by SathiyaMoorthy
on April 20, 2009
This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series. As a programmer or system administrator, you will be constantly browsing source codes and shell scripts.
Following are some typical activities that you may perform while browsing a source code file:
- Navigating to the function definition by specifying the function name.
- Navigating to the function definition from ‘function call’.
- Returning back again to function call from the definition.
- Viewing the prototype/signature of functions or variables.
- Viewing the number of functions in a file, etc.,
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on April 16, 2009
Earlier we discussed about how to install PostgreSQL database on Linux from source.
In this article, let us review top 15 practical postgreSQL DBA command examples.
If you are a mySQL administrator, check-out our 15 examples of mysqladmin command article that we discussed a while back.
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by SathiyaMoorthy
on April 13, 2009
Earlier we discussed 15 practical examples of find command and grep command. Now, it is time to turn our attention to something less.
In this article, let us review how Linux less command can be used to open and view the following 10 different file types:
- PDF File – *.pdf
- Word Document- *.doc
- Image Files – *.gif, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.png
- TAR Files – *.tar
- TAR Files with gzip – *.tar.gz
- Zip Files – *.zip
- Gzip and Gzip2 Files – *.gz and *.bz2
- ISO Files
- Debian Files – *.deb
- RPM Files – *.rpm
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on April 9, 2009
Similar to mySQL, postgreSQL is very famous and feature packed free and open source database.
Earlier we’ve discussed several installations including LAMP stack installation, Apache2 installation from source, PHP5 installation from source and mySQL installation.
In this article, let us review how to install postgreSQL database on Linux from source code.
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on April 6, 2009
Email administrators may set a limit on the maximum attachment size that can be attached to an email. You can follow the steps mentioned below to transfer big files that cannot be attached to the email because of the attachment size restriction.
This technique can be used in general whenever you need to split huge files, encrypt and transfer it.
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on April 2, 2009
This article is written by SathiyaMoorthy.
This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks Series. In this article, let us review how to use Vim Editor for composing email in Thunderbird.
External editor Plugin does the magic of composing email in Vi/Vim editor easily, allowing us to utilize all the features of the vim editor without compromising a single thing.
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on March 30, 2009
This article is written by Hari Haran.
As a system administrator, you may want to know who is on the system at any give point in time. You may also want to know what they are doing. In this article let us review 4 different methods to identify who is on your Linux system.
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by SathiyaMoorthy
on March 26, 2009
You should get a grip on the Linux grep command.
This is part of the on-going 15 Examples series, where 15 detailed examples will be provided for a specific command or functionality. Earlier we discussed 15 practical examples for Linux find command, Linux command line history and mysqladmin command.
In this article let us review 15 practical examples of Linux grep command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts.
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