SubscribeThe joy of colors
Sunday, 09 November 2008Ever so often, as I have mentioned before, I lose myself in trying to find new ways of working and doing my daily tasks, one such digression is the topic of editors. I mainly use GNU Emacs for development and other major tasks, for everything else I use vim.
Vim is quick to start, capable, good looking and easy to use, contrary to other vi implementations. (Most notably nvi, which I hate with a passion!) Today I found a neat colorscheme that works well on terminals with a black background. It's called 'advantage' and is available from the Vim Color Scheme Test.
To install it you simply download advantage.vim and copy it to your /usr/share/vim/vim71/colors/ directory. Then you open your current C source in vim and type :colorscheme advantage.
Thank you Shan Leung Maverick Woo! :-)
Regexp replace in many files
Sunday, 13 July 2008I just have to blog about this exceptional tool I just found. It is called regexxer and is a tool in the true UNIX spirit — it does one job only, and does it well.
Top Ten UNIX Shell Commands
Saturday, 23 September 2006Current trend is to run the following one-liner from IBM. I'm usually logged in to the following three systems, with very different results:
vmlinux.org
$ history |awk '{print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -10
144 ls
61 cd
58 sudo
29 less
23 emacs
19 bzr
16 vim
11 rm
10 wget
10 mv
My personal life. Not much different from my professional dito. Most visible difference maybe is my use of bzr instead of svn. At the time we decided on svn at work bzr had not matured enough and darcs didn't (still doesn't) have a Windows client as good as TortoiseSVN.
Build server @work
$ history |awk '{print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -10
108 cd
63 svn
44 search
41 ls
25 sudo
23 less
23 ./build.sh
21 make
17 ./netprobe
16 man
Mostly work stuff, 'search' is a small wrapper around find that skips .svn dirs and semantic.cache files and other annoying things you constantly run in to when looking for something. The build script is a small wrapper around make for our Snapgear and uClinux-dist trees. Netprobe was one of the last prototypes I wrote to investigate some UNIX peculiarities involving libnet and libpcap.
troglobit (my laptop)
$ history |awk '{print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -10
140 sudo
47 ifconfig
45 less
27 ps
26 ssh
25 iwconfig
21 ping
21 man
15 ls
15 cd
Well, I'm having trouble with my laptop network. The wlan (wpa_supplicant) doesn't like suspend/resume on my ThinkPad T43.
Update: I had to make an update to this, even at first I had my doubts about the first script. It didn't feel right, now after revising it, and reading Planet Debian, I noticed Erich Schuberts entry. There it was, the working script, which I only had to bashify! Thanks Erich!