Nix Geek

Author: dabeagles

Colorize CLI FreeBSD

FreeBSD uses csh as its default shell (I personally prefer tcsh which is available), but one thing one might notice is that ll (or ls -l) is not colorized. This can be corrected by adding the following to the .cshrc file in your home directory (or root directory): setenv CLICOLOR 1 Once you do this, […]

Vim Text Editor in FreeBSD

If you are experienced with vi in a Linux setting, I suggest actually going with vim in FreeBSD for 2 reasons: – it performs more like vi does in Linux (vi is a little different and frustrating in FreeBSD) – colorized coding just like it does in Linux To add Vim to your FreeBSD installation, […]

Install XFCE on FreeBSD 11

The following will show how to install XFCE on FreeBSD 11. Before we get started, I’d like to note that I will be using the vesa driver as that is currently working for my installation over the named intel driver. Install XFCE using the following: pkg update && pkg upgrade pkg install xorg xf86-video-vesa xfce […]

Syntax Highlighting in Vi

You do not need to install vim in order to highlight syntax. You can do so with the vi command: :syntax on

Remove Multiple Files In The Same File Path

The following is how to remove multiple files in a file path without having to use multple commands, or changing directories: rm -f /path/to/files/{file1,file2,file3} Example: rm -f /home/beagles/Pictures/{All.jpg,For.jpg,One.jpg}

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