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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 …


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