Thursday, September 5, 2013

No syntax highlighting in vimdiff

Vim Syntax highlight often mixed with diff color, which makes text unreadable.

Add following line in ~/.vimrc to turn off syntax off in vimdiff

if &diff | syntax off | endif

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

IO Redirection - Swapping stdout and stderr (Advanced)

% (sh myscript.sh 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3) 2>/dev/null
I'm stderr
% (sh myscript.sh 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3) >/dev/null 
I'm stdout

Thursday, August 8, 2013

python 3 line to solve 8 queen

from itertools import *
c = range(8)
print len([v for v in permutations(c) if 8==len(set(v[i]+i for i in c))==len(set(v[i]-i for i in c))])

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Python overwrite printed line, e.g. text progress

\r will reset the cursor to the beginning of the line.
>>> for i in range(100):
...    time.sleep(1)
...    sys.stdout.write("\r%d%%" %i)    # or print >> sys.stdout, "\r%d%%" %i,
...    sys.stdout.flush()
... 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Thursday, March 7, 2013

brackets, parentheses, curly braces in BASH


In Bash, test and [ are builtins.
The double bracket enables additional functionality. For example, you can use && and || instead of-a and -o and there's a regular expression matching operator =~.
The braces, in addition to delimiting a variable name are used for parameter expansion so you can do things like:
  • Truncate the contents of a variable
    $ var="abcde"; echo ${var%d*}
    abc
  • Make substitutions similar to sed
    $ var="abcde"; echo ${var/de/12}
    abc12
  • Use a default value
    $ default="hello"; unset var; echo ${var:-$default}
    hello
  • and several more

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Vim folding, auto fold xml, fold, unfold


To allow folds based on syntax add something like the following to your .vimrc:
set foldmethod=syntax
set foldlevelstart=1

let javaScript_fold=1         " JavaScript
let perl_fold=1               " Perl
let php_folding=1             " PHP
let r_syntax_folding=1        " R
let ruby_fold=1               " Ruby
let sh_fold_enabled=1         " sh
let vimsyn_folding='af'       " Vim script
let xml_syntax_folding=1      " XML

zo -- To open a fold block
zc -- To fold a block
zr -- Fold less
zm -- Fold more

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Python multiple thread processing


from multiprocessing import Pool
pool = Pool(processes=5)
pages = pool.map(visit, get_lines(file))

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

List recently modified files under a directory in linux shell

In order to list files that have been modified recently, we could use the find command to retrieve the file information and sort them by modified date:

find . -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' {} \; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head

However, this will miss some folders if the folders are symoblic links. So in this case we could specify find to follow symbolic links.

find -L . -type f -exec stat --format '%Y :%y %n' {} \; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head

Fourther more, if you just want to get files modified in last a few days, it's build in in find:

find . -mtime n

list files that modified n*24 hours ago.

Monday, February 4, 2013

The difference between soft link and hard link in linux

From: http://linuxgazette.net/105/pitcher.html


Unix files consist of two parts: the data part and the filename part.
The data part is associated with something called an 'inode'. The inode carries the map of where the data is, the file permissions, etc. for the data.
                               .---------------> ! data ! ! data ! etc
                              /                  +------+ !------+
        ! permbits, etc ! data addresses !
        +------------inode---------------+

The filename part carries a name and an associated inode number.
                         .--------------> ! permbits, etc ! addresses !
                        /                 +---------inode-------------+
        ! filename ! inode # !
        +--------------------+
More than one filename can reference the same inode number; these files are said to be 'hard linked' together.
        ! filename ! inode # !
        +--------------------+
                        \
                         >--------------> ! permbits, etc ! addresses !
                        /                 +---------inode-------------+
        ! othername ! inode # !
        +---------------------+
On the other hand, there's a special file type whose data part carries a path to another file. Since it is a special file, the OS recognizes the data as a path, and redirects opens, reads, and writes so that, instead of accessing the data within the special file, they access the data in the file named by the data in the special file. This special file is called a 'soft link' or a 'symbolic link' (aka a 'symlink').