Archive for November, 2007

WGET – usage tips

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Examples: If you need only to download something from an url: wget http://cristian-radulescu.ro/image.gif With user (abc) and password (abc123): wget http://cristian-radulescu.ro/document.pdf --user=abc --password=abc123 Download from an url list (list.txt): wget -i list.txt When the connection fails you can continue: wget -c http://cristian-radulescu.ro/arhiva.zip The default number of retries is set to 20. Set the number of retries to infinity: wget -t ...

Using multiple yahoo accounts at the same time

Friday, November 16th, 2007

If you have more than Yahoo accounts and you want to use them in the same time, there is a simple way to do it, by using an alternative instant messenger client or by executing some small tweaks on the Yahoo Messenger client. Alternatives: Alternatives to the Yahoo Messenger client are Pidgin, ...

How to create a simple shell script

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Here is a simple example of creating and running (executing) a shell script. This script will display the numbers from 1 to 10. Creating the script: With any text editor (Gedit for Gnome, Kate for KDE, nano): #/bin/bash for ((i = 1; i