How many times has it happened to you that you are working on some linux platform (like Fedora/Ubuntu/CentOS etc) and suddenly you see that you need to remove some path from the PATH variable so that …

Use the last command&#8217;s output as input to a command without piping and bind to it to a key sequence in <a class="zem_slink" title="Bash (Unix shell)" …

tee to a file descriptor […] 1 $ tee >(cat &#8211; >&2) the tee command does fine with file names, but not so much with file descriptors, such as &2. This uses process …

For those of you who don&#8217;t know about ailurus: […] Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" …

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 …

Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" …

With the ever increasing cost of the Hardware, the amount of physical RAM available on the system is increasing day by day. For example, couple of years back, I had a system which was very high end …

Note: I am using this and definately this is a big improvement over the previous versions. Here is the blog from gnome blog: After more than a year of heavy development, <a class="zem_slink …

The Problem with Linux is that it is forthright, open and honest. Now I know how much the editors here hate when I anthropomorphize an operating system, but it is fundamentally true. Linux, in my …

cdargs is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bash" title="Bash" rel="homepage" href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html">bash shell cd with …

If you wanted to have colors in the bash output (including the colors in PS1-4), don&#8217;t you keep wondering how the color code would look on the terminal. So, I wrote this small script to show …