Deleting tons of files at once

Okay, suppose you have tons of files you need to delete.. so many that you can't open up the folder, or use ls to delete them in one fell swoop. Suppose further that your files are labeled like, "x_0_0_1_2.dat". Then you can write a loop in you bash terminal as follows:

$ for i in 0 1 2 ; do rm x_${i}_* ; done

The key thing to note here is the curly braces around the iterating variable. If you leave off the braces, it won't work.

$ for i in 3 4 5 ; do rm x_$i_* ; done
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

cat is for concatenate (tfw?)

I always forget how to use the cat utility. Here's how.

Misc Linux Commands

Commands found, here, banner and cal are pretty neat.

SSH and SCP

This is my ssh and scp goto page. (goto. lol.)

Microsoft fonts in Ubuntu

Here is a good tutorial for loading the traditional Microsoft fonts into Ubuntu.