cream bash ide – vim with bash support

2012-03-14 1 min read Fedora Linux Uncategorized
Image via Wikipedia Here you can find the cream editor. This is basically vim editor with lots of customizations thus making it simpler for the users to use the editor directly. This version already has the bash and perl support plugins and thus you can start using them as IDE without the need to add any plugins. It has a simple and advanced mode. In the simple mode you need not worry about all the modes of the vi/vim editor. Continue reading

Backup of files in the directory.

2011-12-01 2 min read bash Learning Linux
I was working on some scripts and the changes that I was making in the scripts was very dynamic, which I did want to keep backing up in the version control system. But for the peace of my mind, I wanted to keep a copy of the scripts, whenever it was in working state. Since I had multiple files, so it would make more sense to have a script that could copy all the files in the current directory to “old” directory without over-writing the existing files. Continue reading

what is vim in 6Kb..

2011-03-16 1 min read Learning Linux Vim Tips
If you thought that vim is very bloated and nothing abuot this editor can be small, then you are not alone. I was myself in the same bandwagon. Well, I never thought that there could be anything about vim that can be explained in Kb’s, lest alone the complete vim features. But looks like vim.org had thought about this and thus came up with this. And here is the direct link to the vim in 6kb in English. Continue reading

All in one solution for all the scripts of vim from vim.org

2011-03-09 9 min read bash Fedora Learning Linux Vim Tips
For quite sometime now, I was looking for some console based program which would help me get the scripts from vim.org. A simple solution would have been to do a wget for the scripts. But since there are so many scripts coming up daily and with a need to search based on script ID and name of the script, I thought better to write a script that can do all of those things. Continue reading

Browser Conkeror – fast, versatile, easy and configurable

2010-10-20 2 min read Linux
Conkeror is a browser that uses XULRunner and is a highly configurable and programmable browser. Here is the description of the browser from the homepage: Conkeror is a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by exceptional software such as Emacs and vi. Conkeror features a sophisticated keyboard system, allowing users to run commands and interact with content in powerful and novel ways. Continue reading

Linux command to repeat a string n times - Super User

2010-07-20 1 min read bash Linux
I was working on something and needed to output the string n times. I have required this even to print a line with &#8217;-&#8217; or &#8217;=&#8217; but this time I badly wanted it in bash. So I searched google and found this: printf &#8221;Amit Agarwal%.0s&#8221; {1..5} Explanations and other examples: <a href="http://superuser.com/questions/86340/linux-command-to-repeat-a-string-n-times">http://superuser.com/questions/86340/linux-command-to-repeat-a-string-n-times<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.rateitall.com/i-3177235-flat-rate-us-terminations.aspx">1 reviews of Flat-Rate US Terminations (rateitall.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www. Continue reading