Linux notes
- to access your command history using PgnUp/PgnDown, insert in your file
/etc/inputrc
these lines: - convert (to create a .gif animation)
- gs (to create a pdf from .eps files)
- landscape orientation (note the number 1 in the command)
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="output.pdf" -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop -c "<</Orientation 1>> setpagedevice" -f fileA.eps fileB*.eps -c quit
- sudo rsync -axv --max-size=2.4G /* /media/MYPASSPORT/complete_laptop_backup_01Jul2014 --exclude={/media/MYPASSPORT}
(to perform a carbon copy of /* onto the backup folder)
- screen (to create virtual terminals)
- Software
- Mendeley (reference manager and academic social network)
- Matlab
- transparent nan with imagesc:
b=imagesc(x,y,DATA);set(b,'AlphaData',~isnan(DATA));
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward