Curl to exapnd short url
2022/01/09
Many times I receive short urls in mail and other places like chats and messages. I first like to see the destination before I click on the url. I was looking for some way to do this in bash. I …
Sleep infinitely in bash
2021/12/19
I am sure that you would have got a lot of instances where you have wanted to sleep for infinity and ended up doing this […] 1 2 3 4 while [[ 1 ]] do sleep 3600 done or some other such similar …
Ignore case when completing file names in bash
2021/12/11
Sometimes you don’t want to have the bash completion work with case completion. There could be several reasons like one I dont like is the default xdg folders starting with capital letters. So, …
CPENT/LPT Master Preparation Tips
2021/11/13
Cron script to send alert on low battery
2020/09/13
Warn when battery is low
2020/08/30
I am very lazy to look at battery status and want to be warned when the battery is low. This means that even if I am away from the laptop, I can be warned that laptop is about to poweroff due to …
Some good find alias.
2020/08/23
Here are some interesting alias’s that you may want to add to your bashrc file or where-ever else you add your aliase’s. Very useful if you use find commonly. There are four aliases …
Books menu with bash
2020/08/16
If you have a folder full of ebooks in various formats and not necessarily one sigle format and you want to have a quick menu to browse though your collection without requiring to open a File Manager …
Pygmentize to color code block
2020/08/05
Podman repositories on ubuntu like distros
2020/08/01
Recently I installed podman on ubuntu based dervative. I like podman a lot but to my distress I found that after installation, I was not able to search or run any containers. Found out that the …