command line

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• Adding a user to the sudoers list in Ubuntu

  Stop using root for administrative tasks. Here is how to add a new user to the sudoers list in Ubuntu.

• A more powerful version of grep

  The utility command grep has a more powerful brother that let us use POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.

• Display disk usage with the du command

  How to display the total of the current directory or a particular directory, as well as listing subtotals (subdirectories).

• Hide the desktop icons on Mac OS X

  A two step way using the defaults command to hide the icons from the desktop in Mac OS X.

• Display line numbers using the cat command

  A simple feature you one day may be glad you know.

• Finding the latest version of an npm package

  Using the view registry info command to show the latest version available of a package in the node package manager.

• Create and extract tar archives compressed with gzip

  For some reason I always find it hard to remember how to create and extract gzipped TAR archives, but here is how to do it.