for loop with spaces

I used to use a "for"-loop over a result of a `cat file` in order to apply on each line. But this does not work very well with spaces... Therefore I looked for a better solution which I kept forgetting. The trick is to use the "read command a in the example below:

find ... | while read -r dir
do
    something with "$dir"
done

Useful to open firefox files under cygwin

I use cygwin extensively under windows. So I often need to open urls in firefox or in some other client. I finally found a was to implement this with simple alias and a bash function. It took me sometimes, but I guess or hope I learnt some thing.

You only need to put this in the .bashrc file or equivalent.

alias firefox='defCommand "/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Mozilla\
Firefox/firefox.exe"'

function defCommand(){
  PARAM=`cygpath -m $2`
  NEW_COMMAND="$1 file:$PARAM";
  eval $NEW_COMMAND
}

Script and scriptreplay for recording and replaying a bash session

http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/279/record-the-terminal-session-and-replay-later/ is a page explaining the use of script and scriptreplay in order to record a bash session and play it again. I really find this very useful, though I do not really use it very often. But perhaps using this tutorial, I will manage to use it.