sprignaturemoves

I use Google Reader…a lot.  It’s really where I read most things on the web.

I share articles I find interesting.  My shared items get automatically get sucked into Facebook and into Twitter (via Twitterfeed).  I star content to revisit at some point.  I e-mail things I think people might find helpful.

Regarding e-mailed items, it’s annoying that those e-mailed items don’t get filed under your Gmail sent-items. There is a remedy, however. Google has several special URLs for accessing all sorts of interactions that you’ve made. Here’s the or viewing posts that you’ve e-mailed:

http://www.google.com/reader/view/user/-/state/com.google/tracking-emailed

You can find the entire list here.

Here’s my shared item feed, if you’d like to subscribe.

Find one of many strings in a set of files
grep -E "str1|str2|str" file*.*

Search through files with multiple file extensions
grep -r --include=\*.{html,php,htm} str /path/to/directory/to/grep

Search through files with multiple extensions with one find command
find -name "*.jsp" -o -name "*.java" | xargs grep -i "whee"

Search through files with multiple extensions with one find command, regex method
find -regex ".*\(\.jsp\|\.php\|\.html\|\.htm\).*" | xargs grep -i "whee"

Replace newlines with HTML breaks in a file
sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\/g' file.txt

Rename multiple files
for f in *.txt; do mv "$f" "${f%.txt}.bak"; done

Directory sizes here and below
du -sm $(find $1 -type d -maxdepth 1 -xdev) | sort -g

Find files containing between 600 to 700 characters, inclusive.
find . -size +599c -and -size -701c

Update a file’s timestamp, but do not create files
touch -c file*.txt

My man Irfan is still kicking image butt.

You can download the new version of Irfanview here.

Yeah, well that was fun while it lasted.  I’m back to using Google Desktop.

What I liked about the indexing flexibility of Locate32 is now out the window.  The path to get to what I need to get to is just not easy enough.  I’m used to using Launchy.  I can’t start Locate32 with Launchy and search for a Word Document that contains the phrase “whee” without clicking.

I also thought Xobni might be nice for searching Outlook e-mail.  It’s fine, but it’s, I don’t know….too much.  The contact analytics is cool, but I don’t need it.  I know who I e-mail the most, etc.