Linux Command Line

Some command line in linux that I found useful.

Categorized into Distro Agnostic (or general, if you prefer) and Distro Specific (or distro based, if you prefer).

Distro Agnostic

Can be used in any linux distros.

• Check desktop session (X11 or Wayland)

  env | grep XDG_SESSION_TYPE

• Refresh fonts (after adding new font in ~/.local/share/fonts or /usr/share/fonts/)

  fc-cache -f -v

• Update icon cache (after adding new icons in ~/.icons) in XFCE

  gtk-update-icon-cache .icons/icons-folder/

• Copy/save file to multiple folders

  tee ~/folder1/file.txt ~/folder2/file.txt ~/folder3/file.txt < ~/file.txt

  or without the output (e.g. the content of the files)

  tee ~/folder1/file.txt ~/folder2/file.txt ~/folder3/file.txt < ~/file.txt >/dev/null

Distro Specific

Can be used in respective linux distro below.

Debian & derivatives (Ubuntu, Pop OS!, Linux Mint, etc.)

• Install .deb package via terminal

  sudo dpkg -i debian-packages.deb

  change the debian-packages.deb to your package name

• Fix missing dependencies after installing packages using sudo dpkg -i command

  sudo apt install -f

• Clean unnecessary packages

  packages that isn't used anymore by other packages.

  sudo apt autoremove