Backup of files in the directory.

2011-12-01 2 min read Bash Learning Linux

I was working on some scripts and the changes that I was making in the scripts was very dynamic, which I did want to keep backing up in the version control system. But for the peace of my mind, I wanted to keep a copy of the scripts, whenever it was in working state.

Since I had multiple files, so it would make more sense to have a script that could copy all the files in the current directory to “old” directory without over-writing the existing files. So, I wrote a script that would postfix the files with a number. With this approach, finally what I had was the following:

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Creating a chroot environment in Fedora with bash and other utils.

2011-09-19 2 min read Bash Fedora Learning Linux

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I am testing some of my scripts to work on a very old system and there the versions of the most popular applications are very old, real old :(. So, some of things that I am very used to since last couple of years, do not seem to work as expected and I need to keep verifying a lot of things on the server, very inconvinient to keep testing the script on the server (need to connect on VPN) just to test some very simple things.

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bash completion

2011-08-09 2 min read Bash Fedora Linux

I was working on some functions in bash to make my life easier and realized that if I added custom completion to my functions, it will be really good. So I headed over to google and searched for what I wanted. I did get a lot of information on bash completion but not a single concrete example that could help me do what I wanted. So, with the help of man pages and some results from the Google pages, I was finally able to accomplish what I wanted. So here it is:

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cd across parallel directories

2011-03-14 1 min read Bash Linux

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Here is a simple and fast way to cd across parallel directory.

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