Archive for March, 2009

• TECHPULP | How to access files in Linux partitions from Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows doesn’t recognize Linux partitions and doesn’t provide any file system drivers for accessing Linux partitions with EXT2/EXT3 file systems. However there are some open source tools which can be used for this purpose. Explore2fs The best and safest...
• TECHPULP | How to create a patch file in Linux using diff command
  Patch files describe the differences between two versions of same project and it is the favourite way of exchanging differences among developers. Patch files come in handy when the project is huge and exchanging whole source code is not so...

• TECHPULP | How to kill a process in Unix/Linux
  There are multiple commands supported in UNIX/Linux to kill a process. The most-used command is “kill” command which expects PID of the process which can be retrieved from the output of “ps” command. To kill a process named httpd, first...
• TECHPULP | How to use “diff” utility effectively
  The command line tool “diff” helps you find differences between two files or directories. It also can report the differences between two directories including all files and sub directories recursively. Compute differences between two files: [neo@techpulp ~]# diff animals1.txt animals2.txt...

• TECHPULP | How to find if two binary files differ or not
  The standard “diff” command can be used to find if two binary files differ from each other or not. The following example shows how to do it. [neo@techpulp ~]# diff file1.bin  file2.bin Binary files file1.bin and file2.bin differ [neo@techpulp ~]#...
• TECHPULP | How to force a HTML link to open in a new TAB
  Typically it is good to open a link which takes the user out of current website in a new window or a new TAB so that the user doesn’t leave the original site. The link target can be specified as...

• TECHPULP | Where is kedit editor in KDE of Fedora 10
  In Fedora 10, the standard KDE text editor kedit is not present. The default text editor in KDE is kwrite instead of kedit. To open kwrite you can go to “Fedora Menu > Applications > Utilities > Text Editor (kwrite)”....
• TECHPULP | How to close a non-reponsive window in KDE
  Some times applications become non-responsive due to defects in its software. KDE makes it easy to close them using the standard close button present at the top right corner of the window. Just press the X button at the top...

• TECHPULP | Creating alias commands in Bash to make life easier
  If you have longer command or a set of commands that needs to be run repeatedly and you are tired of typing full command or using history to run them, then alias commands are designed for you. Using history to...