Debian tips
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See the LDP BootPrompt-HOWTO for detailed information on the boot prompt.
All content on one page (useful for printing, presentation mode etc.)
- Booting the system
- Recording activities
- Copy and archive a whole subdirectory
- Differential backup and data synchronization
- System freeze recovery
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Nifty little commands to remember
- Pager
- Free memory
- Set time (BIOS)
- Set time (NTP)
- How to control console features such as the screensaver
- Search administrative database
- Disable sound (beep)
- Error messages on the console screen
- Set console to the correct type
- Get the console back to a sane state
- Convert a text file from DOS to Unix style
- Convert a text file with recode
- Regular-expression substitution
- Edit a file in place using a script
- Extract differences and merge updates for source files
- Convert a large file into small files
- Extract data from text file table
- Script snippets for piping commands
- Script snippets for looping over each file
- Perl short script madness
- Get text or a mailing list archive from a web page
- Pretty print a web page
- Pretty print a manual page
- Merge two PostScript or PDF files
- Time a command
- nice command
- Schedule activity (cron, at)
- Console switching with screen
- Network testing basics
- Flush mail from local spool
- Remove frozen mail from local spool
- Redeliver mbox contents
- Clear file contents
- Dummy files
- chroot
- How to check hard links
- mount hard disk image file
- Samba
- Utilities for foreign filesystems
- Typical mistakes to be noted

