Initialization or clearing of log files
2009/12/22
Like all Unix file systems, open log files can cause a real problem when they get too large and need to be deleted. The problem is, if you delete an open file, the link is removed, but all of the …
7 Examples for Sed Hold and Pattern Buffer Operations
2009/12/22
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35237104750@N01/259102613"><img id="kwiclick-temp-0" title="txt e-book" …
Know when you will type :q in your term instead of vi(m), the alias will chewed you out.
2009/12/20
most simple solution is to alias :q like so: alias :q=`echo ”This is not vim”` but as someone suggested in commandlinefu, you can use tput to put some color and fun into this. …
Change information for the user on Linux machine.
2009/12/19
Today I have couple of hours to spare and thus thought might as well spend it on my blog. The finger command in *nix systems is used to display the information on the users. This information is taken …
Chrome – Chromium on Linux (repo)
2009/12/19
Fedora people put up a repo for the chrome web browser and it is quite frequently updated. All you need to do to install the browser is following: […] sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/chrome.repo …
Opens Four Google Frames At Once
2009/12/19
Googlegooglegooglegoogle: Opens Four <a class="zem_slink" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google Frames At Once …
Yahoo adds Glue to make search more useful
2009/12/19
The article is so good in itself that I need not say anything more than giving the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/nov/20/yahoo-glue" …
check out http://browsershots.org/
2009/12/19
If you are a web developer and are worried about how your <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website" title="Website" …
Display a block of text with delineated by a start pattern and an end pattern
2009/12/18
Taken idea from commandlinefu.com The command will display a segment from the file from the start pattern to the end pattern. function viewsegment() { tail -n +`fgrep -n -m 1 “$1” $3 | …
Compiz/Beryl issue on Fedora.
2009/12/15
Since quite some time I was getting the below error when I am trying to run compiz. I was busy and also was not working in Gnome so did not look at this until today. […] compiz (core) – Fatal: …
Tip: Using find Command in Linux
2009/12/10
Ok this I was planning for quite sometime.. but found this <a href="http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/tip-using-find-command-in-linux" target="_blank">here. Worth reading for …
Google wave invitation available with me.
2009/12/10
I have couple of wave invitations available with me, added yesterday by wave team to my accounts. Thanks to wave. It seems that lot of people suddenly saw that the wave invitations remaining in their …