Archive for the ‘terminal’ Category
How to Follow iPhone Developers on Twitter with Ruby
How to Follow iPhone Developers on Twitter with Ruby This requires using a Ruby on Rails script. I do not take credit for the script as it was created by David Clements. Currently there are approximately 1000 users listed on the spreadsheet. Understand this will cause to to start following 1000+ people very quickly with [...]
List of Top Twitter Apps
These are just the services / apps I currently use to help manage Twitter. I will update as needed. Services 1. Twimailer – I use this service for all my accounts. It send a nicely formatted email each time someone follows me. It includes how many tweets the user made, #followers, #unfollowers. It also shows [...]
Basic SSH and UNIX Commands
Navigation Commands ls this is the list command, it will list the content of the current directory ls -alh this lists all files and folders + permissions and sizes in a readable format cd this is the change directory command used in conjunection with a folder name like this: cd users/foo/ this would take to [...]
UNIX Command for Unpacking a Tar file to Different Directory
1. Open Terminal 2. Type this command: tar -xvzf /path/to/tar/file.tar.gz -C /path/to/dir/you/want/files/expanded the -C in essence changes the file path for the unpacked files.
UNIX Command for Unpacking a Tar file
1. Open Terminal 2. Type: tar -xvzf /path/to/file.tar.gz ( x= extract v=verbose z=(un)compress f=file ) This command will unpack the files to the root directory, replacing any old file that is within its packed structure.
