Stats for blog.amit-agarwal.co.in

Last couple of weeks/months has been a very good time for my blog. The subscribers have increased, the visits have increased. My blog is visited more and more from the search results. My alexa ranking has come down drastically. Thanks to all my readers, subscribers and followers.

Here are some of the stats from the last 2 weeks:

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How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog

A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps.

In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003ac3a" title="Technology" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/industry/Technology">technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000000141ab" title="Education" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education">education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a few years it reached a critical point beyond which I really couldn’t get the traffic to grow. The site was frankly far too general to appeal to a specific community.

Determine what process is listening on a port on Solaris, without lsof

$ for x in `ptree | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{print $1}&#8217;`; do pfiles $x | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep">grep ${PORT} > /dev/null 2>&1; if [ x&#8221;$?&#8221; == &#8221;x0&#8221; ]; then ps -ef | grep $x | grep -v grep; fi; done 2> /dev/null

The best in command line xml: XMLStarlet

<a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/the-best-in-command-line-xml-xmlstarlet.html">Quite some time ago I wrote about using xsltproc to process xml on the command line. Thank fully someone pointed out XMLStarlet.? I now use XMLStarlet almost every day.? I work with a variety of REST based API&#8217;s gather information. XMLStartlet along with a simple for loop or xargs gives …

If you are on fedora then you can use xmlstarlet in the following way. First install the package:

Verify all the paths in the PATH directory

Here is the command to test that all the directories in your path actually exist.

(<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internal_field_separator" title="Internal field separator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_field_separator">IFS=:;for p in $PATH; do test -d $p || echo $p; done)

And the explanation :

Set the IFS to &#8221;:&#8221;

now we loop through the PATH variable

and test all the directories with &#8221;test -d&#8221;

Here is another version without IFS:

for i in ${PATH//:/ };do test  -d $i || echo $i;done

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bash completion not working on Fedora

I had bash completion installed and after that I had made huge changes to my bashrc and also installed bashstyle. After this the bash-completion stopped working.

I had to spend a lot of time to figure out that the easiest solution was to source the bash-completion again in the end. 🙂

. /etc/bash_completion

Play media files in fedora.

Found <a href="http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100206">here .<div class="smallfont">

Media (DVD, web content, video & audio) playback in Fedora