File Management

        inotify -watch for file to change
        
       2014/01/28 
        
      Here is a simple command for you. It uses inotify tools. So first you need to install :
sudo yum install inotify-tools and then you can try something like this:
while true; do inotifywait -r -e modify …
      
        Delete all but some directories
        
       2013/08/16 
        
      I think, like me, you would have faced a lot of situations, where you wanted to delete all the files or directories in a location, leaving only the required files/directories. So, I have a directory …
      
        cksum – compare for multiple files.
        
       2013/04/30 
        
      If you have to compare cksum for couple of files, the you know how cumbersome it is. So, I wrote a simple script, wherein you can create a file called cksums in the current directory and copy paste …

        duff – find duplicate files.
        
       2013/03/19 
        
      duff – description:
[…] Description : Duff is a command-line utility for quickly finding d
[…] uplicates in a
given set of files
[…] and now time to execute :
find . -type f …
      
        vim mappings for multiple files.
        
       2012/08/06 
        
      If you open multiple files in vim with command line option. Then the only way to move between the files is “:n” and “:N”. There is a easier way to do this. Just add mappings for this in vimrc. Here is …
      
        rpmconf – Tool to handle rpmsave and rpmnew files
        
       2012/06/18 
        
      Install the utility:
sudo yum install rpmconf Description:
[…] And finally run the utility:
sudo rpmconf -a and if there is a conflict or rpmsave or rpmnew file, then you will see something …

        symlinks -delete all invalid soft links in Linux/Fedora
        
       2012/06/12 
        
      First of all, install symlinks if it is not installed :
sudo yum install symlinks and here is the description:
[…] and the help for the same:
[…] symlinks: scan/change symbolic links – …
      
        Backup of files in the directory.
        
       2011/12/01 
        
      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 …
      
        Compare files excluding certain lines.
        
       2011/10/18 
        
      Quick tip, you can use any expression for the sed commands in the (). With this trick you can redirect the stdout of 2 commands to the diff command. This might become very useful, if you want to …

        Get yourself some conkyrc files.
        
       2011/10/05 
        
      If you are looking for some nice conkyrc files, then you can head over to :
Ubuntu Forums
In this thread you can see some very nice conkyrc files with screenshots. You can browse through the thread …
      
        some interesting alias
        
       2011/09/27 
        
      For this time, I will just give you a link to to bashrc file.
http://hayne.net/MacDev/Bash/aliases.bash
Head over there and see some very interesting aliase’s.

        Empty a file
        
       2010/12/26 
        
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