procinfo and procinfo-ng : Get system information from /proc.
2012/08/10
Install procinfo or procinfo-ng. The procinfo contains three programs : /usr/bin/lsdev /usr/bin/procinfo /usr/bin/socklist and procinfo-ng contains :: /usr/bin/procinfo-ng The description for both of …
vim mappings for multiple files.
2012/08/06
If you open multiple files in vim with command line option. Then the only way to move between the files is “:n” and “:N”. There is a easier way to do this. Just add mappings for this in vimrc. Here is …
gqlplus – sqlplus with readline (tab completion)
2012/08/03
Tab completion is something which is missing in the sqlplus and if you have lot of tables with long names or lot of columns then it is sufficiently difficult to type them 🙂 Here is a solution for this …
C program to get the ascii string from a string
2012/07/25
Lot of times, you would like to get the complete string in hex or ascii format and if you are one of them then this is something that will be helpful for you 🙂 Example output: […] …
Music players on Linux – the poor mans random song player.
2012/07/20
If you have more applications running on your system then your system can handle them then you know what I mean when I say that the Music Players take a lot of CPU. Otherwise harmless, but when you …
colorgcc – Color your compiler output on Fedora
2012/07/11
Lets start with installing colorgcc : sudo yum install colorgcc Now once that is done, you will need to ensure that the call to g++, gcc and others that you want to use, you will need to create a link …
Ignore CVS and svn directories in bash autocompletion.
2012/07/07
CVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂
Ubuntu setup – post installation script
2012/07/03
If you have done a new installation of Ubuntu or Fedora, then yuou know you have to search all kind of blogs to find out what all to install. So, here is a easier way to do that. Just run this script, …
convert word document to html
2012/06/27
First install the required package: sudo yum install wv Description: […] And here is the list of the programs that this utility provides: /usr/bin/wvAbw /usr/bin/wvCleanLatex /usr/bin/wvConvert …
tora installation on Fedora 17.
2012/06/22
Here are the previous links on Tora: Tora on F16 Tora on Fedora And if you are interested in installing from source then you can always use this link: …
rpmconf – Tool to handle rpmsave and rpmnew files
2012/06/18
Install the utility: sudo yum install rpmconf Description: […] And finally run the utility: sudo rpmconf -a and if there is a conflict or rpmsave or rpmnew file, then you will see something …
symlinks -delete all invalid soft links in Linux/Fedora
2012/06/12
First of all, install symlinks if it is not installed : sudo yum install symlinks and here is the description: […] and the help for the same: […] symlinks: scan/change symbolic links – …