Quite frequently, I reach for a combo of find and cd. Here is how to do it using a single command.
Let’s create a bunch of nested directories, just for the sake of the exercise:
mkdir -p x/y/z
Result:
tree x x └── y └── z
Suppose I want to locate the y directory and cd to it:
cd "$(find x -name y)"
Similarly, I might want to locate a text file and open it in my favourite editor:
cd ~ touch x/y/z/test.txt vi "$(find x -name test.txt)"
Up till now I have not come across that many projects that would truly conform to the principles of Test Driven Development. Once again, I found myself in an unenviable situation of introducing unit tests to a code which had been released to production a long time ago, completely untouched by any kind of test…
There are several great articles giving advice on how to handle multiple GitHub accounts. The one I liked in particular has a pretty self-explanatory title: Automatically use correct SSH key for remote Git repo I value the article for two main reasons: It helped me solve my problem with the authentication agent It gave me an idea of…
Here is a list of hot keys I frequently use in Netbeans and their equivalents in IntelliJ and Eclipse. All of them are customizable, what follows are default settings. Function Netbeans IntelliJ Eclipse Debug File Ctrl + Shift + F5 Alt + Shift + F9 Alt + Shift + D Find in Projects Ctrl +…
When you are managing a multi-module Gradle project, more often than not you’d want to share certain dependencies across different modules. This is particularly true for test dependencies. You can achieve this by defining common dependencies in the root build file and applying them to all subprojects. However, a problem often encountered is the dreaded Unresolved reference: testImplementation error. This blog post suggests a simple trick that resolves the issue. Give it a go and happy testing ever after!
Advanced password policy is one of the most coveted features an LDAP server has to offer. Yet, dealing with it programmatically is not as straightforward as one could imagine. The purpose of this post is to provide a simple guideline of how to manage a custom password policy on the OpenLDAP server via Spring. Originally,…
The title says it all, one cannot make use of method overloading when working with Endpoints. Not a big deal one might think. Well, as usual, it depends. To me, method overloading is a feature I appreciate, since it allows for a great naming consistency and promotes polymorphism, one of the major deals with OOP….