concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

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$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gzip" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; -or -name 'access.log' -exec cat {} ; This command allows you to stream your log files, including gziped files, into one stream which can be piped to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk or some other command for analysis.

Note: if your version of &#8217;find&#8217; supports it, use:

Scribblenauts

<a href="http://xkcd.com/637/"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/imgs.xkcd.com/comics/scribblenauts.png" alt="Let me look away and type 'guy who's just jealous that I beat all his MarioKart times' and turn back, and … yup, there you are again!" />

regular expression, sed and grep tuturials and tricks.

Simply a great one page article on sed and use of regular expressions.

<a href="http://almirkaric.com/2009/07/15/sed-and-grep-tips/" target="_blank">http://almirkaric.com/2009/07/15/sed-and-grep-tips/

Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents

Using tput to save, clear and restore the terminal contents $ tput smcup; echo &#8221;Doing some things…&#8221;; sleep 2; tput rmcup Very useful for interactive scripts where you would like to return the terminal contents to its original state before the script was run. This would be similar to how vi exits and returns you to your original terminal screen.

Save and clear the terminal contents with:

tput smcup

Change pidgin status from the command line

$ purple-remote "setstatus?status=away&message=AFK" Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn&#8217;t aware of purple-remote existence.

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Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages

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Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages Tech Source From Bohol: &#8221;Most of these languages are graphics-based that makes them fun and attractive for young ones or even for adults who are absolute beginner in programming. So enjoy and teach your kids programming with these free programming languages.&#8221;

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wmctrl – window control manager

What is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wmctrl" title="Wmctrl" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmctrl">wmctrl?

wmctrl  is  a  command that can be used to interact with an X Window manager that is compatible with the EWMH/NetWM specification.  wmctrl can query the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/window_manager" title="Window manager" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager">window manager for information, and it can request that certain window management actions be taken.