well this is something i learned recently and wanted to share it, so maybe it could be useful for someone in a far far place browsing this site which no one visits …

anyway enough BS, lets get into the title

have you ever felt so bored of repeating the same username/password combination to log into some ftp account on that server you keep uploading files to, well if you didn’t i did, and to be truthful i’ve also seen it in some script file on another server the line goes like this “ftp -i ser.ver.add.ress”,so i liked the way you can just type the IP address of the FTP server i you get instant access to it, now here’s how you could do it:

1. what you need is : ftp server,linux machine, user-account on both machines
2. on your linux machine (client) edit (or create if it does not exist) .netrc file in your home directory and put the following code:

machine 1.2.3.4
login user
password thisIsAPassword

where 1.2.3.4 is the ip address of the server and user is your username thisIsAPassword is your password

3. now try typing ftp -i 1.2.3.4 and you should be logged in the ftp server (wow that was easy right)

hope you enjoyed it………….

later

slashdot reports …

i know im late in learning python, but you know what it is said “it’s better late than never”. python is a great scripting language and i wanted to start learning it along time ago, but i think the best way to learn something is by actually using it in something usefull.  last week i had a task to rename some folders, actually it was only a part of the folder name that i have to change , so the task needed some string manipulation and file system access, i know this job could be done using bash and regular expressions , but i thought it is really a good time to give python a try , i opened google and started looking for articles . it didnt took me a lot of time to figure out the script , and the final result was awesome , i  loved it even if it is a small script , i loved the way python combines OOP with scripting capabilities.

The History of linux in a very nice movie

revolution os is one of the best documentaries i’ve seen

enjoy