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Quick command line spell check of a single word or sentence

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Here’s a short bash script, using aspell, to spell check a word or several words from the command line. It’s simple but effective. If anyone else knows a cleaner or even simpler way, please let us know. #!/bin/bash WORD=$1 TEMPFILE=temp.spell echo $WORD > $TEMPFILE aspell -c $TEMPFILE cat $TEMPFILE rm -f $TEMPFILE rm -f $TEMPFILE.bak [...]

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Mcabber Update

Friday, August 28, 2009

The only thing I wanted to add to this, It’s nice to filter you list of users based on their status. If someone is offline, for example, I don’t want to see them in my list. Likewise if they’re away. from inside mcabber, type: /roster hide_offline or, set an entry in your configuration. From the [...]

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My Xresources

Thursday, August 27, 2009

I put this in a file, .Xresources, in my home directory. It is loaded automatically each time I create a new shell, I’m not sure if it’s enabled by default or if something I installed did it. ! rxvt settings rxvt*font: 12X15 rxvt*saveLines: 1500 rxvt*scrollBar_right: true # Index color index cyan black ~l # Mailing [...]

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Use RXVT With Cygwin

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

I’m starting a series of posts about my cygwin setup. One of the main reasons, if not the main reason for installing cygwin is employ the use of a bash shell.  By default cygwin provides a link to the cygwin bash shell in the Start menu and on the desktop. The default cygwin shell is [...]

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