Linux
Fedora 11 delayed by one more week.
2009/10/27
Not new to Fedora schedules, I guess. Has happened in past and happened again, Fedora release is slipped second time to 2009-06-09
Vi/VIM and Unix/Linux cheatsheets.
2009/10/26
I found quite a lot of good information today morning. Some really good info on vi/vim. I liked the this one:”Also, you don’t have to use the / command as a separator. Anything …
First traceback
2009/10/25
<a href="http://www.bin-co.com/blog/2008/10/blogging-tradition-subscription-notification/trackback/">Binny V A recently quoted my blog in this posting. Since this is the first …
rebuild rpm from installed rpm with rpmrebuild
2009/10/22
Ever happened to you that you downloaded and installed a rpm and then deleted the package? If your answer is yes, then there is a solution. Come to the fairyland of rpmrebuild. Create the rpm from the …
stop indentation on current file in vim to keep the indentation from copied text.
2009/10/22
I have been looking for this for quite some time. Finally found two easy ways to do it: […] :setlocal noautoindent :setlocal nocindent :setlocal nosmartindent :setlocal indentexpr= […] …
Adding dates to your photos.
2009/10/12
#!/usr/bin/perl if ($#ARGV < 0 ) { print ”$#ARGV \n”; print ”Usage $ARGV[0] filename/dir\n”; exit -1; } @files = `find ”$ARGV[0]” -iname …
Using column to format a directory listing
2009/10/09
<span style="color: #000000;">Using column to format a directory listing <span style="color: #000000;">$ (printf "PERMISSIONS LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY …
On screen display of a command
2009/10/08
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category delay: 2d On screen display of a command. $ date|osd_cat This is very useful if you need to show someone …
root shell auditing and syslog entry for all commands of shell
2009/10/08
A lot of times there is a need to log all the messages and the output of the shell to the file or syslog. Sometimes I need that for some user too. script command can be used to do this but then …
Get list of git repositories from command line.
2009/10/04
Earlier I had posted a small blog on teamgit. The problem still is that you have to manually go to the git.kernel.org page and get the list of the repo’s that you can download. How about a …
Play video in Fedora.
2009/10/03
Found <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28153">here.<div class="smallfont"> How to multimedia xmms, rythmbox, mplayer, video, etc. <hr …
Change user, assume environment, stay in current dir
2009/10/03
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category Change user, assume environment, stay in current dir $ su — user I’ve used this a number of …