my 2 cents
just to remember how to test if a certain directory and its files are included in the backup using the TSM commandline interface: ./dsmc preview backup -console /path/to/dir/ delete one or more files from your backup (NOTE: the quotes in … Read More »
for mail in $(sudo mailq | grep frozen | cut -c 11-26) ; do sudo exim4 -Mrm $mail done extend or adjust the grep-pattern as required by your situation…
reset vim’s internal representation of what printable characters are, then find all non-printable chars except “TAB” (note that “I” means literally pressing the TAB-key): :set isprint= /[[:print:]^I] UPDATE: a nicer way to achieve this is to activate search-highlighting and then … Read More »
http://blogs.msdn.com/robdelacruz/archive/2004/08/22/218499.aspx http://www.winboard.org/forum/allgemeines/69529-alias-mit-doskey-definieren.html
as always, apple thinks they know what’s best for the user and keep him from adjust anything to its gusto… ever wondered why the photos you sync to your iphon/ipod are completely random and out of order? no matter about … Read More »
downloading a given area via the 0.6-API of OpenStreetMap: wget -c ‘http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=-128.8,46.7,-120,51.2’ -O map.osm
set the rxvt title using a shell-command: printf \\033]0\;\%s\\007 “$title” using this e.g. as bin/set_rxvt_title, you can push even a cygwin-rxvt-ssh session to dynamically change the window-title to the host you connect to. put this into your “~/.ssh/config“: PermitLocalCommand yes … Read More »
sick and tired of click-here-click-there? use SlickRun for easier working…
OLDDATE=$(date +%s) OLDVAL=$(du -s . | sed 's, .,,') while true ; do CURDATE=$(date +%s) CURVAL=$(du -s . | sed 's, .,,') echo $(( ( $CURVAL – $OLDVAL ) / ( $CURDATE – $OLDDATE ) )) OLDVAL=$CURVAL ; OLDDATE=$CURDATE sleep … Read More »
su / sudo equivalent for windows? runas /env /user:Administrator "cmd"