Kill process
pkill -9 name*
Chain commands
com1; com2
Recursive delete folder
rm -rf dirPath
Change owner
sudo chown newOwner file/dir # single file/dir sudo chown -R newOwner dirpath # recursively
Restart Apache server:
sudo service apache2 restart
Change Anaconda Python environment:
source activate p2/p3/envName
Update and run startup script
gedit ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc
Make Ubuntu terminal auto-complete case insensitive
Run this and restart terminal:
echo "bind 'set completion-ignore-case on'" >> ~/.bashrc
From this SO answer.
Truncate a log file (without deleting it)
truncate --size 0 file.log
Resize partitions including the swap partition
Install and run gparted
sudo apt-get install gparted
Then run from start menu by typing gparted
From: https://askubuntu.com/a/126250/702527
If needed to delete the swap partition, run the steps here to update it’s UUID:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/711016/slow-boot-a-start-job-is-running-for-dev-disk-by#753571
Show directories broken down by file size (recursively and visually)
Install and run qdirstat
https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
Get local IP address
ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk '{print $NF; exit}'
Justas Birgiolas 