Where to put libraries in python ?  Follow any of the following approach.

1. Current working directory

2. Set 'PYTHONLIB' environment variable at command line shell

3. In your script, do
    import sys
  sys.path.append(<directory location>)

4. Put in Python specific default lib locations. 
    e.g. /usr/lib/python3.3 

5. Create <anyname>.pth file with list of directory abs paths separated by new line. Where each path contains location of library files.

   import site
   site.addsitedir('/some/dir/you/want/on/the/path')

  

variable scope rule in python

variable scopes in python:
For a variable, python interpreter will access/search it starting from Local scope.
If it is not found in local scope, it will check in Enclosing defs as per following order.


L (local)
 -> E (enclosing def or lamba)
        -> G (global)
              -> B (built in)

import module vs ( from module import name1)

in python, statement like this one:

from module import name1, name2  # Copy these two names out (only)



is equivalent to this statement sequence:

import module                     # Fetch the module object
name1 = module.name1      # Copy names out by assignment
name2 = module.name2
del module

>> It means python interpreter will load entire module even if you want only few attributes of module.

Linux command line history. Using CTRL + R to execute the commands from your history.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/08/15-examples-to-master-linux-command-line-history/

bulk rename

It's very simple command, but I never used before [I was going to write a script for this req. :)]

[mandy@mandy mpix]$ ls *20121031000012*
mp1_20121031000012.txt  mp2_20121031000012.txt  mp3_20121031000012.txt

[mandy@mandy mpix]$ rename "20121031000012" "20121031000013" *20121031000012.txt

[mandy@mandy mpix]$ ls *20121031000013*
mp1_20121031000013.txt  mp2_20121031000013.txt  mp3_20121031000013.txt

Dealing with images??, get ImageMagick

I am using and playing a lot with the images in my current project. It involves heavy dealing with png's, jpg's and gif's like: merging, cutting, re-scaling and stuff.

There is a very cool library to deal with all these things : ImageMagick.

You can do pretty much anything with this.

You have extension available for PHP for imagemagick named as Imagick.( Perl also have an extension).

This could be a very good start if you are interested:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/

MySQL Security Best Practices

Very useful link for MySQL Security:

http://www.greensql.com/articles/mysql-security-best-practices

How to write perl shell.

[root@manas ~]cat /tmp/perl_shell
#!/usr/bin/perl

my($output);
do {
    $output = eval;
    if($output =~ /^\s*$/) {
        print "\n$@";
    }
    else {
        print "\n$output";
    }
    print "\nperl_shell>";
} while(<>);


Now you can use perl shell like following :
perl_shell>print "Mandar Pande is a rich man ! "
Mandar Pande is a rich man !

perl_shell>print rand(100)
27.8423844211833

perl_shell>print sqrt(16);
4

simple tab settings in vi/vim

Pretty simple setting ! But I used to forget every time :). 
Python coding would be hell, if this setting is not defined in .vimrc.

set smartindent
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab

Guys, Please continue to update .vimrc settings on this post. 

lftp file transfer in shell script

script uses conf file as an input:

[mandy@mandy mpix]$ cat lftp.sh 
#!/bin/sh
lftp -f lftp.conf

Input file uses open command on port 2121:

[mandy@mandy mpix]$ cat lftp.conf 
open -p 2121 server_name
mput file1
mput file2
mput file3
bye

Remote copy using tar over ssh.

$tar -cvf - <source_content> | ssh <user@hostname> "tar -xvf - -C <where_to_copy>"

where,
-  : tells tar to compress and send output of tar to terminal ( at source )
- : tells tar to accept input from terminal and extract into directory specified by -C.

Observations :
It takes at least 40% of less time than actual scp/rcp takes !!

tar quick ref

List the files from tar:
------------------------

[mandy@mandy mpande]$ tar -tvf mp.tar
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:13:06 20120830000001.txt
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:13:15 20120830000002
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:13:25 20120830000003.txt
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:11:32 3
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:11:34 4
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:11:37 5

List only *2012* files from tar:
--------------------------------

[mandy@mandy mpande]$ tar -tvf mp.tar --wildcards --no-anchored '*2012*'
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:13:06 20120830000001.txt
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:13:15 20120830000002
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:13:25 20120830000003.txt

Extract files with *2012* from tar:
-----------------------------------

[mandy@mandy mpande]$ tar -xvf mp.tar --wildcards --no-anchored '*2012*'
20120830000001.txt
20120830000002
20120830000003.txt

List files excluding certain pattern:
-------------------------------------

[mandy@mandy mpande]$ tar -tvf mp.tar --exclude *2012*
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:11:32 3
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:11:34 4
-rw-r----- mandy/mandy 12 2012-08-30 05:11:37 5

Extract files excluding certain pattern:
----------------------------------------

[mandy@mandy mpande]$ tar -xvf mp.tar --exclude *2012*
3
4
5

Reset MySQL root Password

Hello,

Many times it happens that we do forget the root password for our mysql instance(whether local or on server if you have rights). It also happens, if we start using a system in which mysql was already there and we don't know whats the root login.

Following steps can help in resetting the root password
Note: You must have root privileges or sudo access to execute the commands :)

1) Stop the mysql daemon:
             like: /etc/init.d/mysql stop
2) Start to MySQL server w/o password:
             use skip-grant-tables option while restarting.
3) Connect to mysql server as the root user:
             mysql -u root
4) Setup new mysql root account password i.e. reset mysql password:
             update user set password=PASSWORD("new password") where User='root';
             (we need to enter password in encrypted form, so using password())
5) Exit and restart the MySQL server:
               like: /etc/init.d/mysql restart





Hope this is useful.

Perl smart match operator

Many times, it is very handy to use this operator for comparing arrays, hashes:

use 5.010;

my(@arr_a)=qw (123 abc def ghi);
my(@arr_b)=qw (123 abc def ghi);

print "same2same\n" if (@arr_a ~~ @arr_b);

How to setup yum in RHEL 6.0

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/iso1.repo <-- this name can be anything but in the format *.repo
[iso1.repo]
name=RHEL6
baseurl=ftp://<servername>/<path where repodata directory is available> < ---- [ it means 'repodata' dir should be available in this path ]
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0





==============================================================
Above procedure should be same for other OS.

I haven't ever heard about open source Search Engine kinda thingy...... :P

Came around this:
The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software
Apache Lucene

NOOP operator in Bash:

A standard NOOP Operator in bash is colon ":".

Try out:

: echo test or anything :)

[m@root]$ a=1
[m@root]$ b=2
[m@root]$ c=3
[m@root]$ echo $a; : echo $b ; echo $c
1
3

Thanks,

Kailash Chandak

Reference Counting Garbage Collection and Circular Reference in PERL

Found very good link about Memory Management in PERL:

http://www.perl.com/pub/2002/08/07/proxyobject.html

validate if a file is already opened [in perl]

if(tell(filehandle) != -1)
{
//file is already opened ! [as tell returns -1]
}

How to identify driver for a give network interface card.

$/sbin/ethtool -i eth0

where,

eth0 : Name of Network interface card.