uses this start-up file: /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc . The last utility called there usually makes X wait…
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Tim Maher’s book: Minimal Perl for UNIX and Linux People
https://www.manning.com/books/minimal-perl https://www.amazon.de/dp/1932394508
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how to sort files by content
Same content, different names of 2 or more files –– how to identify the duplicates? Use check sum utilities (like chksum, md5sum, sha1sum, …) for this, and sort on their output!