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Some distributions of Linux use a different default screen font, resulting in strange fonts when using MC in PuTTY. The following fixes this problem. Backup /etc/sysconfig/i18n – then clear the contents of the existing file and add the following lines: LANG=”en_GB.iso885915″ SUPPORTED=”en_GB.iso885915:en_GB:en:en_US.iso885915:en_US:en” SYSFONT=”lat0-sun16″ SYSFONTACM=”iso15″ Log out and back in again, and MC will now display […]

Change Unix file permissions recursively: To list: Note: use “iname” for a case insensitive operation find . -name “*.pls” -exec ls -ls {} \; To Change find . -name “*.pls” -exec chmod 750 {} \; (execute the chmod command for every file [named *.pls] found by find.) find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} […]

Authenticated FTP with MC /#ftp:[!][user[:pass]@]machine[:port][remote-dir] cd /#user:pass@site

vi search and replace: (in command mode) The following strings illustrate how to perform a search and replace in the Unix vi editor. :g/old_text/s//new_text/g Replace EOL (end of line) :g/$/s//new_string/g where $ is EOL and \t = a tab The start of line can be equally easily searched and replaced – using the carat ^ […]

List users on Linux cat /etc/passwd | cut -d”:” -f1