One thing that all of us Linux users have probably missed is connecting to the running GNome session to see what is going on in the running session. This can be quite handy in couple of situations: …

Lets take a quick look at how to get the most frequently used commands on you shell. So what we need to do is this: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> history | awk …

To start with , the most simple and easy to use should be “bc”. but just for some guys who want to be more experimental, here are few more bash calulator programs. These are completely command line …

Some errors are too good and though you would have seen them couple of times you don’t realize until sometimes it just hits you, like the one below: […] tar: Cowardly refusing to create an …

Some days back, I had to generate some data to be uploaded to a database. As usual I assumed that bash should be faster and hence wrote the script to create the files in bash. But I found that even …

Here are some links for bash programming that you may find useful. http://tips-linux.net/en/content/pro-bash-programming http://tips-linux.net/en/content/expert-shell-scripting …

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write the output of a command to /var/log/user.log… each line will contain $USER, making this easy to grep for. […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;log() { …

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If you are looking for a command to see the disk usage by each of the rpm‘s then you can use this command: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;rpm -q …