For those of you, who have not heard about powertop, it is a tool to monitor the power consumption on your system. It has a tab which shows the tuneable parameters. Doing the changes suggested in …

There is a small nifty utility called xmlwf that can check your xml documents to see if they are well formed. sudo yum install expat Once installed, simply use : xmlwf Need more details, just check …

There are some commands that take file name and there are some case where you need to give file name. But there are some cases where you want to modify the file before passing it to the command. What …

Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner: rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm" …

Image by jeffalldridge via Flickr […] Here is something that I found on the commandlinefu cp /work/host/phone/ui/main.cpp !#$:s/host/target Ah well…its very interesting and very useful. Some …

some quick links : http://mainstreetanswers.org/bash/math.php http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/mathc.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/mathc.html

If you are looking for a command to see the disk usage by each of the rpm‘s then you can use this command: […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> &nbsp;rpm -q …

I was working on something and needed to output the string n times. I have required this even to print a line with &#8217;-&#8217; or &#8217;=&#8217; but this time I badly wanted it in …

my favourite <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser">gtkrc-2 file. Snapshot of how it looks. <a …

Since I updated to the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 13, I was getting …

<a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/prepend-to-a-file-with-sponge-from-moreutils.html">A few weeks I wrote about a tool, which helps you easily prepend to a file. I submitted prepend …

I was having a really bad day and needed a quick solution to create some csv files. And this I needed to do for multiple data kinds and patterns, so I created this small script to do the job for me… …