Entries tagged personal computing
Add a new website to a server running nginx, LetsEncrypt HTTPS and Certbot
Backup /etc/letsencrypt directory with rsync from remote server to local machine
Prepend multiple files with a pattern with the command line
Switch default browser from the command line
View content of a tar.gz archive without extracting
Compress multiple directories (folders) with gzip
My .muttrc file
Start using Mutt: a setup with GPG, mbsync, msmtp and notmuch
Change the email address git uses
Set up your own webserver (& webpage) with nginx, LetsEncrypt and Certbot
Remove “Save in password manager” option in GPG pinentry
Uncomment a line with sed (i.e. delete #)
Change the time zone used by date on GNU/Linux
Set up a VPS with Trisquel GNU/Linux NetInstall
[Solved] Permission denied (publickey,password) with correct password
Change root password on GNU/Linux
Undelete a message in Mutt
Show size of a file or a directory from the command line
Show the keyID of subkeys
Show or export GPG public key
Error “E212: Can’t open file for writing” in Vim
Show the key ID of key used to encrypt
Create and store email aliases for Mutt
Append multiple lines at the end of a file with cat
Add multiple lines to a new file with cat
Set up your own instance of Jitsi
Send an email from the command line with Mutt
Justify text in Vim
Set Mutt to store deleted messages in the trash folder
Compute your bike itinerary locally with bbbike
Check whether a package is installed on GNU/Linux
Check whether a package is availabile in the repository of a GNU/Linux’s distribution
Undo the last local commit
Remove a file from the last commit
Pass the output of the last command as an argument to the next
Mutt: store passwords encrypted with GPG
Exclude files and directories when listing with ls
Find out the license of a programme locally
List directories (folders) with ls
Show lines below and/or above a match with grep
My current Vim mnemonic sheet
Shortcuts to edit on the command line
Create a permanent alias for a command
Edit and reexecute a command from the shell history
Open all grepped files in vim
Count the number of files grepped with wc
Find files created or modified in the last days
Move (copy) files or folders printed by find
Count the number of files in a folder with wc
Display the amount of disk space available
Encrypt and decrypt a directory with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase with gpgtar
Edit the message of the last commit
Copy a command from the shell history to a file
Copy a command from the shell history to the clipboard
Merge pdf files freely without installing another programme
Convert a pdf to a text file from the command line
Check the version a GNU/Linux distribution from the command line
Create, edit and delete git alias
Commands and shortcuts I use in the shell (the terminal)
You don’t need a new app for your Zettelkasten
Show local time for a given time and date of a different time zone
Find out what takes up disk space on your drive
Combine (squash) git commits together
Generate a table of contents on a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Increase the font size of a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Add today’s date automatically when converting a Markdown file to pdf with Pandoc
Show word count with Pandoc and a lua script
Show paragraph count on pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Rename multiple files from the command line
Copy, move or delete recently modified or downloaded files
Find files or directories from the command-line with find
You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files: use the programme grep
Replace all occurences of a word in one or many files from the command line with sed
Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal)
Compare files, “accept/reject” (like in Word) and merge changes, with diff and patch
.vimrc file of a writer (not a programmer)
Show word count of a text file from the command line with wc or pandoc & lua
A vim script to mark folds on Markdown headers by default
Change vim color scheme
A guide to simple and stupid usage of computers for writers (anyone who writes really)
Start using vim
Start using (the programme) “less” to display files
Start using Markdown
Start using git to keep track of file versioning
Start using Pandoc
Set Vim as the default text editor for Mutt
A mutt configuration file (muttrc) for Proton mail (with bridge)
Show word count in vim
Start using the command-line interface (cli)
Justify or right-align text in Markdown using HTML
Remove file id extension from file name when downloading with youtube-dl
Download mp3 audio track only (no video) from YouTube with youtube-dl
Copy the content of a file to the clipboard from the command line
Change the expiration date (time) of a gpg subkey
Download mp3 files from a webpage with wget
Show the time of other time zones from the command line
Restore your data from backup with the programme Back in Time
Back up your computer (/home) on an external drive with the programme Back in Time
Switch from nano to vim as default editor in the shell
Make Pandoc file conversion faster
Git asks for password each time I “git push”. Solution: caching credentials with git
Convert an HTML webpage into an EPUB file with Pandoc
Follow a YouTube channel with RSS (without a Google/YouTube account)
A roadmap to reclaiming my attention and time
Follow websites or blogs you like with a RSS reader
Add a forgotten file to the last commit
Edit the message of the last commit
