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cURL – Tutorial
2010/09/15
Here are linkw to two nice tutorials on curl and how to use curl to login before we try to fetch a page. Hope you find them useful. http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html …
Handy one-liners for SED
2010/09/14
Here are some links to sed one liners, pretty useful if you want to use the power of sed. <a …
Remove some path from the PATH variable temporarily.
2010/09/04
How many times has it happened to you that you are working on some linux platform (like Fedora/Ubuntu/CentOS etc) and suddenly you see that you need to remove some path from the PATH variable so that …
tee to a file descriptor
2010/08/13
tee to a file descriptor […] 1 $ tee >(cat – >&2) the tee command does fine with file names, but not so much with file descriptors, such as &2. This uses process …
Best Mobile Internet Browser (Opera Mini vs. SkyFire)
2010/08/07
Showdown: Best Mobile <a class="zem_slink" title="Internet" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet">Internet Browser (<a …
when you press f9 ‘paste’ is on , press f9 again and ‘paste’ is off, and so forth (works in insert-mode and command-mode)
2010/08/02
<a class="zem_slink" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.vim.org/">vim’s pastetoggle: when you press f9 …
Auto Key press fill forms through simulating key presses | Linux.com
2010/07/31
This script can be used to repeatedly press <a class="zem_slink" title="Electronic keyboard" rel="wikipedia" …
List of commands you use most often
2010/07/25
$ history | <a class="zem_slink" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print …
Bash Examples – Mistakes to Avoid
2010/07/23
A bash script is a text file containing a list of commands to be executed by the bash shell. A long time back, I had written a guide on Bash scripting which teaches you the basic syntax of bash …
Paste clipboard is bash or shell scripts with modification.
2010/07/20
Today I had a issue where I wanted to paste the clipboard to a shell script after removing the spaces. So, I went hunting for a way to do this. Finally I came up with this: […] sudo yum install …
Linux command to repeat a string n times - Super User
2010/07/20
I was working on something and needed to output the string n times. I have required this even to print a line with ’-’ or ’=’ but this time I badly wanted it in …
concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs
2010/07/15
$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001abd9" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" …