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unix-rosetta
This cheat sheet is under development
| purpose |
Arch |
Fedora |
FreeBSD |
debian |
| list files installed by a specific binary package |
pacman -Ql pkg |
rpm -ql pkg |
pkg info -l pkg |
dpkg-query -L pkg |
| list verbose information about an available, but not installed binary package |
pacman -Qi pkg |
|
pkg search -f pkg |
|
| create a loopback device out of a file |
modprobe loop loop_max=16 && losetup /dev/loop0 [file] |
modprobe loop loop_max=16 && losetup -o32256 /dev/loop0 [file] |
mdconfig -f [file] /dev/md0 |
|
| create a loopback device out of a file |
sudo [username] |
sudo [username] |
su -m [username] |
|
| list block devices |
lsblk |
ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ |
geom disk list |
|
Programs (alternatives)
| industrial standard |
alternative |
| Indesign |
Scribus |
| Photoshop |
Krita or Gimp |
| Illustrator |
Inkscape |
dc - desktop calculator
One of the oldest unix programs (even older then C) is hard to use, but
available within all distributions, sometimes as part of bc, but bc is
much newer. It uses reverse-polish notation and works by putting inputs
on an internal stack. The input can be done line-wise, but also joined
into one:
!#/bin/dc
10
3
/
p
10 3/p
3.33333
10k 10 3/p
3.3333333333
10k10 3/p
3.3333333333
20k10 3/p
3.33333333333333333333