LinuxLala’s Temple of Wisdom

script is a handy little tool that you can use to keep a record of your console session. I wrote an article on using script which got published on linux.com today.
From the article:
Sometimes when working on a trivial task, such as creating a MySQL account, I find myself unable to remember the exact steps, despite [...]

That’s my latest article. It is about using procmail to write recipes (filter rules) to filter your email into different mailboxes.
I had previously written about Mutt, the text based mail client.
While my article on mutt focussed primarily on using fetchmail to get email from your remote client and using mutt to read it, I felt [...]

My article on mp3blaster, a command line music player for *nix has just been published on linux.com.
I have discussed how mp3blaster can create groups within a playlist, which is a real cool feature not offered by any graphical player either. What really sets mp3blaster on top of all other command line music players is its [...]

That’s the title of my latest article. If you ever wondered about your discarded hard disc landing in the hands of people who might recover data on it, then this article is for you.
For, in case some of you are wondering, data recovery from hard discs is possible; even if you format and reformat the [...]

My latest article is up on Linux.com. It is about the command line tools patch and diff as the title somewhat suggests
I have discussed how patchfiles are created using diff and are then applied using patch. I find the two tools very useful and must for all developers and also for people who [...]

My latest article is up on Linux.com. It is about Shalbum, a BASH script that uses ImageMagick to create web albums.
A simple command can give you a very pretty web album and you can also have a description for each image. I was totally stunned when I first found out about shalbum. Eduardo, a brazillian [...]

So my latest article has been published on Linux.com. This one focusses on GraphViz, a graph visualization software. It’s pretty neat stuff if you need to make graphical representation of data such as mysql table relations.
If you ever need to make graphs for any project report or presentation then this is the tool. You can [...]

Do you wish to be a CLI Maestro? You have come to the right place. Today we will learn how you can search through the man pages.
Search through the man pages! Why would we need to do that you ask. Well, as Sherlock Holmes once said to Dr. Watson,
`You see,’ he explained, `I consider [...]

I wrote this article some time back and just realized that I hadn’t blogged about it. Silly me! It’s about mutt, the command line mail client. A fantastic tool that I loved learning about.
Also covered in the article is using Fetchmail to retrieve mails from your gmail account. Pretty cool, eh?
Check it out fellas, [...]

Hi. I am back with yet another newbie friendly article on linux.com. This article, talks about the compression and archiving formats/tools one comes across when working in linux. I wanted to explain to newbies what the difference was between a tarball and a gzip compressed file!
Many people often have such confusion regarding bzip2, [...]