Color disk usage on Fedora

2012-01-21 1 min read Fedora
For this tip, you would need to setup the rpm-shere repository. You can get the information here. Once you have done that you need to install the cdu package with the following command: sudo yum install cdu And then you can use “cdu” to view the disk usage in all beautiful colors with the command: cdu and the output looks like this: [][2]cdu screenshot Related articles Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora. Continue reading

Interesting repository for Fedora.

2012-01-18 1 min read Fedora
Here is one repository that you can add to your Fedora to give it a few more hundred packages: cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/rpm-sphere.repo <<EOF [rpm-sphere] name=RPM Sphere baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/ gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/repodata/repomd.xml.key enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 EOF

conky script used to monitor server status remotely.

2012-01-12 2 min read bash Fedora
[][1]Image via Wikipedia I was looking for something to monitor few details on the server. I thought about quite a lot of applications, some open source and some scripts developed in house. But my requirements were quite petty and the scripts and applications were quite heavy. So, I thought why not conky :). So, with some quick work on conky script, I was able to get what I wanted and here it is for all of you. Continue reading

rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

2011-12-07 2 min read Fedora
Lets first install the rpmorphan package: 1 <td> <div class="bash codecolorer"> &nbsp;<span class="kw2">sudo</span> <span class="kw2">yum install</span> rpmorphan </div> </td> </tr> </table> and here is the description of the package: rpmorphan finds "orphaned"[1] packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation, and shows you a list of these packages. It intends to be clone of deborphan Debian tools for rpm packages. It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for example: Continue reading

quadkonsole – multiple consoles to make your life easier

2011-11-21 1 min read Fedora Linux
First lets install quadkonsole: yum install quadkonsole Now, to launch the quadkonsole, just type quadkonsole in the run box (appears with Alt+F2). You will by default see 4 console windows in single window but you can change that with command line options like so: quadkonsole --rows 4 --columns 4 This will initiate windows with 16 consoles. How cool is that. Related articles Console Lets You Work In Windows Command Line Mode With Style (makeuseof. Continue reading

Add ssh key to remote host

2011-11-15 3 min read bash Learning Linux Solaris
Image via Wikipedia If you are working on recent versions of the *nix OS like Fedora or Ubuntu then you would know about the commad ssh-copy-id. But if you land up using one of the older versions like Solaris or something where the command is not present, then probably you need a simpler solution to this. One of the simplest solution is with a lot of assumtions, simply copy the id_rsa file to remote server and hope it works. Continue reading

using `!#$’ to referance backward-word

2011-11-03 1 min read bash Linux
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 explanation: !# – means the current command (similar to !! being the last command) $ – represents the last parameter :s – is used for substitution. Related articles CommandLineFu: Amazing Collection Of Command Line Gems [Linux & Mac] (makeuseof.com) Oh, the Iron-y (ftalphaville.ft.com)
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