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Recently I came across the command Ctrl-R in the bash shell. It allows you to search and browse your bash history. For instance you ssh into your server every day, in between each ssh you do a bunch of other things, this makes in impractical to use the Up arrow key to go through your […]

While using Gtk+ based applications you can use the middle mouse button on the scrollbar to move directly to that point, instead of moving to the point a page at a time.

In the bash shell curly braces { and } are surprisingly useful things to reduce typing. With the mkdir command they help you create trees of directories in one command. For instance: mkdir -p foo/{bar,baz,goo/loo/imp}/buildmkdir -p foo/{bar,baz,goo/loo/imp}/build will create the following directory structure: foo/bar/build foo/baz/build foo/goo/loo/imp/buildfoo/bar/build foo/baz/build foo/goo/loo/imp/build The curly braces can also be used […]

I’m currently trying out LFS again. I’m using BLAG (basically FC5) as the base, and I’m reminded once again at how slow doing things with source is. I hear people complain about how slow YUM is, but compared with using source AND using all the test kits it is extremely fast. In a few days […]