colors in bash -- script to display all the possible colors.

2010-06-06 3 min read Bash Fedora Linux

If you wanted to have colors in the bash output (including the colors in PS1-4), don’t you keep wondering how the color code would look on the terminal. So, I wrote this small script to show the complete color codes. This is how the output would look:

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And here is the script:

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      #!/bin/bash -<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;FILE: &nbsp;colors.sh<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; USAGE: &nbsp;./colors.sh<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; DESCRIPTION: &nbsp;Bash colors<br /> #<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; OPTIONS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp;REQUIREMENTS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;BUGS: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; NOTES: &nbsp;---<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;AUTHOR: &nbsp;Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; COMPANY: &nbsp;Individual<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; VERSION: &nbsp;1.0<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; CREATED: &nbsp;09/21/2009 06:12:07 PM IST<br /> # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;REVISION: &nbsp;---<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> <br /> for c in `seq 0 255`;<br /> do<br /> t=5;<br /> [[ $c -lt 108 ]]&&t=0;<br /> for i in `seq $t 5`;<br /> do<br /> #Display the codes also for easier lookup in terminal<br /> <!--loginview start-->echo $i;${c}<!--loginview end--><br /> echo -e "<a class="zem_slink" title="Path (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29">\\</a>\e[0;48;$i;${c}m|| $i:$c `seq -s+0 $(($COLUMNS/2))|tr -d \'[0-9]\'`\\e[0m";<br /> done;<br /> done<br /> <br /> # setup_colors - Adds colors to array CC for global use<br /> # 30 - Black, 31 - Red, 32 - Green, 33 - Yellow, 34 - Blue,<br /> # 35 - Magenta, 36 - Blue/Green, 37 - White,<br /> # 30/42 - Black on Green \'30\\;42\'<br /> <!--loginview start-->function setup_colors(){<br /> declare -a CC;<br /> for i in `seq 0 7`;<br /> do<br /> ii=$(($i+7));<br /> CC[$i]="\\033[1;3${i}m";<br /> CC[$ii]="\\033[0;3${i}m";<br /> done;<br /> CC[15]="\\033[30;42m";<br /> R=$\'\\033[0;00m\';<br /> X=$\'\\033[1;37m\';<br /> export R X;<br /> }<br /> function display_colors(){<br /> for i in $(seq 0 $((${#CC[@]} - 1))); do echo -e "${CC[$i]}[$i]\\n$R"; done<br /> }
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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 :

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let a cow tell you your fortune

2010-06-03 1 min read Bash Linux
Here\’s something that I saw on commandlinefu yesterday. That sent me thinking about some command to have the cow file picked randomly 🙂 So, here\’s the original command from the commandlinefu:

let a cow tell you your fortune

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        $ fortune | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cowsay" title="Cowsay" rel="homepage" href="http://www.nog.net/%7Etony/warez/cowsay.shtml">cowsay</a> -f tux
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Logwatch for Linux Systems.

2010-06-02 2 min read Fedora Linux

On my personal <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/client" title="Client (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29">desktop at home, I like to see the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/statistics" title="Statistics" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics">statistics at least once a day, for what was installed, what was run with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sudo" title="Sudo" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sudo.ws/">sudo and other such details like <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/kernel" title="Kernel (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computing%29">kernel errors.

Running this monotonously every day is quite boring, so comes to rescue is logwatch. I have <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/installation" title="Installation (computer programs)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_%28computer_programs%29">installation so I will talk about the location with respect to that so for your distribution it might be a little different.

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Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.

2010-05-27 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux Uncategorized

If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down).

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================

#          FILE:  checklinks.sh

#         USAGE:  ./checklinks.sh

#   DESCRIPTION:  Check if the links exists on affiliate sites

#       OPTIONS:  —
#  REQUIREMENTS:  —
#          BUGS:  —
#         NOTES:  —
#        AUTHOR:  <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in">Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
#       COMPANY:  Individual
#       VERSION:  1.0
#       CREATED:  04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST
#      REVISION:  —
#===============================================================================

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Inotify Example - Introduction to Inotify with a C Program Example

2010-05-24 1 min read C Programs Learning Linux

<a href="http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/04/inotify-c-program-example/">Inotify Example: Introduction to Inotify with a C Program Example:

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/inotify" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify" title="Inotify" rel="wikipedia">inotify utility is an effective tool to monitor and notify <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/file_system" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system" title="File system" rel="wikipedia">filesystem changes. You can specify a list of files and directories that needs to be monitored by inotify. This <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000023d0f" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library" title="Library" rel="wikipedia">library is used by various other programs. For example, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cpan" href="http://www.cpan.org/" title="CPAN" rel="homepage">CPAN module Linux::Inotify is developed based on this library.
iNotify Execution Flow

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Startup animation and theme for Fedora 12 onwards.

2010-05-20 1 min read Fedora Learning Linux

Since the release of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12, fedora is using plymouth. Plymouth kicks in just after grub and before the Xserver starts.

Description:

Plymouth provides an attractive graphical <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bootsplash" title="Bootsplash" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsplash">boot animation in
place of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/text_messaging" title="Text messaging" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging">text messages that normally get shown.  Text
messages are instead redirected to a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/data_logger" title="Data logger" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_logger">log file for viewing
after boot.

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