Thursday, October 30, 2008

Links in emails

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OK, Joe in sales has just sent you and 16 others in your department yet another 13 MB PowerPoint presentation for everyone to review. And to...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I like either for grep'ing

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There are times when you want to grep for multiple different lines from a file. For example, the text file below could be an example of a lo...
Saturday, August 2, 2008

Grep'ing for a column value

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A few days ago I needed to get those lines from a file that only contained a certain value in a certain field. To simplify the example, let...
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Friday, May 2, 2008

Multiline AutoCorrect

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In an earlier blog entry I showed how the cool Microsoft Word AutoCorrect feature can be used to both increase your typing speed and your s...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Nifty Regular Expressions (RegExp)

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I personally use TextPad as my default text editor. There are probably some much fancier ones out there, but TextPad has all the features t...
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Saturday, February 2, 2008

Searching XSLT files

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I work a lot with XML and XSLT files, and hence I often need to grep files (i.e. search for text strings in files) for certain term. Windows...

What's the difference?

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If you work with plain text files, you often have 2 almost identical text files and you need to know what the difference between them is. Th...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

Command line tools for dummies: Stringing them together

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In the last blog entry we introduced a few basic UNIX command line tools. Now we'll start stringing them together to make them really us...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Command line tools for dummies

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Let me start by saying that I receive no kickbacks or any other compensation from any of the products that I mention. I would certainly like...
Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Copy your AutoCorrect list

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As you may have read in the latest blog , AutoCorrect is a very useful feature in most Microsoft Office applications. Once you have created ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Use AutoCorrect to type really fast

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Like most people, I also use Microsoft Word to write documentation, email, etc. and one of the features I use the most is AutoCorrect. Warni...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

There are stars and then there are stars

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Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel are both fantastic programs that most of us use everyday. Personally I vote for Microsoft Excel as the be...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

DOS Prompt FOR command

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The FOR command available in the DOS prompt is surprisingly useful. As you may have seen in the earlier blog the help on the FOR command (i...

DOS prompt file information

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Ever need to get the size of a file or get the short DOS 8.3 name from the command line or from a BAT script. Simply type in "HELP FOR...

DOS prompt command history

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When working in a DOS prompt you often need to repeat commands, or at least execute very similar commands. There are a few nifty ways to rep...