You can use vim mappings to make some of your editor tasks very simple. Here I am giving you just a example, but you could always let your imagination run wild.
:nmap ,b Oj0c$**hP
And what do we do here.
O – Add a new line
– Go to normal mode
j – go to newly added line
0 – Go to begining of line
c$ – Change till end of line
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Very quick update, to use registers, you can select and then yank in a register to paste using the same register. This could be a convinient way to copy multiple selections and then paste which ever selection you want. Here is the simple way to do it:
visuallly select with v/V
then “qy to yank (here we are yanking into register q, so in the command you can use any of a-z to use as register)
Continue readingFor running mpd with different use, you may find necessary to change the SELinux context of your music directory. For this, you would need to run the below command:
chcon -R -t mpd_user_data_t Music/
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cgroups is a kernel feature and with userspace utilities, we can use the feature to control the cpu and memory for per process. So, lets first install the required tools.
sudo yum install libcgroup-tools
Now, we need to enable the service.
sudo systemctl enable cgconfig.service sudo systemctl enable cgred.service
cgconfig.service is to enable configuration for cgroups and
cgred.service is to enable configuration for cgroups for processes depending on the name.
Here are some more clients that you can use with mpd.
sudo yum install mpd mpc qmpdclient.x86_64 gmpc.x86_64 sonata.x86_64
mpd is ::
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for
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playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound
files (e.g., OGG, MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV) and can be controlled remotely via its
network protocol. It can be used as a desktop music player, but is also great
for streaming music to a stereo system over a local network. There are many
GUI and command-line applications to choose from that act as a front-end for
browsing and playing your MPD music collection.
Generally quite a lot of us would have used the script command. This generates the logs for the session. But the problem with the logs is that it contains a lot of un-readable characters. These characters are mostly from the color codes, and as such can be removed very easily with a single command:
cat typescript | perl -pe 's/e([^[]]|[.*.*?[a-zA-Z]|].*?a)//g' | col -b > typescript-processed
This assumes the input log file is named as typescript and the output is kept as typescript-processed. You can change the names as required.
Continue readingJust in case you need it, you can get the journalctl entries from systemd in the web page.
First install :
yum install systemd-journal-gateway
Once you have done this you can get the journal entries with wget as well with
wget http://localhost:19531/entries
or if you prefer, you can browse with a browser at http://localhost:19531/. It has a nice little interface for browsing the entries, nothing too fancy but just sufficient.
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