pkgwat -search packages for Fedora.

2013-08-23 1 min read Fedora
pkgwat is a nice utility to search the fedora packages websearch. Description : Pronounced "package WAT", pkgwat is a fast CLI tool for querying : the fedora packages webapp. : https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ : : You can make its search even better by helping us tag packages. : https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger And to search for a package, you can use :: pkgwat search pkgwat -h # get help on package. Related articles pkgwat.cli 0.8 Enabling Cisco WebEx in Fedora 19 Fedora Release Party F19, Venezuela

Your own local search engine.

2012-04-09 1 min read Fedora Learning Uncategorized
There are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution. You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions. download omega from http:// xapian.org/download yum install xapian libuuid-devel And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the instructions. Federated Search Engine Diagram (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Create index using command omindex Continue reading

Google gravity for fun

2012-03-11 1 min read Uncategorized
Image via CrunchBase 1) Write ‘Google Gravity‘ in Google search box,press enter. 2) Click on the 1st result that appears i.e. Google Gravity. 3) Wait 2 seconds. Something cool will happen. 4) Play with it for a while. 5) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter. 6) Wait and see. Something even cooler will happen 🙂 Awesome !!!.. Related articles Google Gravity (mgitecetech.wordpress.com) Google Sphere (mgitecetech. Continue reading

Another nice and feature rich alternative to Google Search

2011-06-27 2 min read Uncategorized
Image via CrunchBase Some time back I had written a post on Scroogle. Scroogle is good, it provides privacy. But if you want more for your browsing experience, something that you thought was always missing in a lot of search engines, then there’s a better search engine and it is DuckDuckGo. The very first reason that you may want to use this search engine is that it does not bubble you and neither it tracks you. Continue reading

Empty a file

2010-12-26 1 min read Learning Linux
<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Calculator.NET_Screenshot.png">Wikipedia</a> </dd> </dl> This one is for those who know the “touch” command. Hope all of us do not follow a command just because it is on one of the popular site without trying to understand the command and the output. Empty a file 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> touch file </div> </td> </tr> * View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites * View all commands by noisy Continue reading

more powerful grep – ack

2010-05-26 2 min read bash Fedora
For last couple of days, I have been using ack instead of grep. Here is description of ack: Ack is designed as a replacement for grep. There are couple of reasons I am using ack. First and foremost being it does not require a filename. So, for seaching amit in all files recursively under the current directory I can simply use ack amit More reasons to use ack: It supports pager option and there can be a rc file that can be used to define the default options that needs to be used with ack. Continue reading
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