Dircmp in Linux

Hi all

For who as me came from unix world, dircmp is a very powerful command.
In Linux, in later versions, there is a form to compare recursively directories using command diff,
in this way :

diff -q -r ./dir1 ./dir2

Using this two options of diff command :


       -q  --brief
              Output only whether files differ.

       -r  --recursive
              Recursively compare any subdirectories found.

The result is similar at dircmp in unix.

Stay tuned.

Vim : An Indentation Problem

Hi all

Today a little big problem.
Every time that i copy and past every thing on vim session i have an indentation problem, for example :

1) I want copy this :

Pippo
Pluto
Paperino
Topolino

2) After a copy result is this :

Pippo
         Pluto
                Paperino
                         Topolino                 

Solution ?????
A simple "set paste" can resolve this hateful problem.

Stay tuned.

Substring variable length record with awk.

The daily problem is this : I must print from third field to end of all records in a file where fields are separated from Tab character.

To resolve this problem i use awk in this way :

cat | awk -F" " '{ printf "%s\n",substr($0,index($0,$3)) }'

Where in -F awk option I specify tab character, and I use substr with index function of third field in each record read.

Stay tuned.