Find all the missing paths in the PATH variable in bash script
2011/01/20
Here is a simple script that will list out all the paths in the PATH variable that do not exist.
Linux humour – tar is coward
2011/01/18
Some errors are too good and though you would have seen them couple of times you don’t realize until sometimes it just hits you, like the one below: […] tar: Cowardly refusing to create an …
bash 4.0 – new feature mapfile
2011/01/14
Recently I encountered a problem where I had to create couple of arrays in bash and these were quite dynamic in nature. This script was supposed to be used by couple of guys whom I did not trust too …
perl is faster than bash in some cases.
2011/01/11
Some days back, I had to generate some data to be uploaded to a database. As usual I assumed that bash should be faster and hence wrote the script to create the files in bash. But I found that even …
New feature in Nautilus – resize icon on desktop.
2011/01/10
On Desktop on Gnome using nautilus, now you can resize individual icons. Just right click on the icon to resize and in the menu you will get a resize icon : […] and then you can resize the icon …
Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM
2011/01/08
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Shell Scripting
2011/01/05
Here are some links for bash programming that you may find useful. http://tips-linux.net/en/content/pro-bash-programming http://tips-linux.net/en/content/expert-shell-scripting …
Ultralight DIY distribution
2011/01/02
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Happy New Yeat to all.
2011/01/01
New Year wishes to all…
Execute a command with a timeout
2010/12/29
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write the output of a command to /var/log/user.log… each line will contain $USER, making this easy to grep for.
2010/12/28
write the output of a command to /var/log/user.log… each line will contain $USER, making this easy to grep for. […] <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> log() { …
Empty a file
2010/12/26
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