Working with FTP Directories.

2010-05-19 1 min read Linux

If you have to manage some ftp site, I can understand you pain in managing the site with FTP. Specially if you are managing a site where you need to edit the files. Without shelling out some decent amount of money you will not get decent editor which can help you edit the files directly over ftp. So today I spent my time looking for a good solution and UREKA I found it.

Solaris Tips and Tricks

2010-05-19 1 min read Solaris

Find a list of Tips and Tricks <a href="http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/solaris.html">here.

A nice trick to list the process which has opened a particular port is :

#!/bin/ksh

# 7-30-2003
# find from a port the pid that started the port

line=’————————————————————————-’
pids=`/usr/bin/ps -ef | sed 1d | awk '{print $2}’`

# Prompt users or use 1st cmdline argument
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
read ans?”Enter port you like to know pid for: ”
else
ans=$1
fi

bash script to change icon theme to check out all the installed themes (personal)

2010-05-19 2 min read Fedora GNOME Linux

I am really annoyed with the time that is required and the number of clicks that it takes to change the gnome icon theme. So here’s a small script that I wrote to quickly check out all the icon themes that I have in my ~/.icons folder.

#!/bin/bash
[[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && (
cd ~/.icons
cont=”y”
echo ”Select one of the icon themes”
echo ”When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c”
for i in *
do
[[ -d $i/cursors ]] || (
echo ”Now trying …. : $i”
gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme ”$i”
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme ”$2”
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Awk Introduction Tutorial – 7 Awk Print Examples

2010-05-19 0 min read Bash Fedora Linux

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awk examples

Awk Introduction Tutorial – 7 Awk Print Examples This is the first article on the new awk tutorial series. We’ll be posting several articles on awk in the upcoming weeks that will cover all features of awk with practical examples. In this article, let us review the fundamental awk working methodology along with 7 practical awk print examples. Note: Make sure you review our earlier […]

vim – get names of the scripts and the details from the command line

2010-05-19 1 min read Learning Linux Vim Tips

For the below commands either you can set the two variables in bold and then run the scripts or change the following in the commands and run the scripts.

If you have html2text installed then you can use this:

wget -o /dev/null -O $script_id_file ’http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=’$script_id |html2text

If you dont have html2text installed then you can use:

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Disk identification by UUID in Fedora.

2010-05-19 2 min read GNOME Linux

Yesterday I managed to delete my complete /usr directory and thus had to re-install my OS but I learned something new yesterday which I didn’t know earlier or actually never bothered to find out.br /br /All the partitions are mounted by udev using the UUID or label now. Finding the label of setting the label is easy but that was not the case with UUID (at least till you dont know how to do it). So finally I set my foot to search it. Heres some of the things that I found:br /br /bblkid/b – Gives you a list like below for all your partitions:br //dev/sda6: UUID=”8D8A-6CF1” TYPE=”vfat” LABEL=”Backup” br /So this is sufficient to modify your fstab to refer to the UUID or label instead of the drive. So whats the change in fstab. If the earlier entry looks likebr //dev/sdb6nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /media/Bkup3nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; vfatnbsp;nbsp;nbsp; uid=500,nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; 0 0br /then you can change this to :br /UUID=”8D8A-6CF1”nbsp;nbsp; /media/Bkup3nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; vfatnbsp;nbsp;nbsp; uid=500,nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; 0 0br /What is the benifit:br /———————br /When you re-format your Hard Disk there is a likely possibility that the dev name could well change and thus completely changing the mount points for all your fstab entries. This is really a pain if you have 10 or more partitions like the way I have. So if you use label or UUID then they never change and your mount points remain the same.br /br /Effective use: Use autofs package to automatically mount all your partitions. Autofs mounts the package at /media/LABEL, so before you hit to start your autofs label all your disks.br /br /Other ways to find the disk labels and UUID’s:br /ls /dev/disk/by-uuid –gt; simplest way. :)br /br /Will get back to this later with more details.br /br /

Auto Adjust Photo color and contrast in Windows, Mac and Linux.

2010-05-19 1 min read Photo

<a href="http://log69.com/aaphoto_en.html" target="_blank">Auto Adjust Photo is a tool that is very helpful if you are looking at quickly adjusting the photo. This tool does a good job of automatically doing color correction. Here is example:

There is definately a scope of improvement in the processed photo, but if you have a couple of hundred photo’s and you can get this effect in one liner then nothing like it. Here’s the one liner