I like setting up shortcuts to frequently used commands whether I used Windows or Linux. I use the terminal often and create shortcuts to frequently used commands using “alias” feature of BASH. This has saved me considerable time in the past. However, I recently felt that if I could have a helper tool to monitor [...]
Categories: linux,programming,python,text processing,Uncategorized,veveo
Tagged: bash, linux, productivity, python, script
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- August 28, 2009 – 8:05 am
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- By prashanthellina
I refer Wikipedia frequently. I use this BASH function to help me do that from the terminal. For explanation of how this works head over here. BASH function # wiki # eg: wiki India # wiki Apple_Inc # wiki Anglo_Saxon wiki() { dig +short txt $1.wp.dg.cx } Example usage prashanth@prashanth-desktop:~$ wiki India “India, officially the [...]
Categories: linux,web,wikipedia
Tagged: bash, code, function, productivity, terminal, wikipedia
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- August 23, 2009 – 10:52 am
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- By prashanthellina