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Mr Jok (JK, my Bangalore roomie) had sent me one mail to solve this puzzle.“

Hey Crack this…….. Find the next number in the series 1, 2, 6, 21, 88, __?

I found it very lazy to solve first, so used my good friend google and found the answer

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/1_2_6_21_88

Thanks Google.com

Had a call from Vinod (my school friend) this evening and he wanted a script to search through 1000 directories and on a specific file he wanted to do a search and replace of a text of specific pattern. So I came up with one of the most pathetic shell script which I had ever written in my career, containing fix after fixes, at last it went through fine hehehe

for k in `cat dirname`
do
echo $k
if [ -d $k ]; then
cd $k
if [ -f sfile ]
then
echo “ste”
for i in `ls -l sfile | awk ‘{ print $9 }’`
do
sed -e ’s/abc/def/g’ >$PWD/$i $PWD/$i
done
fi
cd ..
fi
done

For newbies who want to work on Unix platform but do not have enough idea on installing Unix OS, here is a simple solution. This is a simple web based interface for trying out simple unix commands. Have fun and enjoy learning unix.

http://cb.vu/

Just sent one forward mail to my office group ID when I was working from home for the second half of the day, see this is what Ehatsham had to say for that…

Ehatsham
ah wht the hell u want to prove that u worked for half day today
Ehatsham
by sending this mail..:)
contactstephen what to do ….. :)
even other wise i would have sent this mail..
that was a good one

P.S - These small happiness are the ones which count much in ones life…

Came across this useful site, this contains useful short cut keys on firefox browser. Have fun while browsing with Mozilla

http://www.jeetblog.com/incredible-firefox-keyboard-shortcuts/