To create simple text tables to paste in emails or to use in any other document where you want to show a table, here is something that you can use. There is a perl module which provides “tablify“. And here is how to use it:
sudo yum install perl-Text-RecordParser
This will install a command “tablify” that you can use in number of ways. Here is a simple example to use it. You can read the man pages to see how you can use it.
Continue readingLots of times you want to convert tabs to spaces and sometimes from a shell script, if that is the case, then simple solution is “tidy“. First you need to install tidy as follows:
sudo yum install tidy
and then you can use the command tab2space.
tab2spcae
This will print the output to STDOUT by default which you can redirect if you want.
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To get your email working on your raspberry pi, First thing that you should probably do is to set up outgoing emails from your RPi. The easiest way to do so is with ssmtp.
Install ssmtp:
sudo apt-get install ssmtp
Next configure the ssmtp client to send emails using your ISP, open up the file /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file and make the changes as suggested below:
Continue readingIf you have a excel sheet with lot of formula’s and you are trying to audit them, then a simple solution is to press “ctrl+`” (i.e. control key with back tick). This will put the excel sheet in Formula auditing mode and hence all the cells will show the formula rather than the values which will make it easier to audit them. Hope that helps.
If you already have some mail in your maildir and you have set procmail filters, then it is difficult to apply the procmail filter, right? Not so, you just need to go to the Inbox directory and then execute the command.
for i in *; do cat $i|procmail; rm -f "$i"; done
This will pass all of your e-mail through procmail again and then your filters will get applied. Mails will go to their appropriate directory and you will be one happy man, I hope.
Continue readingIf you quickly need to note something and you do not want to leave your browser then just add a bookmark to :
data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
and whenever you need to get the notepad, just open this bookmark. Sorry, I do not remember, where I got this from, but this is something that I did not discover but since I do not remember where I got this from, I am not able to credit the authour.
Continue readingIf you have got this question in your mind, then you are in right place.
vim -V20 2>&1 |tee
You can give the debugfile as any file, where you would want to log the debug messages. This will log a lot of information in the debugfile, you can open the file, once you have got the error in the main vim window. After this, you can open the debugfile and simply search for the error that you were getting. Just look for the reason why this error is originated in the debug logs and then it should be pretty simple to fix that.
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