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using cat with grep – why?
2020/01/06
Get the git url of current repo in clipboard
2019/12/30
Lot of times, I just want to copy the git url to clipboard. This is so common in my flow of work that I created an alias for it. Here it is:
i3 – show mapped hotkeys
2019/12/02
Here is a simple script that can show you the hotkeys bound in ~/.config/i3/config : #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: …
Check your session type – wayland or X11
2019/07/15
With both wayland and X11 in mainstream, its pretty easy to forget if you are running in Wayland or in X11. To check this here are the commands:
copy /proc folder
2019/03/18
Other day, I was trying to copy the proc folder with following command: tar cvzf /tmp/proc.tgz /proc and I found out that all the files in tar were empty. Strange it may seem but lot of people are …
cool sed/grep magic to convert output to csv format
2019/03/11
I generallly keep doing this a lot, so thought will share with you. Lets assume we are capturing free ouput every min/hour/or whatever. The output looks like this: […] Time: Mon Jan 21 23:59:10 …
Directories with maximum number of files
2018/12/10
Lot of times, I want to find the directories with maximum number of files and so I wrote this quick function to do exactly the same
xev – Check the X keyboard events
2018/11/19
xev man page […] xev – print contents of X events […] So other day I was checking why my play key was not working and wanted to check if it maps to one of the X default mappings for the …
Get to your ebooks quickly
2018/11/12
We are using “rofi” here to show the menu. So, lets first install that cat <<EOF >/etc/yum.repos.d/_copr_yaroslav-i3desktop.repo [yaroslav-i3desktop] name=Copr repo for i3desktop owned by …
Monitor progress of coreutils commad like mv, cp etc
2018/04/02
Monitor progress of coreutils commad like mv, cp etc You can use command called “progress”. Other option is “pv” but that is little complicated so here is simpler option. […] Progress – A …
ssh – remove offending key.
2016/04/04
Whenever a system/server is re-installed or the host key changed for any reason, you would have seen the “host key verification failed”. And as usual you would have to go to known_hosts file and …
DNS – simple and effective guide with history
2016/02/15
Here is link to a very nice and definitive guide to DNS. Very detailed and useful. There is a pdf version as well to download 🙂 https://webhostinggeeks.com/guides/dns/ Thanks to Andrijana Nikolic for …