Tag Archives: Productivity

Processing A List Of Files In bash

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on July 17, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , . 1 Comment.
Under the tracks at Washington and Canal
When you’re working in Unix or Linux or even Mac OS X, there are often times when you need to apply the same command to a list of files.  In this post I’ll show you a couple of quick ways to do this using the bash shell. Let’s assume you have a command called that [...]

Firefox Search Shortcut

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on April 3, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , . 1 Comment.
Adding a Keyword to the CPAN Search Box
Wow.  This cool Firefox feature has been around since 2005, but I just found out about it a few months ago!  I swear I haven’t been living in a cave all this time.  So if you’re like me and don’t know about this yet, listen up:  In Firefox, you can bookmark a search with a [...]

Navigating the Directory Stack in ‘bash’

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on February 20, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , , , . 3 Comments.
Barracks by the Taj Mahal
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time jumping from project to project in a Linux shell.  I find that I have to switch back and forth between directories.  The bash shell has commands to maintain a stack of directories.  I’ve written some functions that use these utilities to make directory navigation easier. [...]

Why Text Editors Matter

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on January 26, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Emacs Screenshot
A good editor is a very flexible tool. Once you become an expert at it, you can use it to accomplish tasks almost as quickly as you can think of them.