I have been very busy last week and specially yesterday with 20 hours of continueous work, but managed to get this working :). When you right click on Xterm with Ctrl pressed, there pops up a menu for …

$ «.>note Bash internal quick note taker, avoiding calling external programs like cat […] <a href="http://www.commandlinefu.com"><img …

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/unix_shell" title="Unix shell" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell">Linux Shell Scripting …

All work and no fun makes Jack dull boy. So lets do something for fun. Here is a one liner I wrote sometime back. The original idea is not mine and I don&#8217;t remeber where I got the idea from …

There is a problem with bash completion with quote_readline that causes the completion to fail. The problem is fixed in the bash completion package but there are still some other programs which are …

Here&#8217;s one script that you may find useful. A little variation or wrapper for this script can make your life colorful 🙂 You can write a wrapper to this to take one of the inputs randomly and …

Jan Goyvaerts on <a href="http://www.regex-guru.info/2008/11/detecting-urls-in-a-block-of-text/" target="_blank">Detecting URLs in a Block of Text In his blog post <a …

I wrote a blog on bash script to change the icon/cursor theme using a bash script. Lets extend the same concept a little more and use the script to change the gtk theme for gnome and at the same time …

I generally use vi/vim for all my practical purposes of working with text files. And I have all the vi/vim plugins required to work with the files. This causes the following to be in the skeleton for …

Useless Linux Terminal Commands Not long ago, I have listed here some useful Linux terminal commands and those that I described as deadly. This time, I decided to gather some commands that I think …

The above command is very useful to change certain regular expressions in couple of files in one directory. This can be used in variety of ways to achieve a lot of things which would normally take …

Here are some of the funtions that I have in my bashrc to make my life simple. They are not written by me but mostly taken from other places, but modified by me to some extent to suit my needs. If you …