Finding number of lines in files recursively

I wanted to find the number of lines from a set of files – spread out in nested directories. The shell command “wc” is best for finding number of words / lines in files but it does not have an argument for recursive searching. Here’s a quick shell command sequence that will find you the […]

Introduction to Screencasting in Linux – recordMyDesktop

Screencasting is a great way to share information. I use it to show bugs to my team, to record training videos of the project management system I am working on, and even to record demos of project deliveries to clients. I use Jing to record videos from my Mac. But wanted to find something useful […]

Congratulations Kartik!

Congratulations Kartik for becoming a Debian Developer! You make me proud! It’s been a long journey. You have stayed on course despite all the odds. Congratulations! Thanks for the graphic Kunal 😉

Grab more contacts – ContactGrabber does 10 sites now

Attention: Contact Grabber is not actively maintained anymore. We recommend OpenInviter instead. OpenInviter supports more sites and is in active development. The latest version of our GPL product ContactGrabber now allows you to fetch contacts from 10 different sites. AOL (new) LinkedIn (new) Lycos (new) IndiaTimes (new) Yahoo Orkut Gmail Rediff Hotmail Myspace ContactGrabber allows […]

Search and Replace Recursively using sed and grep

I have done this so many times, still I find a new problem doing recursive search and replace each time! Here’s one small shell script that puts the issues I had on the Mac doing search and replace on a directory recursively. Save the file as rpl.sh, chmod it 755, and execute it like: [code]./rpl.sh […]