Fedora
create text tables from delimited files.
2013/07/12
To create simple text tables to paste in emails or to use in any other document where you want to show a table, here is something that you can use. There is a perl module which provides “tablify“. And …
convert tabs to spaces, the easy way
2013/07/08
Lots of times you want to convert tabs to spaces and sometimes from a shell script, if that is the case, then simple solution is “tidy“. First you need to install tidy as follows: sudo yum install …
Fedora – Ramdisk creation
2013/05/10
In Fedora, ramdisks are not created by default as is the case with RHEL. So, if you need to get Ramdisks on Fedora, then you can do this: sudo yum install MAKEDEV This will create some default …
cksum – compare for multiple files.
2013/04/30
If you have to compare cksum for couple of files, the you know how cumbersome it is. So, I wrote a simple script, wherein you can create a file called cksums in the current directory and copy paste …
configure firewall – the easy way.
2013/04/24
It is good practice to keep iptables/firewall enabled. But configuring it is difficult, do you agree. Not any more 🙂 Install firewall-config sudo yum install firewall-config This will install a GUI …
sendmail or sending mail
2013/04/19
If you want to use sendmail so that you can send all your mails from the local system to your email address, then you have to use sendmail. Now, configuring sendmail has never been that easy and if …
ss – anothre utility to investigate sockets.
2013/04/11
ss is : […] ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state informationsthan other tools. […] This comes in …
dwb – keyboard driven browser
2013/04/08
First off, install using the command sudo yum install dwb Now for the description: […] dwb is small webkit-based web-browser in the spirit of tiling window managers,that aims to be mostly …
duff – find duplicate files.
2013/03/19
duff – description: […] Description : Duff is a command-line utility for quickly finding d […] uplicates in a given set of files […] and now time to execute : find . -type f …
dnsmasq not starting from NetworkManager with SELinux enabled.
2013/03/16
Some time back I posted on dnsmasq starting from Network Manager and how to setup dnsmasq. Now, couple of days back , I setup dnsmasq in NetworkManager but was astonished to see that there was no …
steam on Linux – for Fedora
2013/02/22
I was trying to get steam on linux on my Fedora box. Headed over to steam website, but was astonished to find only Ubuntu client over there. A little googling presented me with the developer website …
viewvc – serve current directory in web interface.
2013/02/18
Here is the description of viewvc: […] ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. It generates templatized HTML to present navigable directory, revision, …