Writing tips
Omit unnecessary words. Make every sentence contribute to the point you want to make. Use paragraphs as your arguments. Go through a piece and ask, is this word/clause/sentence/paragraph really...
View ArticleDisable Password Prompt at Startup in Windows XP
Note: This post may be wrong. I’m getting a lot of complaints that this doesn’t work. See the Microsoft page on how to do this here Disabling startup login prompt for password Click Start and Run Type...
View ArticleFetch columns of Output using Awk
One can use awk to get a specific column from a command output… First column of the command date|awk '{print $1}' 11th Column of the command ps aux|awk '{print $11}' Use a different Field separator cat...
View ArticleDirectory Listing Only Search
The search that limits the results to just directory listings… intitle:”index.of” inanchor:”Last Modified” inanchor:”Description” inanchor:”Parent Directory” -filetype:php -filetype:asp -filetype:htm...
View ArticleShortcuts – Hard and Soft Links in Linux
This is how to create hard and soft links in Linux. Remember, a directory cannot be hard linked. #Hard link ln /path/to/file.ext . #Soft link ln -s /path/to/file.ext . [tags]link, shortcut,...
View ArticleGoogle Reader Shortcuts
Some Google Reader Shortcuts j/k item down/up selects the next/previous item in the list s toggle star stars the selected item shift-s toggle share shares the selected item m mark as read/unread...
View Articlecmp Command – Compare Files
The command cmp is similar to diff: # cmp file1 file2 file1 file2 differ: byte 10, line 1
View ArticleRemove Even Lines
This command removes all the even lines from the file given as the argument cat example.txt|awk 'NR%2==1'
View ArticleText type convert
Convert a text file format from MSDOS to UNIX dos2unix input_file output_file
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