Tuesday, April 16, 2013

How to Do Simple Stuff From Command Line

Ubuntu Linux


to view images from the command line, try eog <filename>

to view pdf's from the command line, try evince <filename>

to scroll in a terminal window from the keyboard: [Shift] + PgUp/PgDn



Windows 


to open an new terminal from the command line, try 'start' (with no quotes)

to open a file explorer window (at the current location) from the command line, try 'start .' (that's start-space-period, no quotes)



Know any other simple command line tricks? Let me know!

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