Archive for the ‘Bash’ Category

Editing command line with $EDITOR

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 what I wanted, but finally, I realized that most of the Emacs bindings are very [...]

Posted on August 6, 2010 at 2:17 pm by herlo · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Succumbing to the pressure

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]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 266 git 260 make 71 cd 57 [...]

Posted on April 12, 2008 at 7:31 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Distro Comparison: openSUSE 10.3 first impressions

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 you ask? Just about EVERYTHING! I’m not comfortable at all in this rancid environment. It [...]

Posted on December 14, 2007 at 1:06 pm by herlo · Permalink · 14 Comments
In: Bash, Fedora, GNOME, Guru, Install, Networking, Suse, Tech · Tagged with: , , , , , , ,

Locate vs Find

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 well and was streamed and recorded by Utah Open Source Foundation.

Posted on November 17, 2007 at 9:05 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Bash, Presentations, Tech, Tools

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

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 Wednesday for another program. Over the past year or so, I’ve been on the hunt [...]

Posted on October 24, 2007 at 9:29 am by herlo · Permalink · 5 Comments
In: Bash, Fedora, POW, Tech, Tools, Yum · Tagged with: , , ,