Completion of Symbolic Links to Directories

By default Bash will not append a trailing forward-slash to sybolic links pointed at directories. This is because a symlink is seen as a file instead of a directory. Adding the following line to your ~/.inputrc will add this missing forward-slash and make your terminal use easier.

set mark-symlinked-directories on

Command Line RSS Interface

Everyday we follow the lives (nearly in real-time) of our family, friends, news, and favorite blogs using some type of ticker. Whether it be on the “wall” of a social networking site, on our phones, or on the television in our living rooms, we thrive on instantaneous notification of events we can’t be present to experience first hand.

So why not my server? It happens to be one of my closest friends, can’t I be informed of current events occurring in it’s life as well? With the help of an RSS feed interfaced by the command line, I now can.