How I Tamed Linux...or How Linux Tamed Me

Taskwarrior for Android released

Taskwarrior for Android is new front end for Taskwarrior, excellent command line task manager and a very good replacement for Mirakel which has big problems with crashing on sync with task server.

Download it from Google Play.

Happy hacking….

Quick ebook conversion with Calibre

I mostly use fbless ebook reader, because it works on console and don’t need to switch to X server for reading. Downside is that it recognize only .fb2 or .fb2.zip format, which is not so common. For quick conversion I use Calibre command line tool:

ebook-convert How.to.Convert.Ebooks.epub How.to.Convert.Ebooks.fb2

…quick and efficient. Happy hacking….

Editing files over ssh in vim

Need a quick file edit on remote server. With vim it’s easy, use:

vim scp://username@host:port//path/to/file

…or within vim:

:e scp://username@host:port//path/to/file

…or if you are not sure about name of the file, browse remote directory with:

:e vim scp://username@host:port//path/to/directory/

Directory path must end with /.Remote home directory is invoked with:

:e…

gpg not working without X server

If you are trying to use gpg command for encrypt or decrypt data on tty without X server (I use that in combination with yadm, you will probably get this error:

gpg: public key decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

If you don’t want to switch to X every time, there is a simple solution.Put this line in your ~/.bashrc:

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)

Happy hacking…

In need for quick weather forecast? Use:

curl wttr.in/<your city>

Excellent little web service based on wego and wttr.in, a web frontend for wego.

You can also use installed wego directly by obtaining  API key from here and editing ~/.wegorc like:

{ "APIKey": "", "City": "", "Numdays": 5, "Imperial": false, "Lang": "en" }

….and you get weather forecast for five days.

Happy hacking….

Passing time in console

If you use console as default working environment, it is nice to pass some time with games without switching to X server just for that. There is plenty of games for the X server, but there are also games that work in console too. That’s my list of them:

The first and for sure the most well known game is Dwarf Fortress, excellent game where you build and control dwarven outpost in randomly…

inxi, very versatile script to get various hardware and software data, have also interesting option -w which display local weather data: Weather: Conditions: 36 F (2 C) - Clear Time: February 4, 8:15 PM CET

…or if you use verbose variante with -x, -xx or -xxx, the output contains more data: inxi -wxxx Weather: Conditions: 36 F (2 C) - Clear Wind: From the South at 2 MPH Humidity: 87% Pressure:…

My new, old laptop

When my old laptop’s display crashed, it became desktop, connected to external display via working VGA output and I suddenly lost mobility. I ‘need’ mobility, because I like working outside if the weather allows it. I don’t need some powerful laptop, because mostly I use it as text editor (vim) and music player (moc) while I work and that’s it. So all I need is terminal emulator, in my case tmux,…

Recursive change of file permissions and attributes

This is just quick sequel to previous post: #changing directory permissions to 755 find . -depth -type d -name '*' -execdir bash \-c 'a="{}";chmod 755 -f "$a"' \;

#changing file permissions to 644 find . -depth -type f -name '*' -execdir bash \-c 'a="{}";chmod 644 -f "$a"' \;

…of course you must be root to do so… Happy New Year!

Generate your bash prompt

      Interesting:

Generate your bash prompt.

Happy hacking…

hstr – improved bash history completition

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When working on command line most of the time, there is always a problem with long commands, for example: find . -depth -name '* *' -execdir bash \-c 'a="{}";mv -f "$a" ${a// /.}' \; (this command replace all spaces ‘ ‘ with dots ‘.’ recursively in directories and file names, see my post for explanation)

There is option with ctrl-r or you can use clipboard manager like anamnesis or CopyQor some…

goto – enhanced cd command

goto – enhanced ‘cd’ command replacement tool with fuzzy file finder and a directory bookmark saver, similar to autojump.

The usage is simple and effective:

goto -h, -help, h, help  # Prints the Usage

goto "location address"  # Takes you to the "location address"

goto s, -s "shortcut"  # Saves the Current Directory location as "shortcut"

goto l, -l  # Lists all the Bookmarks saved

goto d, -d…

world in ASCII code

asciiworld – that’s how world is represented in ASCII code. Interesting project which come equiped with some interesting tools: geoIP, day/night, satelite tracking, different world projections.

If you are on ArchLinux instalation is simple, just use AUR repository, for others compiling is the option, just read README files and Makefile for dependencies.

Anything else…, oh yes, the words of author