# For how to set up magic space for Bash see: # – http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/#slide15 # – http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1690 man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p …

Problem: I had a directory with a lot of config files in the ini file format, i.e. name and value separated by equals. Some/all of these contained some directory names and other values which had to be …

up () { for i in $(seq 1 $1) ; do cd ..; pushd +1 ; done; } — if you like the popd and pushd way .. up () { for i in $(seq 1 $1) ; do cd ..; done; } — otherwise .. <div …

Here I will take an example of rss2email list, but I guess I will be able to pass on the concept. Here is example of the output of the r2e list command: […] 1: …

Lot of times I end up changing a particular text in config file to some other text. And when I have to do it for multiple files, all files having the text in multiple places, I end up opening the …

Today I was just wondering how good it would be to have a script to change the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vim" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" …

I wrote a simple script today to get all the partitions on all the disks and then create <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fstab" title="Fstab" rel="wikipedia" …

This is one of my favourites, alwahs keep it handy. Linux is case sensitive by nature but you will always find filenames jumbled up in the case. So what is the solution: […] bind &#8221;set …

cdargs is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bash" title="Bash" rel="homepage" href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html">bash shell cd with …

$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gzip" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; …

There are more than one situation where you wished that there was a simple way to print a character n number of times. At least I face that quite often, especially when you want to print a menu. I …

$ purple-remote "setstatus?status=away&message=AFK" Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn&#8217;t aware of purple-remote existence. […] <a …