convert tabs to spaces, the easy way

2013-07-08 1 min read Bash Fedora

Lots of times you want to convert tabs to spaces and sometimes from a shell script, if that is the case, then simple solution is “tidy“. First you need to install tidy as follows:

sudo yum install tidy

and then you can use the command tab2space.

tab2spcae

This will print the output to STDOUT by default which you can redirect if you want.

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ssmtp configuration and installation – raspberry pi.

2013-06-04 2 min read Raspberry Pi
English: Extract from Raspberry Pi board at Tr...
English: Extract from Raspberry Pi board at TransferSummit 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To get your email working on your raspberry pi, First thing that you should probably do is to set up outgoing emails from your RPi. The easiest way to do so is with ssmtp.

Install ssmtp:

sudo apt-get install ssmtp

Next configure the ssmtp client to send emails using your ISP, open up the file /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file and make the changes as suggested below:

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LibreOffice – Formulae Auditing

2013-05-30 1 min read Learning Linux

If you have a excel sheet with lot of formula’s and you are trying to audit them, then a simple solution is to press “ctrl+`” (i.e. control key with back tick). This will put the excel sheet in Formula auditing mode and hence all the cells will show the formula rather than the values which will make it easier to audit them. Hope that helps.

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procmail filters – apply to received mails.

2013-05-24 1 min read Linux

If you already have some mail in your maildir and you have set procmail filters, then it is difficult to apply the procmail filter, right? Not so, you just need to go to the Inbox directory and then execute the command.

for i in *; do cat $i|procmail; rm -f "$i"; done

This will pass all of your e-mail through procmail again and then your filters will get applied. Mails will go to their appropriate directory and you will be one happy man, I hope.

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quick notepad in firefox.

2013-05-20 1 min read Firefox

If you quickly need to note something and you do not want to leave your browser then just add a bookmark to :

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

and whenever you need to get the notepad, just open this bookmark. Sorry, I do not remember, where I got this from, but this is something that I did not discover but since I do not remember where I got this from, I am not able to credit the authour.

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Vim – Why and where am I getting these errors from?

2013-05-15 1 min read Vim Tips

If you have got this question in your mind, then you are in right place.

vim -V20  2>&1 |tee

You can give the debugfile as any file, where you would want to log the debug messages. This will log a lot of information in the debugfile, you can open the file, once you have got the error in the main vim window. After this, you can open the debugfile and simply search for the error that you were getting. Just look for the reason why this error is originated in the debug logs and then it should be pretty simple to fix that.

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Fedora – Ramdisk creation

2013-05-10 1 min read Fedora

In Fedora, ramdisks are not created by default as is the case with RHEL. So, if you need to get Ramdisks on Fedora, then you can do this:

sudo yum install MAKEDEV

This will create some default Ramdisk’s in the “/dev” directory. Now, if you need to change anything then feel free to go to “/etc/makedev.d” and feel free to change these files.

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