Shell Tips !

You may have some troubles while using a network share on windows because of access restriction errors. Don’t panic, just use CACLS on windows XP.

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If you have change your rc file of your favorites bash (like ~/.bashrc in “bash“), you can reload it easly by using “exec“. Just type the following command line :

nicolas@grimm:~/$ exec bash

Exec replace the current process image with a new process image . So, now if you add aliases in your ~/.bash_aliases, just use “exec bash” and you could use your aliases in your current terminal. This way is also useful if you want to change your current shell without spawn another process. I mean, if you have a box where your login shell is a classical “sh“, you can also do an “exec bash“, that will replace your current shell by a friendly one.

Good start for the new year, I’m learning Python and so add a new bunch of pages on shell-tips.com about some Trac plugins that I’m doing. Trac is a minimalistic web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system. It provides an interface to the Subversion revision control systems, an integrated wiki, flexible issue tracking and convenient report facilities.

Two plugins are currently in the pipe :

• A Platform Deployment Plugin for simplify web sources deployment on remote host
• A Syslog-NG Plugin for having a nice interface for your web server syslog and so tracking the bugs

You can know more about those projects here.