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Davigetto

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From: In your mind

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 266

Terminal commands for some actions

Well, I have to do a long journey, and I must work with my laptop and save the maximum battery as possible, so I will work in terminal. But I need to know some basic commands, can you help me?

1- Connect to wireless networks:
   - Command for list all detected wireless networks?
   - Command for connect to them? For example: Essid Peter with key 1234567890

2- IRC on terminal? How?

3- Messenger on terminal, is possible?

4- Mail reader on terminal.

5- Burn CD's and DVD's on terminal

6- Listening Music on terminal and do other actions (I have tested Mplayer but I don't know how I can follow listening to music and work without stop music...)

7- Scientific calculator on terminal.

Thanks in advance

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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: Terminal commands for some actions

2) pacman -S irssi
3) pacman -S bitlbee
4) pacman -S mutt (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mutt) (theres also pine)
5) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD_writing http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning_Tips
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning

6) pacman -S mpd mpc ncmpc & then run ncmpc

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Terminal commands for some actions

1a) 'iwlist' is what you want - "iwlist wlan0 scan" will use wlan0 and scan for all networks
1b) 'iwconfig' is used to connect, but you may have to use ifconfig first.  Here's a quick rundown

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid FooBar key xyz
dhcpcd wlan0

2) irssi and weechat are the two forerunners in the arch community as far as I know
3) there's quite a lot - centericq, naim, mcabber, bitlbee (allows you to use an irc client like irssi)
4) mutt, pine, etc
5) this was covered by dolby
6) mpd works quote well, there's also moc, and many many others
7) 'bc' works fairly well, but it might be a but hard to use at first - try here http://www.cyreksoft.yorks.com/gnu-bc/

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Davigetto

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From: In your mind

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 266

Re: Terminal commands for some actions

thank you very much both, it's a very useful information for me ^^

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Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

Posts: 342

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Re: Terminal commands for some actions

also, if you will be using the terminal so much learn to use screen.

ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

Re: Terminal commands for some actions

I have tested Mplayer but I don't know how I can follow listening to music and work without stop music...

I use it.
Just alt+ctrl+Fx where x numbers from 1 to 6. So in fact you have 6 terminals.