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pkgwat -search packages for Fedora.

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:52:44 +0000

pkgwat is a nice utility to search the fedora packages websearch.

Description : Pronounced "package WAT", pkgwat is a fast CLI tool for querying
: the fedora packages webapp.
: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/
:
: You can make its search even better by helping us tag packages.
: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger

And to search for a package, you can use ::

pkgwat search 
pkgwat -h # get help on package.

Your own local search engine.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:31:17 +0000

There are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution.

You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions.

download omega from http:// xapian.org/download

yum install xapian libuuid-devel

And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the instructions.

Federated Search Engine Diagram (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Create index using command omindex
and then you can use quest or search.py to search or you can setup the cgi way so that you can use local browser to search.

Google gravity for fun

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:14:20 +0000

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1) Write ‘Google Gravity‘ in Google search box,press enter. 2) Click on the 1st result that appears i.e. Google Gravity. 3) Wait 2 seconds. Something cool will happen. 4) Play with it for a while. 5) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter. 6) Wait and see. Something even cooler will happen 🙂 Awesome !!!..

Google Gravity (mgitecetech.wordpress.com)
Google Sphere (mgitecetech.wordpress.com)
Does anyone enjoy a practical joke? (birthnavigators.wordpress.com)

Another nice and feature rich alternative to Google Search

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:54:08 +0000

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Some time back I had written a post on Scroogle. Scroogle is good, it provides privacy. But if you want more for your browsing experience, something that you thought was always missing in a lot of search engines, then there’s a better search engine and it is DuckDuckGo.

Empty a file

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:56:13 +0000

This one is for those who know the “touch” command. Hope all of us do not follow a command just because it is on one of the popular site without trying to understand the command and the output.

Determine what process is listening on a port on Solaris, without lsof

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:13:37 +0000

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$ for x in `ptree | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk '{print $1}’`; do pfiles $x | <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/grep" title="Grep" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep">grep ${PORT} > /dev/null 2>&1; if [ x”$?” == ”x0” ]; then ps -ef | grep $x | grep -v grep; fi; done 2> /dev/null

more powerful grep – ack

Wed, 26 May 2010 11:41:56 +0000

For last couple of days, I have been using ack instead of grep. Here is description of ack:

Ack is designed as a replacement for grep.

There are couple of reasons I am using ack. First and foremost being it does not require a filename. So, for seaching amit in all files recursively under the current directory I can simply use

ack amit

More reasons to use ack:

It supports pager option and there can be a rc file that can be used to define the default options that needs to be used with ack. Here is the contents of my $HOME/.ackrc file.

Mirror or download a website with a tool much better than wget

Wed, 19 May 2010 16:38:39 +0000

If you want to mirror a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website, the simplest tool I know if is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wget" title="Wget" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget. Once you have used wget, you know the troubles associated with it. You also get added couple of files as search html files, which are useless and wastage of bandwidth for you as well as the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/web_server" title="Web server" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server">webserver.

lftp -e ”mirror -c”

View entire process string

Thu, 06 May 2010 13:31:20 +0000

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$ /usr/ucb/ps -auxgww Depending on your installation, when you run ps you will only get the first 40 or so characters displayed. In order to view the entire string, use /usr/ucb/ps on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/solaris_operating_system" title="Solaris (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sun.com/solaris/">Solaris.

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Convert decimal numbers to binary

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:47:07 +0000

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There is a calculator called bc that works in the command line. So if you need a quick calculator function in the command line then you could write some functions that will do the trcik for you. Here is an example:

Xoost – Search engine

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:49:36 +0000

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<a title="Xoost Search engine" href="http://www.xoost.com" target="_blank">Xoost is a community search engine. From Xoost page:

Imagine you are searching for a topic related to your favourite Music, Travel destinations, Events. With Xoost you will benefit from the exponential value of doing it much more productively together with your friends or family members. It’s all about sharing Search skills & Knowledge.

using cscope with vim

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:02:50 +0000

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Here’s the best of the two links that I found with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/google" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google and <a class="zem_slink" title="Bing" rel="homepage" href="http://bing.com/">Bing combined out of lots of links that I think can help you understand how to use cscope with vim, if you dont know already.

<a href="http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html">http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html
<a href="http://www.faqs.org/docs/ldev/0130091154_242.htm">http://www.faqs.org/docs/ldev/0130091154_242.htm

Opens Four Google Frames At Once

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:51:49 +0000

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Googlegooglegooglegoogle: Opens Four <a class="zem_slink" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google Frames At Once Googlegooglegooglegoogle (that is Google times 4!) is a simple <a class="zem_slink" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website/<a class="zem_slink" title="Homepage" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homepage">startpage that puts four Google search windows in one page. It basically displays four frames so that you do not have to leave the page to search simultaneously. This tool is incredibly useful for Google power searchers.
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Google wave invites available with mjmwired

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:49:52 +0000

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<a href="http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/">http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/ has some google wave invites available. If you want one, you can check out his site.<div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/3fd36028-1e39-4c9e-9bda-390dc0659561/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b23.png" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">

Multiple search in vim

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:02:19 +0000

I was looking at a log file and needed to highlight multiple search items to make the logs more readable. I got into multiple threads suggesting various cryptic vim commands but I was in no mood to remember them. So, I finally hit <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=479" target="_blank">this.

This is a cool vim script which you can use to highlight multiple search patter. You can simply add a search term by doing

5 Good Image Search Engines Apart From Google Image Search

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:51:18 +0000

Even if you are using Deeperweb for firefox, sometimes google isn’t just getting you to the right page and picture. You start hunting for more picture search engines, so here’s the list of best for you.

When the right picture is everything, you need to go deep into the web and comb through the millions that are out there. Image search is just like normal search and similarly painstaking.

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:46:58 +0000

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side Thankfully, the web doesn’t make us take sides. We can have the best of every world. With the launch of Bing, we had another search engine to crawl the web with. A few months and millions of searches down the line, Bing has also built up its legion of users (and fans). It’s Google vs Bing now. The former is still The search engine while the latter calls itself a decision engine.

4 Awesome Visual Search Engines To Transform Your Search

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:50:24 +0000

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<img SRC="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BingVisualSearch.jpg" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="Bing Visual Search" BORDER="0"/>Microsoft’s Bing recently introduced visual search as a different approach to search. I always use regular Google or Bing search for my needs, but sometimes I like to check out other search engines. Variety is the spice of life, and eye-candy is always a refreshing break!

Scroggle — Google with privacy.

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:30:41 +0000

If you do not like the google tracking, then scroggle is for you. Head to scroggle to see how it works, but if you are in hurry then you start searching <a title="Scgoggle" href="http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm" target="_blank">here.

And you want a Firefox plugin then head <a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=scroogle" target="_blank">here.

bing versus google

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:40:49 +0000

I have been hearing a lot about the bing versus google search engine but the question is which is good. Can’t be sure, bing is good is some results and google is good in others. You too are confused then use <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12253" target="_blank">this addon on firefox. This is a nice addon which splits the firefox screen and then displays the result side by side. Here’s how it looks , great.