Useless Linux Terminal Commands

2010-03-21 1 min read Bash Linux

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 have no practical use. I know it sounds interesting but you may disagree with me on some of the commands that I’ll list here as you may find a few of them useful. We can however agree to disagree as long as you explain to us why or how you find them handy.

Solaris commands.

2010-03-21 1 min read Linux

prtdiag
vmstat
iostat
uname -a

Will update this shortly with the details for these commands.

Blessed with baby girl.

2010-03-21 1 min read Linux

<font face="sans-serif">I have been blessed with baby girl. Just wanted to share with you all.

Cool OpenOffice.org Easter Eggs

2010-03-21 0 min read Linux

$\"OpenOffice.\"$: Image via Wikipedia

Since it’s almost <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/easter" title="Easter" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter">Easter Sunday, I will be sharing with you several cool <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_%28media%29">virtual Easter eggs hidden inside some of our favorite <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/application_software" title="Application software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software">software applications. Today, we will take a look at some Easter eggs inside <a href="http://www.junauza.com/2009/05/8-essential-openoffice-extensions.html">OpenOffice.org so get ready to have fun or be amused.

Quick tip to change parameters in different files

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

for i in *.cfg; do mv $i $i.bak;sed \’s/a/b/\’ $i.bak > $i; done

The above command is very useful to change certain regular expressions in couple of files in one directory. This can be used in variety of ways to achieve a lot of things which would normally take some time to do manually.

Linux find command – Find file and directories faster and easier

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

This command is very powerfull when used with combination of filters and pipes and RE.

I will give some example:

find . -type f –» List all files
find . -type f -exec rm {} <a class=“zem_slink” title=“Path (computing)” href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29" rel=“wikipedia”>\; –» Delete all files
find . -type d -exec rm {} \; –» Will through some common errors 🙂
find . -name "name" –> find files containing name in the filename
find . -atime 12 –> Find files accessed 12 days ago
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Edit a File When You Are Viewing It Using more / less Command

2010-03-16 2 min read Linux

<a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/edit-file-when-youre-viewing-withmore-less/">Aritcle here.

<span style="color: #ff0000;">Question: I can use <a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/less-is-more-the-hidden-treasure-of-less-command.html">less or more pagers to view a file. How do I start an editor (such as vi or other text editor) to edit the current file without leaving the less or more pager command?