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Useful commands for Ubuntu
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ubuntu.md

1. Get a human-readable ascending list of the sizes of files and subdirectories in your current directory (-sh will sumarize the current directory size)

$ du -sh * | sort -h

2. Check Ubuntu version

$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

3. Enable read-write in recovery mode

mount -o rw,remount /

4. Extract file (tar.gz)

$ tar -xf file.tar.gz
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