http://www.33dots.com Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:07:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is my attempt to get familiar with the various text processing tools in Linux. I am also noting down several oneliners that i found elsewhere. Its a continuation of my earlier post Linux text processing tools - Part 1 This is NOT written as a tutorial. For details on usage and ... http://www.33dots.com/index.php/linux/linux-text-processing-tools-2.html This is my attempt to get familiar with the various small yet powerful text processing tools in linux. I am also noting down several oneliners that i found elsewhere. This is NOT written as a tutorial. For details on usage and options check man pages tr - tanslate or delete characters Usage: ... http://www.33dots.com/index.php/linux/linux-text-processing-tools-1.html This a report on how i solved radeon driver related booting problem and automatically switched OFF the Radeon card of my Sony VAIO C series laptop in Fedora 15. This laptop has a AMD Radeon and Intel combination. The steps may be somewhat similar for other laptops with ATI/Intel combinations in ... http://www.33dots.com/index.php/linux/hybrid-graphics-in-sony-vaio-and-fedora.html I wanted to copy some text from my Virtual Console (Ctrl + Alt +F[1-6]). Each of the Virtual Console have a corresponding /dev/vcs[1-6] file. So doing a cat /dev/vcs2 you get the screen dump of Virtual Console 2. Note that the output does not contain newline characters, so not properly formatted. Now the /dev/ttyX ... http://www.33dots.com/index.php/linux/accessing-the-linux-virtual-console-from-x.html During my Fedora 15 installation, i made two Logical Volumes, HomeLV 50GB for /home and RootLV 5GB for /. This was a mistake and very soon the / was full. [root@localhost ~]# df -h / Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/FedVG-RootLV 4.8G  4.5G  4.9G  94% / So i now wanted to shrink the ... http://www.33dots.com/index.php/linux/shrinking-and-growing-logica-volume.html