This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic. …

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Insert a comment on command line for reminder […] $ ls -alh #mycomment […] Comments can be …

For those of the terminal freaks, color is a bliss. But have you tried all the colors in the terminal. Today someone forwarded me a bash one liner for the same. Not sure where he got this from, anyway …

if you want to open any document with the default document handler from the bash prompt or command prompt in linux then the simplest way to do that is use &#8221;xdg-open&#8221;. This can also …

<a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell-check-for-any-mp3-files-in-directory/">Use BASH nullglob To Verify *.c Files Exists or Not In a Directory has a nice explanation on …

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category delay: 2d On screen display of a command. $ date|osd_cat This is very useful if you need to show someone …

Earlier I had posted a small blog on teamgit. The problem still is that you have to manually go to the git.kernel.org page and get the list of the repo&#8217;s that you can download. How about a …

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Change user, assume environment, stay in current dir $ su — user I&#8217;ve used this a number of …

I am quite regular visitor of milw0rm and generally try to keep up with the vul&#8217;s. For doing this I wrote a small scripts rather set of scripts to keep myself update. Here&#8217;s what …

I having been looking for something like this for sometime. Found <a href="http://beginlinux.com/desktop_training/comm/shells/232-bash" target="_blank">this while searching. …

For last couple of days, I was thinking of putting this. I was thinking of some way to get the IP address of the client directly rather than going through some site or parsing the content. So <a …

Lot of times, I copy the text but before pasting want to remove a word or make some other changes or add “wget” to the URL, quite common. So, I came up with this alias replace='echo $(xclip -i)|sed …