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Need to know what day a specific date is? Meet the 'cal' command 🧰
This little nifty tool is typically preinstalled on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and others.
💡 Without a parameter it shows you the current month
💡 Use -m or -M to start the weekday on a Monday
💡 Give it a year to see the full yearFast, clear, and no distractions 😎
Command missing? Package name to install might be bsdmainutils or ncal.
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Need to know what day a specific date is? Meet the 'cal' command 🧰
This little nifty tool is typically preinstalled on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and others.
💡 Without a parameter it shows you the current month
💡 Use -m or -M to start the weekday on a Monday
💡 Give it a year to see the full yearFast, clear, and no distractions 😎
Command missing? Package name to install might be bsdmainutils or ncal.
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Also want to learn more common key combinations to speed up navigating within your terminal?
For example the Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E to navigate to the beginning and end of the line.
OpenBSD's ksh has a built-in command to display key bindings: bind
Little small things that make life easier 😍
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Also want to learn more common key combinations to speed up navigating within your terminal?
For example the Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E to navigate to the beginning and end of the line.
OpenBSD's ksh has a built-in command to display key bindings: bind
Little small things that make life easier 😍
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💡 New to OpenBSD and wondering what fw_update does?
No, it does not update your firewall 🔥 😉
The fw_update tool can be used to download additional firmware that is not by default available in the installation (often due to its license).
You can perform a dry-run to see what it already has and what it would do.
💻 fw_update -n -vvv
📔 man fw_update
Do you like these tips? 🔁
Do you have a tip for those new to OpenBSD?
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💡 New to OpenBSD and wondering what fw_update does?
No, it does not update your firewall 🔥 😉
The fw_update tool can be used to download additional firmware that is not by default available in the installation (often due to its license).
You can perform a dry-run to see what it already has and what it would do.
💻 fw_update -n -vvv
📔 man fw_update
Do you like these tips? 🔁
Do you have a tip for those new to OpenBSD?
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FreeBSD has a great way of monitoring IO (input/output) with the help of the top command.
This options makes it a lot easier to find which process is causing disk activity (which can be displayed with 'iostat')
Command: top -m io -b
Do you have useful commands that others running FreeBSD should know?
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FreeBSD has a great way of monitoring IO (input/output) with the help of the top command.
This options makes it a lot easier to find which process is causing disk activity (which can be displayed with 'iostat')
Command: top -m io -b
Do you have useful commands that others running FreeBSD should know?
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On #OpenBSD one only has the third-party #wget tool if one has installed the ports tree and installed wget from it.
The native HTTP download tool in the operating system itself is the `ftp` command. The option to use for resuming downloads is -C, and the same caveats as for wget apply about files that have actually changed in the interim.
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On #OpenBSD one only has the third-party #wget tool if one has installed the ports tree and installed wget from it.
The native HTTP download tool in the operating system itself is the `ftp` command. The option to use for resuming downloads is -C, and the same caveats as for wget apply about files that have actually changed in the interim.