Archive for category Linux and Systems
Shell Tricks #2 – Filtering CVS Verbosity
Posted by A R Baboon in Computer Science, Linux and Systems on December 29, 2004
I am having a little trouble getting back to posting so I decided to post a programming nugget. This is a nice little way to get a clear picture of your CVS working area:
cvs status | egrep “(Need|Mod)”
I have this in my .bashrc:
alias cvsstatus cvs status | egrep “(Need|Mod)”
Shell Tricks #1 – When size matters
Posted by A R Baboon in General, Linux and Systems on April 23, 2004
We will start with something easy for Issue 1.
Ever need to clear some space fast? It may be easier to remove the largest files first. Use this trick to find which files to prune first:
du -sk | sort -n