List all installed rpm packages and it’s size

2010-12-09 1 min read Fedora Linux

If you are looking for a command to see the disk usage by each of the rpm‘s then you can use this command:

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      &nbsp;rpm -q --queryformat "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n"
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And if you use this command very regularly then you can create an alias like

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      &nbsp;alias rpm_size='rpm -q --queryformat "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" '
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and use it like

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New feature in Gnome/Nautilus

2010-12-05 1 min read Fedora GNOME

One of the things that I never realized that I am missing in Nautilus until they put the feature in was this. When a file is being copied and there is conflict, there should be option to rename the new file being copied. Also, if the file being copied is image then a small preview/thumbnail would be good.

Yesterday while copying some files, suddenly I noticed that this feature is there now. Pretty useful feature to have. Here’s the screen-shot.

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Happy Birthday Yash

2010-11-28 1 min read Uncategorized

If you don’t know then Yash is my son’s name.. Here are some photos for you 🙂

[Decoration of Birthday Cake][1]
Decoration of Birthday Cake
[Birthday Cake][2]
Birthday Cake
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Birthday Cake

The Hidden PS

2010-11-27 2 min read Bash Linux
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      &nbsp;for p in `ps L|cut -d' ' -f1`;do echo -e "`tput clear;read -p$p -n1 p`";ps wwo pid:6,user:8,comm:10,$p kpid -A;done
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While going through the source code for the well known ps command, I read about some interesting things.. Namely, that there are a bunch of different fields that ps can try and enumerate for you. These are fields I was not able to find in the man pages, documentation, only in the source.

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