Tools
inotify -watch for file to change
2014/01/28
Here is a simple command for you. It uses inotify tools. So first you need to install : sudo yum install inotify-tools and then you can try something like this: while true; do inotifywait -r -e modify …
cvs add files recursively – not already in repository
2013/11/12
When you have a lot of files in some repository and you have added a couple of new, in CVS there is no command to add just the new ones to the repository, so here is a workaround for that. cvs status …
meld – cvs diff with ease
2012/10/17
There are couple of ways to make life easier with CVS diff. But here is one that is really good. First if you haven’t, install meld: sudo yum install meld meld is basically a diff viewer and pretty …
Ignore CVS and svn directories in bash autocompletion.
2012/07/07
CVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂
xmlwf – Is your xml document well formed?
2012/02/18
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 …
Faster blog with stats removed
2011/06/18
I was thinking of removing the statpress plugin for quite some time now, but did not have a good alternative. Today finally I managed to do this as I had few hours to spare. Now that this is done, you …
Total upload and download on any interface.
2011/06/05
Something that I have been searching for a long time, finally some look inside the <a class=“zem_slink” title=“Procfs” rel=“wikipedia” …
CR Post to Ping.fm not working – resolved.
2011/06/02
Last couple of months I was having a tough time getting the plugins in my wordpress to work with the ping.fm service. This is the only service that I rely on to post my blogs. So, basically I was left …
using wordpress CLI to post to wordpress
2011/03/24
There is a very nice post here: How to post content to a WordPress blog from the command line I tried this in Fedora 14 and here is the way to get this working in Fedora […] <td> <div …
Performance issues resolved with my blog.
2010/10/01
For last 2-3 weeks there were quite a lot of performance issues with my website. I was looking at the same but could not get enough time to have all of them resolved together. Finally I have spent …
Using SQLite to maintain your monthly bills.
2010/08/24
I was looking for a small application to maintain my every month bills. The application had to be small and script-able. I basically wanted to keep track of the bills that have been generated and …
SQLite – simple use in scripts
2010/08/21
Today we will look a the most simple use’s in the scripts and how to use them. […] echo ”insert into bills values (”$name”,$date_now, …