rpmsave and rpmnew files.
2010/06/25
When upgrading an rpm based Linux System, all of us would have seen ”*.rpmsave” or ”*rpmnew” files being created. These are the config files in the rpm that rpm …
bash one liner to change/remove test pattern from config file or text file.
2010/06/25
Problem: I had a directory with a lot of config files in the ini file format, i.e. name and value separated by equals. Some/all of these contained some directory names and other values which had to be …
Visualizing system performance data
2010/06/25
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category […] $ vmstat 2 10 | awk 'NR > 2 {print NR, $13}' | gnuplot -e “set terminal png;set …
Using PHP to search a MySQL database and return paged results
2010/06/25
<a href="http://www.designplace.org/scripts.php?page=1amp;c_id=25">Using PHP to search a MySQL database and return paged results Link above to the article. I am using this as base to …
How to Create Mystery in Your Photos
2010/06/25
Large format photographer David Ward explores how to create one of the essential ingredients of his photography – mystery. <a …
Viewing archive without extracting.
2010/06/25
I was looking for this option and searched the net to find quite some utilities to do this. […] And a nice article on this this is <a …
Change the look and feel of Fedora with emrald, change to openbox, fvwm, emerald, metacity or openbox
2010/06/25
I have been looking for this information for quite sometime now. Did not quite find this information in the net. Finally looked through some of the packages in the repository and found the one that I …
wordpress Fedora 11 desktop client.
2010/06/25
Another wordpress client on Fedora for wordpress. Simple and easy to configure and use. Here’s how it looks. […] sudo yum install lekhonee […] <a …
Twiiter from Pidgin on Fedora 11 -Leonidas
2010/06/25
If you are twitter fan but find it difficult to follow it on your web-browser then this is for you. Just install the plugin and get going to see the twitter messages in the pidgin window. […] …
Quick one liner bash function to navigate parent directories quickly
2010/06/25
up () { for i in $(seq 1 $1) ; do cd ..; pushd +1 ; done; } — if you like the popd and pushd way .. up () { for i in $(seq 1 $1) ; do cd ..; done; } — otherwise .. <div …
find duplicate entry in a list in bash with sed
2010/06/25
Here I will take an example of rss2email list, but I guess I will be able to pass on the concept. Here is example of the output of the r2e list command: […] 1: …
A Unix/Linux cheatsheet complete in most respects.
2010/06/25
Find <a href="http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml" target="_blank">here. This is a very nice tutorial all in one page and browsable. It covers : […] 1. System 2. Processes …