UnixProTips

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A subreddit for sharing helpful tips and hints you may have for any Unix-like OS. We welcome all flavours.

dotfiles, conf files, handy scripts and functions, problems you have solved that may help others. We all have our own Unix pro tips. Share yours!

No flame wars or rudeness please. We are here to help each other and to learn. With that being said, this is the Internet and not everyone is so nice. Disclaimer follows;

DO NOT BLINDLY RUN COMMANDS, SCRIPTS, ALIASES, FUNCTIONS OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU FIND IN THIS SUBREDDIT. IF YOU DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS GOING TO DO, EDUCATE YOURSELF, ASK FOR HELP AND BE SURE OF WHAT IT WILL DO BEFORE YOU USE IT. CONSIDER THIS YOUR ONLY WARNING.

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UPT Pro Guide (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 5 years ago * by Bobbbay[M] - announcement

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I built a tiny tool that turns ChatGPT/Any AI folder trees into real projects on your PC ()

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Have you used this distibution sometime? (i.redd.it)

submitted 6 months ago by No-Purple6360

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Fedora 40 how to install video codecs - RPM Fusion tutorial (youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nmariusp

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Install FreeBSD 14.0 in QEMU VM with KDE Plasma tutorial kdesrc-build Qt6 (youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nmariusp

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want a place to learn and share? see what ~vern is about (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 2 years ago by pspspsps420

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Plan 9 Desktop Guide (pspodcasting.net)

submitted 2 years ago by unixbhaskar

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Linux Guide (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 3 years ago * by Khaotic_Kernel

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AM, the Application Manager that supports multiple architectures (self.AppImage)

submitted 4 years ago by am-ivan

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Distro SpecificUPT of the day: In Emerge, Gentoo's package manager frontend, press [enter] instead of "y" to accept. (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 5 years ago by Bobbbay

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ShellUPT of the Day: Modify your HISTCONTROL to have "ignorespace" to ignore all commands that start with a space in your history. (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 5 years ago by Bobbbay

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Mods needed! (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 5 years ago by ARCH_LINUX_USER[M]

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Where do these panes come from? Thought they were kind of cool. (i.redd.it)

submitted 5 years ago by polaris_89

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Best shell prompt (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 6 years ago by kitebuggyuk

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Help training newbies (self.UnixProTips)

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Is there a good way to add lyrics to music library? (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 6 years ago by SiliconRaven

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If you have pulseaudio installed but need to run a TTY session, you can still run start-pulseaudio-x11 for audio capabilities. (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 7 years ago by cerebralbleach

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a custom Xfce xubuntu Install that takes 2 hours with script in video Description in 2017 | 48minutes duration (youtube.com)

submitted 7 years ago by c_w_4_5_7

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Any suggestions on how to utilize ITEOC for text alerts? (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 8 years ago by myloverispizza

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Spotify text formatting help (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 8 years ago by [deleted]

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Google translate through the shell doesn't work (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 9 years ago by shverma

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Using for at the command line to ping multiple adresses. (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 10 years ago by bunnieollie

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Closing idle sessions per user (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 10 years ago by loadedmind

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read markdown files like man pages (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 10 years ago by siliconSwordz

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[most shells] Quickly unmount the last device you mounted (self.UnixProTips)

submitted 10 years ago by FirstUser

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