Who does not like Dropbox? Even Google wants a share of Dropbox users and finally launched Google Drive. Dropbox gives freedom to our files from the desktop and gives life to be everywhere, on your mobile, on your tablet, on your desktop, and in the cloud. In MacOS X/Linux by default Dropbox creates the “Dropbox” […]
How to Find Where Linux/Mac OS X Commands Are Physically Located?
If you are a beginner it is a good thing to learn about the director/file structures of Linux/Mac OS. It is even better to start learning where the actually commands are located in your machine. You may roughly know that the commands are in some “bin” directory, but not the exact location. The command “type” […]
Understanding Variables in Shell Scripting
A number of beautiful and powerful programming languages, like Python, Ruby, and Perl are available for scripting needs. Even then you may find the old school unix shell scripting very useful tool to learn and use. For sure, shell scripts looks crazy and hard to read/understand. Once you get a hang of it, you might […]
Mastering Lists in Python Using List Comprehensions
Ever faced the problem of creating a unique lists in Python? or Accessing only specific elements of lists in Python? Python’s “List Comprehensions” offers you the immense power to create and use lists. Here is a brief introduction to understand and getting started on using List Comprehensions in Python. Python’s List Comprehensions Example 1 The […]
Getting Started With Map, Filter, and Reduce in Python
Python has a couple of nice built-in function in the flavor of functional programming paradigm. These built-in functions like map, filter, and apply combine very well with lambda functions. Map, filer, and reduce help you create, work with and tame lists in Python. For example sure, at some point you will have to deal with […]