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Tip #216   Create a Terminal Calculator

Put the following in your .bashrc file

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Tip #215   Calendar with today colored [handle single digit dates]

If your version of grep supports coloring matches, you can use the following to give a calendar with the current date colored:

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Tip #213   Howto get DVDs playing on Ubuntu Gutsy

Get DVDs playing on Ubuntu Gutsy by installing libdvdcss2.

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Tip #210   Calendar with current date

Add the following sed commands to cal to get a calendar with the current date marked:

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Tip #209   Directory Tree

The following alias will print the directory structure from the current directory in tree format.

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Tip #208   Pipe files to an archive

If you want to select specifically the files to add to an archive you can pipe the output from find (or any command that gives a list of files) to cpio:

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Tip #207   Run commands on logout

If a file named $HOME/.logout (a file named .logout in your home directory) exists, and the following trap statement is in your .profile, .logout is executed when you logout.

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