Productivity
Go Up As Much Directory Levels As You Need – Easily
This neat and brilliant script by shell-fu allows you to go up as many directory levels as you want.
For example, instead of typing
cd ../../../..
You’ll be able to type the following and get the same functionality:
cd .. 4
Using Gmail to Fight Chain Mails
I’ve already talked in a previous post about how chain mails drive me mad.
Now it’s time to take action, using Gmail’s powerful feature.
One thing one can do, is using Gmail filters to identify chain mails according to the mail’s subject (Which will be typically “Fw:Fw something” or similar), and archive/delete/label this message. But, this is not aggressive enough. Here is another action one can take using another powerful Gmail feature (currently a “Labs” feature).
Query Google Finance From the Command Line
This is a one line bash script I wrote to query a stock’s price from Google Finance. It uses wget to get the HTML page from Google Finance and then grep and cut to extract the stock’s price. The script is based on the current HTML format of the Google Finance pages and might not work if Google decide to change this format (It’s easy to modify, though).
To have the script:
Open your favorite text editor (mine is vim), and type/paste this:
Use Jemdoc to Create Static HTML Pages
Jemdoc Is a tool (in fact, it’s a python script) that I discovered about a year ago, but had time to test it only recently. Its purpose is to create a clean and standard compliant HTML pages in a very short time. Its syntax is easy to learn (In fact, I’m not sure that “syntax” is the appropriate word for this, since it’s much simpler than a “regular” syntax).
Anyway, I decided to write the complete post about Jemdoc using Jemdoc itself 
, so the rest of this post is located here.
Enjoy
Did You Notice the New Task Manager in Gmail?
As usual, Google releases a new great feature/service, silently, and after a while it becomes so popular. In fact, this is one thing that I love about Google: You always have to look for new features and new services, they won’t let you know unless you actively want to know.
Anyway, recently I discovered a very cool (and useful) service in GMail: A Task Manager built-in GMail, with a minimal and simple UI (this is one other thing that I like in Google).
Todo.txt – A simple yet powerful todo manager for Linux
Recently, I discrovered todo.txt, a great todo list manager for people who feel comfortable with Linux’s command line.
The greatness of this tool is in its simplicity: the whole todo list is saved as plain text, and operations like adding/removing/prioritarizing/modifying/listing items are done through a very simple command line interface supplied in a bash script.
About Me
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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