Blog Posts on linux terminal commands

How to display Bible verses fortune cookie by ErickJohnCuevas on Sep 7, 2011It’s been a while since my last post to my site. For a start, we display a fortune cookie about daily Bible verses. Here is how we do that. First lets install the verse package, luckily the verse package is available in the repository. $sudo ap...

Finch a terminal base chat client by ErickJohnCuevas on Apr 1, 2011If you’re Pidgin user then you don’t need to configure Finch when running from the terminal, Finch will automatically go to your “.purple” directory. Finch is like Pidgin but it runs in your terminal. Before installing Finch,...

How to twit from command line by ErickJohnCuevas on Mar 31, 2011Why would I twit from a command line if their are twitter UI’s available? A simple answer is, you dont have to! Lets get on: Download Tweepy from GitHub and read the Install file instruction. Content of Install file: ————...

Linux Easter Eggs by ErickJohnCuevas on Feb 27, 2011Easter eggs is an intentional hidden messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in a software program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other st...

Useful Linux Terminal Commands by ErickJohnCuevas on Jan 19, 2011If you are a lotto fun, this command will generate 6 numbers. echo $(shuf -n 6 -i 1-49 | sort -n) This command will uncompress file while downloading. wget http://URL/FILE.tar.gz -O - | tar xfz - To locate the installation directories of a...

Useful Linux Terminal Commands by ErickJohnCuevas on Jan 19, 2011If you are a lotto fun, this command will generate 6 numbers. echo $(shuf -n 6 -i 1-49 | sort -n) This command will uncompress file while downloading. wget http://URL/FILE.tar.gz -O - | tar xfz - To locate the installation directories of a...