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In this post we gonna see how to find size of a directory from Terminal. To summarise disk usage of each file, recursively for directories, we can use the following command du [option]... [FILE/Directory]... To get the report in human readable format, along with the overall summary, use du -hs /path/to/directory To find sizes of directories recursively unto a certain depth (e.g.: depth = 2): du -h --max-depth=2 /path/to/directory

Hello guys, In this post I'm gonna show you "How to display and play with a list of recent commands in Ubuntu?". To check history of command or to get info about command executed by user, we can use the following command: history It will display the list of all the command executed, along with a serial number indiacating the oerder in which they are executed. Now you may feel it dificult to find a specific command among them. In order to do so, we can combine the history with grep. history | grep version This will display a list of command in which the word "version" has appeared. We can also execute a specific command by knowing its serial number from this list. After getting the result from history command, just type the number preceeded by ! to execute the command. To execute command which is at number 115 in the list, just type !115 It will run the 115th command in the history list. To re-run a recent command that starts with xyz, just ty...

    1. Find what the drive is called You'll need to know what the drive is called to mount it. To do that fire off: sudo fdisk -l You're looking for a partition that should look something like:   /dev/sdb1 . Remember what it's called. 2. Create a mount point Create a new directory in   /media   so you can mount the drive onto the filesystem: sudo mkdir /media/usb 3. Mount! sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb When you're done, just fire off: sudo umount /media/usb Source: StackOverflow

If you ever find it difficult to find the logout button(sometimes happens - out of screen), run this command /usr/bin/gnome-session-save --logout or /usr/bin/gnome-session-save --force-logout