Linux is my primary operating system. I used it on the servers, desktops, laptops, netbooks, and even mobile phones since approximately 1997. I’ve tried a number of distributions over the years, and even created a couple myself. I still look around sometimes to see what others are up to. But most of my machines are running some sort of Red Hat – either a quick and easy Fedora Linux, or a stable and secure Red Hat Enterprise Server, or a cheaper CentOS alternative.
And while by now I am very comfortable in the Linux environment (both graphical and command line), I still discover a lot of new and interesting things about it. When I come across something worthy, I usually share it with the rest of the Open Software world, using this category.
This blog post goes over several grep-like tools and their integration with Vim. If that’s something you do often, it’s worth a read. The tools are:
There are very few things that make you think of time and remind you how old you are like that email that I received another day. Red Hat Bugzilla sent me an automated email about the update on the bug in Fedora 3 (!!!) that I commented on … in November of 2004. Yeah, that’s good 13+ years ago.
This is so long ago, it’s almost unbelievable. Back in those days, I was working at PrimeTel and even had a slightly different spelling to my surname. Oh, boy.
The brand new and shiny Fedora 28 has been released! This one brings updates to Gnome, improved battery life, and external repositories for things like Google Chrome browser and Nvidia proprietary drivers.
Upgrading from Fedora 27 is easy and painless – I’ve tried it myself and all went without any problems at all.
Anybody working with git is probably well familiar with the way to undo the non-committed changes:
git reset --hard
As useful as the above command is, it still leaves some room for improvement. The above command will only undo non-committed changes on the files that git is tracking. Often, this would leave a whole bunch of files and directories in place, which are not tracked by git. So far, I’ve been using a really complicated approach for removing them, which involves git status, grep, cut, xargs, and rm. Yuck.
Turns out there is a better way, which I found in “Stupid git tricks” article:
git clean -df .
This one will forcefully remove all untracked files and directories from the current directory. Combining these two commands together results in all non-committed changes being undone, no matter if they are on tracked files or not. Cool!