Install unison on both machines, and make sure both have the same version of unison, with the same version of the ocaml compiler (the smallest difference will cause problems).

1unison -version

Create the ~/.unison directory on both machines.

Make a job called backup:

1JOB=backup

Here is an example job, which …

Basic Information

Let's get some entries with 'getent', e.g. passwd or group.

1getent passwd

1getent group

Obviously:

1getent shadow

Examples

1sudo adduser maestro 

add user 'maestro'

This depends upon the settings in the /etc/default/useradd file and /etc/login.defs

1sudo useradd -m pinkie 

add user 'pinkie' with a …

1. Insert text by pressing i.
2. Stop inserting text by pressing Ctrl+[.
3. Exit with ZZ.
4. Congratulations, you now know vim.

Extras

• Navigation
• Completion
• Search
• Window Splits

Complete the word by searching for the next similar word:

C-n

Complete the word by searching for a previous similar word:

C-p

Complete the full line:

C-x C-l

Put bash in vim mode!

Place the following in your ~/.inputrc:

1set editing-mode vi
2set show-mode-in-prompt on
3set vi-ins-mode-string \1\e[33;32m\2[>]=\1\e[0m\2
4set vi-cmd-mode-string \1\e[33;1m\2[?]=\1\e[0m\2
5
6set keymap vi-insert
7RETURN: "\e\n"

Scroll

C-e

C-y

Jumps

Go through your last jumps:

C-I …

Search for the next and or previous occurrence of the word under your cursor with * and #.

Search and replace the first 'one' found with 'two':

:%s/one/two/

Same, but replace 'one' globally:

:%s/one/two/g

Put quotes around every occurrence of $HOME:

:%s/$HOME/"&"

Same, but add curly brackets around …

Remote Editing

vim scp://user@myserver[:port]//path/to/file.txt

Setup

Arch Linux

1sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules-arch virtualbox-guest-iso

1sudo modprobe vboxdrv

1# vboxreload

Make dd image into vdi

1VBoxManage convertdd base.dd output.vdi --format VDI

If this doesn't work, try to make a new bite size with just

1sudo dd if=image.dd of=image2.dd bs=512 conv=sync

CLI …