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.

Tab complete ESSIDs in Bash

Do you ever find yourself having to transfer AP information between terminals while using Aircrack?  Thankfully the new version supports BSSID resolution from ESSID, but what when a user names their AP “mY$up3RuNh@ckAbl3AcC3SSp01nT“?  Sure, that makes for a great password but it’s not going to stop anyone from cracking your 64-bit WEP encryption.  What it will do, is cause me frustration while typing and hassle while copying/pasting.

Customize Your Ubuntu MOTD

There was once a time when I was enthralled with Linux; Building Gentoo from scratch, customizing every possible configuration for optimization,  compiling binaries and such. I’d spent hours perfecting my ANSI MOTD using carefully placed escape sequences. It was beautiful.

But the novelty wears, and as I fell to the dark side of precompiled binaries, my motivation toward fancy MOTDs waned as well. Here I will show you a simple method of presenting colorful ANSI logos at login in Ubuntu.