Know when you will type :q in your term instead of vi(m), the alias will chewed you out.

2009-12-20 1 min read Bash Vim Tips

most simple solution is to alias :q like so:
alias :q=`echo ”This is not vim”`

but as someone suggested in commandlinefu, you can use tput to put some color and fun into this.
alias :q=’tput setaf 1; echo >&2 ”this is NOT vi(m) :/”; tput sgr0’

Display a block of text with delineated by a start pattern and an end pattern

2009-12-18 1 min read Bash

Taken idea from commandlinefu.com

The command will display a segment from the file from the start pattern to the end pattern.

function viewsegment() { tail -n +`fgrep -n -m 1 “$1” $3 | head -`fgrep -n -m 1 “$2” $3 }
Display a block of text with delineated by a start pattern and an end pattern

View the newest xkcd comic.

2009-12-07 1 min read Bash Linux

This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic.

$ xkcd(){ local f=$(curl -s <a href="http://xkcd.com/">http://xkcd.com/);display $(echo "$f"|grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^"]+(png|jpg)');echo "$f"|awk '/<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/.?" title=./{gsub(/^.title=.|".?$/,"");print}';}

To get a random xkcd comic, I also use the following:

xkcdrandom(){ local f=$(wget -q <a href="http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/">http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/ -O -);display $(echo "$f"|grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^"]+(png|jpg)');echo "$f"|awk '/<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/.?" title=./{gsub(/^.title=.|".?$/,"");print}';}

Insert a comment on command line for reminder

2009-12-05 1 min read Bash Linux

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Insert a comment on command line for reminder

$ ls -alh #mycomment

Comments can be used directly on the command line so I can save in the history a brief description of what command does.

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bash colors

2009-11-16 0 min read Bash

$\"People$: Image via Wikipedia

For those of the terminal freaks, color is a bliss. But have you tried all the colors in the terminal. Today someone forwarded me a bash one liner for the same. Not sure where he got this from, anyway here is the one liner for you all:

Get your external IP address

2009-11-04 1 min read Bash Linux

$ echo -e "GET /automation/n09230945.asp HTTP/1.0rnHost: whatismyip.comrn" | nc whatismyip.com 80 | tail -n1

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Stop long commands wrapping around and over-writing itself in the Bash shell

2009-10-12 1 min read Bash

Stop long commands wrapping around and over-writing itself in the Bash shell

shopt -s checkwinsize

add the command either in /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile so that this is available to your shell.

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