Bash styling(themeing), the stylist way.

2010-02-04 1 min read Bash

For last couple of days, I have been looking for solutions to make stlying my bash easier. So, first a screenshot of the effort:

I was looking for the simplest solutions to do this. So, I installed two packages to make my life easier : bashstyle and fortune.

sudo yum install fortune\*

For bash-style you can download the source files <a href="http://www.nanolx.org/bashstyle-ng/" target="_blank">here. Download the file, then do the following:

grep -v with multiple patterns.

2010-01-25 1 min read Bash Linux

$ sed '/test/{/error|critical|warning/d}' somefile If you wanted to do all in one command, you could go w/ sed instead

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sed tutorial and help

2010-01-21 1 min read Linux

A very nice turorial and help <a href="http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/tutorials/">here.

change the terminal title dynamically in X11

2010-01-09 1 min read Bash GNOME Linux

I was actually looking for this for quite sometime. Some years back in my bashrc was the proper setting for setting the terminal title when I did a cd, and I had completely forgotten how to do it. So today I searched quite a few commands the environment variables for doing the same and found it again.

Here it is (Just put this in your bashrc or bash_profile):

export PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne ”\033]0;`pwd`”; echo -ne ”\007”’
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shell — one liner to selectively change case

2010-01-07 2 min read Bash

Today I had a hard time, I had a herculian task of converting the case of file to upper case. Well that’s not difficult :), I know. What made it difficult was the fact that not the whole file had to be converted but only selective lines containing the work important. Okay now that too is not so difficult, I thought. But again the file size was huge, it had some 9 million lines. So, I just thought of trying my skills of shell programming (dont have much of it anyway). So here’s what I did:

Know when you will type :q in your term instead of vi(m), the alias will chewed you out.

2009-12-20 1 min read Bash Vim Tips

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.
alias :q=’tput setaf 1; echo >&2 ”this is NOT vi(m) :/”; tput sgr0’

Display a block of text with delineated by a start pattern and an end pattern

2009-12-18 1 min read Bash

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 | head -`fgrep -n -m 1 “$2” $3 }
Display a block of text with delineated by a start pattern and an end pattern