autojump: Linux cd command on steroids

autojump is “a cd command that learns,” one that programatically learns your favorite directories and allows you to minimize keyboard input to get you where you want.

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The jumpstat command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes usable. Autojump will listen and rank your ‘cd’ commands by frequency.

This seems like a good utility for commandline purists!

Mount Disks in Ubuntu

I’m currently working on a server migration and doing backups at the same time, all this on a remote VPS, and I just realized I keep on forgetting how to mount disks in Ubuntu and Linux in general. This Ubuntu guide on Mount/USB was very helpful. Basically, these are the commands that come handy:

sudo mkdir /media/external
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/external

Or something close to that.

If you play a lot with Compiz Fusion and …

If you play a lot with Compiz Fusion and managed to ruin your config file and now you can’t boot into GNOME, here’s a simple command line fix: gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz

Linux tips

Having just done some work on a Linux webserver, here’s some articles I recently used to make tasks just a bit easier.