#Less proc cpuinfo how to#

Today’s article is one where we’re going to find the size of a directory. If you scroll down, you can sign up for the newsletter, vote for the article, and comment. Thanks for reading! If you want to help, or if the site has helped you, you can donate, register to help, write an article, or buy inexpensive hosting to start your own site. I know I’ve been known to use this myself, largely because I sometimes need to narrow down my history quite a bit, as I do a great deal in the terminal and my history is a hot mess. This one is handy if you need to know your command history by date. You have another article in a very long list of articles. Keep it as a handy tool, as you never know when you’re going to need it. It can be pretty handy so search the command history by date. You can also find what you entered when you remember the day but not the commands you entered. So, if you want to see what commands were run on a certain date, you can do that. If you’ve done it properly, it might look a little something like this: See? It works! It does show the command used to show these results, of course. I don’t really know, but it’s easy to figure out by just running the history command and deducing the format from those results. The format for me is YYYY-MM-DD, though I suppose it could be different for others who have an alternative date format set up. That’s an easy command that you need only run once: With your terminal open, we first have to tell Bash to store and show dates along with the history. Just press CTRL + ALT + T and your default terminal should open. Like oh so many articles, this one too requires an open terminal. It’s most useful when you remember when you made changes but you can’t remember the precise commands used when you made those changes.

#Less proc cpuinfo how to#

There really isn’t all that much to cover, but today we’ll learn how to search your command history by date. bash_history (proper name, I suppose) all that much. It’s helpful to be able to look at your command history, especially if you’ve forgotten what you did and you really need to undo it!ĭealing With Duplicates In Your Bash History This is on a per-user basis and considered relatively secure, or at least as secure as your user account is. Unless you’ve made some fairly drastic changes, Linux terminals keep a log of previously entered commands. We’ll be doing this through the terminal, of course. This isn’t hard, but might seem a little advanced for some of the newer users. Today’s article is going to show you how to search for the command history by date. Let’s use that file to make a symbolic link.

Now, pick a file… One that most users will have will be your Bash history, located at ~/.bash_history unless you’ve really done some heavy modifications. If you don’t know how to open the terminal, you can do so with your keyboard – just press CTRL + ALT + T and your default terminal should open. This article requires an open terminal, like many other articles on this site. It really shouldn’t be all that difficult to show you how to … Make A Symbolic Link: Like I said, this is going to be a short article.

It’s just a file that contains information about where another file is located. Darned if I know how to explain it! I hope that worked for you. Some folks think this sort of stuff is complicated, perhaps too complicated for a new Linux user, but I think it’s easy – so long as it’s properly explained. It is a file that contains information about where another file is located. It’s useful if you want to do things like put shortcuts on your desktop. You can make a symbolic link (again, a file) and move it around the system and it’ll still point at the original file. There’s a hard link as well, and that points to an inode. A symbolic link is a file that contains nothing more than a link to another file. So, what’s a symbolic link? Well, it’s a link to another file. It’s not hard, trust me on this… Or not… You can pretend it’s hard and impress your friends and family! It’s not terribly hard to make a symbolic link, though I suppose the syntax may seem quirky as compared to many other commands. This will be a very easy article, and one you may get some use from. In this article, we’re going to learn how to make a symbolic link.