Really simple batch renaming in Linux
While working on the photos section of trigonakis.com, I wanted to batch rename some photos, so after the renaming their new name would be prefix_i, where i is a incremental value. The following...
View ArticleLinux Commands: a useful article
Yesterday, I found an article called “A Practical Guide to Linux Commands“; a compact guide to several linux command use cases, such as backup and compression, searching the filesystem, etc. I have to...
View ArticleNetbeans 6.9.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 Installation – OpenJDK problem
I wanted to install Netbeans IDE 6.9.1 (C/C++ version, but I believe that the problem is generic) on my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop, so after downloading the latest version from netbeans.org, I tried to...
View ArticleExtracting citations from a BibTex file using Linux terminal
I had a big (around 40 entries) BibTex file with the references of some papers I studied and I wanted to extract the citations in the format used for citing in Latex (\cite{AuthorYear}). Just today I...
View ArticleRemoving the SVN metadata files (.svn/) in Linux
If you ever want to remove a folder from SVN control (clean the folder by removing the .snv metadata folders) in Linux, you can simply run the following command: rm -rf $(find...
View ArticleSelecting a random file/folder of a folder in Linux
I always had the following problem: “How to select which movie (from the ones in my collection) to watch“. In the past, I had used the random (pseudo-random to be precise) capabilities of C, Java,...
View ArticleNetbeans 7.0 on Ubuntu Installation – OpenJDK problem
Installation The installation process is simple: Download the version you want to install from here. Navigate to the folder were the .sh file was downloaded. Give executable permissions to the .sh...
View ArticleGCC — 64bits addressing: function returns 32bits pointer
Today, it was the second time I stepped on an interesting problem with GCC (well, it is actually a behavior). I created a function which returns a void* in a .c file. This C file was then compiled and...
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