Add newly made modifications to the last commit
Backup /etc/letsencrypt directory with rsync from remote server to local machine
Prepend multiple files with a pattern with the command line
Switch default browser from the command line
View content of a tar.gz archive without extracting
Compress multiple directories (folders) with gzip
My .muttrc file
Start using Mutt: a setup with GPG, mbsync, msmtp and notmuch
Change the email address git uses
Set up your own webserver (& webpage) with nginx, LetsEncrypt and Certbot
Remove “Save in password manager” option in GPG pinentry
Uncomment a line with sed (i.e. delete #)
Change the time zone used by date on GNU/Linux
Set up a VPS with Trisquel GNU/Linux NetInstall
[Solved] Permission denied (publickey,password) with correct password
Change root password on GNU/Linux
Undelete a message in Mutt
Show size of a file or a directory from the command line
Show the keyID of subkeys
Show or export GPG public key
Error “E212: Can’t open file for writing” in Vim
Show the key ID of key used to encrypt
Create and store email aliases for Mutt
Append multiple lines at the end of a file with cat
Add multiple lines to a new file with cat
Set up your own instance of Jitsi
Send an email from the command line with Mutt
Justify text in Vim
Set Mutt to store deleted messages in the trash folder
Compute your bike itinerary locally with bbbike
Check whether a package is installed on GNU/Linux
Check whether a package is availabile in the repository of a GNU/Linux’s distribution
Undo the last local commit
Remove a file from the last commit
Pass the output of the last command as an argument to the next
Mutt: store passwords encrypted with GPG
Exclude files and directories when listing with ls
Find out the license of a programme locally
List directories (folders) with ls
Show lines below and/or above a match with grep
My current Vim mnemonic sheet
Shortcuts to edit on the command line
Create a permanent alias for a command
Edit and reexecute a command from the shell history
Open all grepped files in vim
Count the number of files grepped with wc
Find files created or modified in the last days
Move (copy) files or folders printed by find
Count the number of files in a folder with wc
Display the amount of disk space available
Encrypt and decrypt a directory with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase with gpgtar
Edit the message of the last commit
Copy a command from the shell history to a file
Copy a command from the shell history to the clipboard
Merge pdf files freely without installing another programme
Convert a pdf to a text file from the command line
Check the version a GNU/Linux distribution from the command line
Create, edit and delete git alias
Commands and shortcuts I use in the shell (the terminal)
You don’t need a new app for your Zettelkasten
Show local time for a given time and date of a different time zone
Find out what takes up disk space on your drive
Combine (squash) git commits together
Generate a table of contents on a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Increase the font size of a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Add today’s date automatically when converting a Markdown file to pdf with Pandoc
Show word count with Pandoc and a lua script
Show paragraph count on pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Rename multiple files from the command line
Copy, move or delete recently modified or downloaded files
Find files or directories from the command-line with find
You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files: use the programme grep
Replace all occurences of a word in one or many files from the command line with sed
Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal)
Compare files, “accept/reject” (like in Word) and merge changes, with diff and patch
.vimrc file of a writer (not a programmer)
Show word count of a text file from the command line with wc or pandoc & lua
A vim script to mark folds on Markdown headers by default
Change vim color scheme
A guide to simple and stupid usage of computers for writers (anyone who writes really)
Start using vim
Start using (the programme) “less” to display files
Start using Markdown
Start using git to keep track of file versioning
Start using Pandoc
Set Vim as the default text editor for Mutt
A mutt configuration file (muttrc) for Proton mail (with bridge)
Show word count in vim
Start using the command-line interface (cli)
Justify or right-align text in Markdown using HTML
Remove file id extension from file name when downloading with youtube-dl
Download mp3 audio track only (no video) from YouTube with youtube-dl
Copy the content of a file to the clipboard from the command line
Change the expiration date (time) of a gpg subkey
Download mp3 files from a webpage with wget
Show the time of other time zones from the command line
Restore your data from backup with the programme Back in Time
Back up your computer (/home) on an external drive with the programme Back in Time
Switch from nano to vim as default editor in the shell
Make Pandoc file conversion faster
Git asks for password each time I “git push”. Solution: caching credentials with git
Convert an HTML webpage into an EPUB file with Pandoc
Follow a YouTube channel with RSS (without a Google/YouTube account)
A roadmap to reclaiming my attention and time
Follow websites or blogs you like with a RSS reader
Add a forgotten file to the last commit
Edit the message of the last commit
Add newly made modifications to the last commit
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