bash
Backup of files in the directory.
2011/12/01
I was working on some scripts and the changes that I was making in the scripts was very dynamic, which I did want to keep backing up in the version control system. But for the peace of my mind, I …
Linux hardware details.
2011/11/28
Here is one of the scripts that I found on the net while searching for something … Note the URL for the script in the Description.
Add ssh key to remote host
2011/11/15
Image via Wikipedia […] If you are working on recent versions of the *nix OS like Fedora or Ubuntu then you would know about the commad ssh-copy-id. But if you land up using one of the older …
using `!#$’ to referance backward-word
2011/11/03
Image by jeffalldridge via Flickr […] Here is something that I found on the commandlinefu cp /work/host/phone/ui/main.cpp !#$:s/host/target Ah well…its very interesting and very useful. Some …
Compare files excluding certain lines.
2011/10/18
Quick tip, you can use any expression for the sed commands in the (). With this trick you can redirect the stdout of 2 commands to the diff command. This might become very useful, if you want to …
Cont: Get yourself some more conkyrc files.
2011/10/12
Last time we got ourselves some conkyrc files from the ubuntu forums. But that scripts gets the files only from the First page of the thread. Lets extend this further and get the script to get all the …
Creating a chroot environment – the script.
2011/09/23
Here is the script, very simple and effective 🙂 #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: mkchroot.sh # # USAGE: ./mkchroot.sh # # …
Creating a chroot environment in Fedora with bash and other utils.
2011/09/19
[ad#ad-2] I am testing some of my scripts to work on a very old system and there the versions of the most popular applications are very old, real old :(. So, some of things that I am very used to …
better bash debugging
2011/09/16
I was trying to debug some bash scripts yesterday and learnt something new 😉 There are lot of things in bash that you can use to debug and to start with you can enable xtrace mode as follows: set -x …
[Solved] ssh works but scp does not
2011/08/29
Image via Wikipedia […] For quite sometime now, I was having this issue, that for the home system, I was able to connect to is using ssh but it never worked. Fnally after quite some debugging …
bash completion
2011/08/09
I was working on some functions in bash to make my life easier and realized that if I added custom completion to my functions, it will be really good. So I headed over to google and searched for what …
faster bash operations on files with File Descriptors.
2011/06/11
I was writing a bash script that would do some operations and read and write to file. Seems that that was pretty simple with […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> while …