Ping script to show only avg and pkt. loss

October 30th, 2008   Filed Under General, Scripts  

echo `sed -n '1!G;h;$p' <<< "\`ping -c 5 localhost\`" | sed -n 's/^.* received, \([^ ]*\) packet loss.*$/\1 loss/p;s/^rtt min\/avg\/max\/mdev = [0-9.]*\/\([^/]*\)\/.*$/\1/p'`

thanks vali :)

Remote nautilus vs. Firefox ftp browsing

October 28th, 2008   Filed Under General, X11  

unset “/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp” in gconf-editor

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=18728

locale.gen

October 28th, 2008   Filed Under General  

en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US UTF-8
en_GB ISO-8859-1
en_GB UTF-8
de_DE ISO-8859-1
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
de_DE UTF-8
fr_FR ISO-8859-1
fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15
fr_FR UTF-8
ro_RO ISO-8859-1
ro_RO ISO-8859-2
ro_RO ISO-8859-16
ro_RO UTF-8

Ms fonts

October 28th, 2008   Filed Under General, X11  

Corefonts

Color Bash Prompt

October 28th, 2008   Filed Under General  

ArchWiki :: Color Bash Prompt – ArchWiki

Setting starting weekday

October 28th, 2008   Filed Under General, X11  

In a lot of countries the first day of the week is Monday. To do change or add the following lines under the LC_TIME section in /usr/share/i18n/locales/<your_locale>

week            7;19971130;5
first_weekday   2
first_workday   2

And then run

# locale-gen

and restart X.

ArchWiki :: Configuring locales – ArchWiki

Tip: Bash Shortcuts

October 28th, 2008   Filed Under General  

Ctrl-a Move to the start of the line.
Ctrl-e Move to the end of the line.
Ctrl-b Move back one character.
Alt-b Move back one word.
Ctrl-f Move forward one character.
Alt-f Move forward one word.
Alt-] x Where x is any character, moves the cursor forward to the next occurance of x.
Alt-Ctrl-] x Where x is any character, moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurance of x.
Ctrl-u Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl-k Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl-w Delete from the cursor to the start of the word.
Esc-Del Delete previous word (may not work, instead try Esc followed by Backspace)
Ctrl-y Pastes text from the clipboard.
Ctrl-l Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen.
Ctrl-x Ctrl-u Undo the last changes. Ctrl-_ does the same
Alt-r Undo all changes to the line.
Alt-Ctrl-e Expand command line.
Ctrl-r Incremental reverse search of history.
Alt-p Non-incremental reverse search of history.
!! Execute last command in history
!abc Execute last command in history beginning with abc
!abc:p Print last command in history beginning with abc
!n Execute nth command in history
!$ Last argument of last command
!^ First argument of last command
^abc^xyz Replace first occurance of abc with xyz in last command and execute it

Tux Training » Blog Archive » Tip: Bash Shortcuts

Bash History search

October 27th, 2008   Filed Under General, Scripts  

Usually, when typing ‘ls’ and pressing , your current input will be replaced with man mount. If you are using history seach, only past commands beginning with ‘ls’ (the current input) will be shown, in this case ‘ls /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-ARCH/kernel/power/Kconfig’.

You can enable this mode by adding to /etc/inputrc or your ~/.inputrc

"\e[A":history-search-backward
"\e[B":history-search-forward

ArchWiki :: Bash – ArchWiki

Ubuntu network alias

October 27th, 2008   Filed Under General, Ubuntu  

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

Append the following configuration:

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
name Ethernet alias LAN card
address 192.168.1.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
network 192.168.1.0

A-DayS » Creating ethernet alias for eth0 network device on Ubuntu

Find files modified at a certain time

October 27th, 2008   Filed Under General  

To find all files modified in the last 24 hours (last full day) in current directory and its sub-directories:

find . -mtime -1 -print

Tux Training » Blog Archive » Find files modified at a certain time