Commonly used UniCode symbols
- You can find more in Solaria's Symbols
- Click on the buttons to copy them to the clipboard.
- Emojis are UniCode too. ☺
- How to write UniCode with the ID's
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The Unicode itself: From U+2660 to U+00002660
(♠ in Hexadecimal) -
In HTML:
&
spades ;(Entity) //8924 ;(Decimal) //2660 ;(Hexadecimal) -
In CSS: '\2660'
(Hexadecimal) - Keycombos for typing them in if you know the hexadecimal Unicode code:
- For Linux:
- Press and hold the left Ctrl and Shift keys
- Type U
- Type in the hexadecimal codepoint sequence, e.g. 1 F 6 0 0 for 😀.
- Release Ctrl and Shift
- For Windows
Misc.
- A quick explanation of 'bg', 'fg' and 'jobs'
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Linux: Making programs run in the console without it being tied to it
heemayl on Stack ExchangeIf you just want to use the terminal interactively again, run the command in the background by appending
&after the command:some_command &
If you want the application to continue functioning after closing the terminal as well, use
nohup:nohup some_command &All STDOUT and STDERR will be redirected to the file
$PWD/nohup.out.Or
disown:some_command & disownBoth
nohupanddisownwill make some_command immune toSIGHUP.Check
man nohupandhelp disownto get more idea on these. -
Root folders of Linux explained I keep forgetting most of the things here, so, since I can add a comment to any folder on my system, I've gotten the idea that I could add a little summary of what each folder is for so I can quickly reference the comment in the future! -
Wikipedia article on dashes
(how to use en-/em-dashes and horizontal bars properly)