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 …

$ alias whatismyip="wget -q -O - <a href="http://whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp"">http://whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp" The preferred way for scripts …

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 …

I was working on a project, where I need to open file from different servers and different paths. I do it with the command: […] vim ftp://username@server/path/filename […] This is okay …

I have been looking to do this for sometime. The bash history is per session basis and the last session to quit overwrites the bash_history file and thus all other terminals started between the time …

Taken from <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-sub-shells" target="_blank">here. […] <span class=\"c\">#!/bin/bash</span> <span …

Here is the bash script: […] #!/bin/sh names[1]=errorlog names[2]=amit1log names[3]=amit2log names[4]=amit3log names[5]=amit4log j=1 echo $1 for i in $( sqlplus amit/passwd@tns @get_count.sql …

Today I want to discuss splitting strings into tokens or “words”. I previously discussed how to do this with the <a …

Threre are certain default variables which control the color of the output from the ls command, so we will talk about them today. The first one is to get the color output from the …

For last couple of days, I have been looking for solutions to make stlying my bash easier. So, first a screenshot of the effort: <img class="size-full wp-image-703" title="bash …