Category Archives: Bash

Editing command line with $EDITOR

Posted on August 6, 2010 by herlo

Recently, I’ve been working on a huge command line that I wanted to edit over and over.  However, the problem was that I didn’t want to use the prompt to edit the command.  It took me a while to realize … Continue reading →

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Succumbing to the pressure

Posted on April 12, 2008 by herlo

My T60p. [clints@herlo-lap ~]$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 144 svn 144 cd 108 ls 104 ./manage.py 101 ssh 69 su 43 screen 26 vim 25 rm 15 ping [clints@thor ~]$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } … Continue reading →

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Distro Comparison: openSUSE 10.3 first impressions

Posted on December 14, 2007 by herlo

I don’t know if I can last an entire week with openSUSE 10.3. I can’t believe I even thought it possible. I am jonesing for Fedora right now, even though any other distro would probably do… What’s wrong with SUSE … Continue reading →

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Locate vs Find

Posted on November 17, 2007 by herlo

Tonight at the Ubuntu Utah User Group I presented about Locate vs Find. The slides are here and written in S5. Kevin Kubasik also presented on Desktop Search in Gnome. It was pretty cool as well. The presentations went very … Continue reading →

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POW: bash-completion – Bash Auto Completion in Fedora using yum (and more)

Posted on October 24, 2007 by herlo

In an attempt to consistently blog, I am starting a new series here on fedora-tutorials.com. Program of the Week (POW). Hopefully, this will excite and inform all of us about the cool programs available in Fedora. So see you next … Continue reading →

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