Monthly Archives: February 2007

Can you change your parents?

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Jay

Today’s Linux tip (technically, a bash tip) deals with one of the most-used commands: cd. Here’s the scenario: There’s a directory deep in the filesystem that you go to a lot, so you put a symlink to it in your … Continue reading →

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I am pack leader

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Jay

For some unknown reason, our two dogs recently started getting into fights. We’re not talking the typical dogs-playing-rough type fights, these are I’m-gonna-rip-your-throat-out type fights. Now, they never tried to attack or hurt us, even when we were using our … Continue reading →

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Using vim as a pager (in gentoo)

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Jay

Wondering what the “vim-pager” use flag on app-editors/vim did, I gave it a shot. Turns out it gives you 2 extra commands: vimpager and vimmanpager. So adding export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/vimmanpager to your login script of choice (.bashrc works just fine), man … Continue reading →

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