Magic space on the current command line

2010-06-25 1 min read bash Fedora Linux

# For how to set up magic space for Bash see: # – http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/#slide15 # – http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1690 man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p ’magic-space’ man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p ’Event Designators’ man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p ’\!#’ # ”The entire <a class="zem_slink" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">command line typed so far.” <a href="http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/10265">Read more :<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em;">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/trigger-wake-lan-mac-address/">How To Trigger Wake On LAN Using The MAC Address (makeuseof. Continue reading

wmctrl – window control manager

2010-06-16 0 min read Fedora Linux

Verify all the paths in the PATH directory

2010-06-08 1 min read bash Learning Linux

Here is the command to test that all the directories in your path actually exist. (<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internal_field_separator" title="Internal field separator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_field_separator">IFS=:;for p in $PATH; do test -d $p || echo $p; done) And the explanation : Set the IFS to ”:” now we loop through the PATH variable and test all the directories with ”test -d” Here is another version without IFS: for i in ${PATH//:/ };do test -d $i || echo $i;done Continue reading

command not found – packagekit plugin

2010-05-27 0 min read Fedora Linux

Find out why a program can't seem to access to a file

2010-05-05 2 min read Fedora Linux

$ strace php tias.php -e open,access 2>&1 | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia">grep foo.txt Sometimes a program refuses to read a file and you’re not sure why. You may have display_errors turned off for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/php" href="http://www.php.net/" title="PHP" rel="homepage">PHP or something. In this example, fopen(’/var/www/test/foo.txt’) was called but doesn’t have read access to foo.txt. Strace can tell you what went wrong. E.g., if php doesn’t have read access to the file, strace will say ”EACCESS (Permission denied)”. Continue reading

vim understanding the various modes and using the yanking more efficiently.

2010-04-06 0 min read Linux Vim Tips

whohas

2010-01-16 0 min read Linux

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