recursively add directory and files to cvs from Linux.

2010-04-12 1 min read Bash Fedora

Go to the directory which you want to add to cvs and execute the following:

cvs login

find . -type d -exec cvs add {} \;

find . -type f -exec cvs add {} \;

cvs commit

That was simple 🙂

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial – A Beginner\’s handbook

2010-04-11 0 min read Bash Learning Linux

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<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/unix_shell" title="Unix shell" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell">Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial – A Beginner’s handbook —

This book is for students and Linux System Administrators. It provides the skills to read, write, and debug <a title="Linux" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Linux">Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/shell_script" title="Shell script" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script">shell scripts using <a title="Bash" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Bash">bash <a title="Shell" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Shell">shell. The book begins by describing <a title="Linux" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Linux">Linux and simple scripts to automate frequently executed commands and continues by describing conditional logic, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/interactivity" title="Interactivity" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactivity">user interaction, loops, menus, traps, and functions. Finally, book covers various sys admin related scripts such as making a backup, using <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron jobs, writing interactive tools, web based tools, remote login, ftp and database backup related scripts. This book is intended for Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/system_administrator" title="System administrator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator">system administrators or students who have mastered the basics of a Linux Operating System. You should be able to:

Another nice utility for blogging from within firefox.

2010-04-11 1 min read Linux

Scribfire is another nice utility for blogging withing firefox. Nice features and quick and easy to configure and use ..

Advanced Sed Substitution Examples

2010-04-11 1 min read Bash Linux

This article is part of the on-going Unix Sed Tips and Tricks series. In our previous sed articles we learned — sed printing, sed deletion, sed substitute , sed file write, and sed multiple commands. In this article, let us review some interesting workarounds with the “s” substitute command in sed with several practical examples. I. […]

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Linux Links — collection of universe.. all links on everything about linux

2010-04-11 1 min read Fedora Firefox Linux

<a href="http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/">LoLL is a sourceforge project which maintains a well commented and categorized list of links on linux. This is a very nice list and has very nice links. Probably there is nothing that you will not find here which do not interest you. Definately worth a look.

Bugzilla Automation with perl — add, update or query any bug in Bugzilla using perl and www series modules for perl.

2010-04-11 3 min read Fedora Linux

Today I was trying to do some queries and see if I could create a new bug or update a existing bug in the Bugzilla. The one that I was trying to access was on version 2.0 and not on 3.0. This being the case, the XMLRPC interface was not working properly and to top it all, I was wanted to query quite a lot of bugs. So, I went out to evaluate how to avoid the manual work and get this done faster. Here’s some of my findings:

bash script to change vim colorscheme based on the available themes

2010-04-11 0 min read Fedora Vim Tips

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Here’s one script that you may find useful. A little variation or wrapper for this script can make your life colorful 🙂

You can write a wrapper to this to take one of the inputs randomly and then use it in alias to start <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vim" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim.