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vim completion

I’ve just found something rather useful in vim: :set wildmode. Normally in vim, you can use TAB to complete filenames. So you enter :e some/ve<TAB> and vim pads it out to :e some/very_long_filename.html. Lovely.
But in a directory full of files with similar prefixes, it’s less than helpful. I hit :e [...]

Posted 30 October 2008 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Curl Tip

Sometimes when running curl, you need to disable the Pragma: no-cache header it sends by default. It turns out that this is quite easy to do:

% curl -v -H Pragma: http://example.com/

Posted 04 September 2008 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

My Sysadmin Toolbox

After seeing lots of these at Linux.com recently, I thought I’d try to come up with my own list. I used to be a sysadmin (I’m now a programmer), and I’ve long felt that you really a good set of tools (and to know how to use them) in order to be most productive.

zsh
I [...]

Posted 17 April 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

MultiTail

I used to use tail -f a lot to follow the end of a logfile, as it was written to. Nowadays I tend to use less +F instead, as it can highlight search terms for you as well.
But I’ve just seen multitail. It splits the screen and lets you follow as many log [...]

Posted 28 March 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Reboots for Users

Jamis Buck has a good article on how to run TextDrive and Lighttpd together. It involves switching the Rails FastCGI processes to be managed independently from the web server. Essentially, the Rails FastCGI runners become independent daemons.
But what’s really useful is the tip in the first comment. It mentions an obscure crontab [...]

Posted 12 February 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,