Linux/Unix more command FAQ: Can you share some Linux more command examples?
The Unix/Linux more command lets you scroll through large files, or large amounts of output from other commands.
To scroll through the contents of a large file named "large_file" you can use the Unix more command like this:
more large_file
As a quick aside, I see a lot of people use the Linux cat command and more commands this way:
The Linux locate command lets you easily find files in the filesystem. It works by maintaining a system-wide database of "all files which are publicly accessible". The database itself is updated periodically by a background process. Because of this approach it returns results much faster than the find command, which only looks for files when you tell it to. Depending on your system, the locate command may need to be configured initially, or it may be pre-configured to work out of the box.
As its name implies, the Linux mkdir ("make directory") command lets you create new directories.
Creating a new directory in your current directory is very simple. In our first mkdir example, we'll show how to create a new directory named "dir1":
mkdir dir1
If you want to create several directories at one time you can use a mkdir command like this:
Linux head/tail FAQ: Can you share some examples of the Linux head and tail commands?
Sure. The Linux head and tail commands are very similar, so I've included them here together. The head command command prints lines from the beginning of a file (the head), and the tail command prints lines from the end of files. There's one very cool extra thing you can do with the tail command, and I'll show that in the tail example commands below.
The Linux cat command means "concatenate and print files". Usually all I use it for is to display a file's contents, like this command that displays the contents of a file named "lighten-images.sh":
Whew, getting all the images together for the Tame Swing sample applications is taking a little time and a lot of effort. I hadn't thought about how to organize it, and now that I have a better feel for what I want to do it's just a matter of time.
If you want to see the images of the running applications I do have them on a temporary page here. Please note that this page may change at any time.
Question: How do I convert a String to a double with Java?
Answer: Converting a String to a double requires that you first convert the String to a Double object, then convert the Double object to a double data type (Double is an object, while double is a primitive data type).
Here's the source code for an example Java program that performs this conversion:
Java file writing FAQ: How do I append text to the end of a text file in Java?
The short answer is that you should create a FileWriter instance with the append flag set to true, like this:
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("checkbook.dat", true));
The rest of this article explains this.
Java String/float FAQ: How do I convert a Java String to a float?
Converting a String to a float requires that you first convert the String to a Float object, then convert the Float object to a float data type (Float is an object, while float is a primitive data type).
An example of a simple program that performs this conversion is shown below:
Question: How do I convert a String to a long with Java?
Answer: The Long class includes a method named parseLong() that serves just this purpose. An example of a simple program that performs this conversion is shown below:
As I note here I just uploaded the Tame Swing examples to the web site. Please read that post for more information.
Digging through my Mac laptop, I just found the old Tame Swing files laying around. These examples are a little old now, but I think they are great examples of the power of the Java Swing framework. Since they are hard to find on the internet I've gathered them into a little collection here.
Currently I just have the Java source code files there, but give me a couple of days and I'll see what I can do to get some of the examples running, and maybe include some screen shots there as well.
The Linux find command is used to locate files and directories based on a wide variety of criteria. I'll try to cover the most common find examples here.
To find a file or directory named "foo" somewhere below your current directory use a find command like this:
find . -name foo
If the filename begins with "foo" but you can't remember the rest of it, you can use a wildcard character like this:
The Linux mv command lets you move one or more files or directories. Since it's very similar to the cp command, I'll move through this post quickly.
To rename a file currently named "foo" to a new file named "bar" just type:
mv foo bar
Although it's called the Linux mv command, it's commonly used to rename files.
To move a file named "foo" to the /tmp directory type:
I'm just starting to get into making my Java/Swing application look and feel a lot more like a native Mac application. I've created two earlier posts on this topic already, including Making your Swing application look like a Mac application, and Putting your JMenuBar on the Mac menu bar.
I've been working hard lately to get a lot of ideas out of my head and onto the blog. Here's a summary of what I've posted recently on the Unix/Linux side:
The Linux cp command lets you copy one or more files or directories. To be clear, the cp command makes a duplicate copy of your information, whereas the mv command moves your information from one location to another.
Let's take a look at some Linux cp command examples.
Using a Linux or Unix system, to copy a file named "foo" to a new file named "bar" just type:
The Linux grep command is used to search for text. The name "grep" means something like "general regular expression parser", and if you look at the grep man page it says "print lines matching a pattern". I always tell people that if they don't like the name "grep" they can think of it as "search" instead.
In "grep tutorial", we'll share a number of grep example commands. Let's get started.
The Linux cd command is used to navigate around the Linux filesystem. In this post I'll show the most common uses of the cd command.
To move to another directory on the filesystem just use the Linux cd command to move to the desired directory. For instance, this command:
cd /tmp
moves you to the /tmp directory, and this command:
cd /foo/bar
would move you to a directory named /foo/bar, assuming that directory existed.
As I've started to work on designing an HTML editor I'd like for the Mac platform, a little irony has set in: I find that I don't want to write it in Objective C. Given my history with Java, I find that I don't want to be tied to one platform, even Mac OS X. What if I install Ubuntu later this week (as scheduled) and fall madly in love with it? I want my application to work there also.