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Even better, you can define your own completion rules for other commands and applications.
Even better, you can define your own completion rules for other commands and applications.


Read more on "howto" [http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/316 here]
Read more on "howto" here: [http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/316 part 1] and [http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_introduction_to_bash_completion_part_2 part 2]

Revision as of 10:32, 18 May 2009

Notes about installing and setup of various apps and features in Ubuntu




Misc tasks

Other nice external links and howto-s

Tunneling to socks proxy

ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy

In short:
$ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server
Then set in Firefox to use a SOCKS proxy: “localhost", port 9999

Acroread on Ubuntu

The link: [1]

Check the ports and apps listening on them

netstat -lnptu

Listing members of a group

I.e., the opposite to the command 'groups myuser'

sudo apt-get install members     [if needed]
members groupname


Custom autocomplete in Ubuntu

It is nice to use TAB key to autocomlete path for example, for a ls command in bash. It turns out, you can also autocomplete certain command arguments, e.g. apt-get inst<TAB> expands to apt-get install. Even better, you can define your own completion rules for other commands and applications.

Read more on "howto" here: part 1 and part 2