Magic space on the current command line

2010-06-25 1 min read bash Fedora Linux
# For how to set up magic space for Bash see: # โ€“ http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/#slide15 # โ€“ http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1690 man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p &#8217;magic-space&#8217; man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p &#8217;Event Designators&#8217; man bash 2>/dev/null | less -p &#8217;\!#&#8217; # &#8221;The entire <a class="zem_slink" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">command line typed so far.&#8221; <a href="http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/10265">Read more :<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em;">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/trigger-wake-lan-mac-address/">How To Trigger Wake On LAN Using The MAC Address (makeuseof. Continue reading

Verify all the paths in the PATH directory

2010-06-08 1 min read bash Learning Linux
Here is the command to test that all the directories in your path actually exist. (<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/internal_field_separator" title="Internal field separator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_field_separator">IFS=:;for p in $PATH; do test -d $p || echo $p; done) And the explanation : Set the IFS to &#8221;:&#8221; now we loop through the PATH variable and test all the directories with &#8221;test -d&#8221; Here is another version without IFS: for i in ${PATH//:/ };do testย -d $i || echo $i;done Continue reading

PuTTY alternatives - AlternativeTo.net

2010-06-04 1 min read Learning Uncategorized
Sometimes after hours of searching you find a link so good that it needs no introductions and neither any writeup. I found one such page today : <a href="http://alternativeto.net/desktop/putty/">http://alternativeto.net/desktop/putty/<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/18/kitty-is-win32-native-putty/">KiTTY is Win32-native PuTTY (downloadsquad.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/04/11/putty-export-client-display-on-login-for-opening-x-application-and-terminal/">PuTTY export client display on login for opening X application and terminal. (amit-agarwal.co.in) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://colonelqubit.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/time-to-empty-my-pockets-for-foss-projects/">Time to empty my pockets for FOSS projects (colonelqubit.wordpress.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog. Continue reading

Google staff dropping Windows for Macs, Linux PCs

2010-06-02 1 min read Linux Uncategorized
For those who keep saying this is not the year of linux and probably it will never be ๐Ÿ™‚ Google staff dropping <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/microsoft_windows" title="Windows" rel="homepage" href="http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS">Windows for Macs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/personal_computer" title="Personal computer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer">PCs Google is abandoning the use of Windows by its staff as it\’s too much of a security threat, multiple staffers said Monday night. Recent concerns about
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