Mohammed Tousif Zaman zamantousif

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Your best teacher is your last mistake

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zamantousif / gist:5fef5f118b58620009d68a7047dfdd07

Created June 5, 2024 07:27

Kill all instances of a program in linux

	# uses pkill to kill the process
	# to echo the PIDs
	# echo $(ps -ef \| grep "some search" \| awk '{print $2}')
	# e.g. to kill every instance of "spotify" app
	for pid in $(ps -ef \| grep "spotify" \| awk '{print $2}'); do pkill -9 $pid; done

zamantousif / gist:c00b0f4c61dcb4141868f4282a7c6b37

Created April 18, 2024 11:58

Choose from all available terminals

	# Choose which terminal to use by default from all available ones
	update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

zamantousif / gist:0a89c56e06bd9087aa4908b2f5ce23ff

Last active April 17, 2024 14:50

Install/update nodejs npm using nodesource API on Ubuntu

	# Check the valid version to install as per your Ubuntu distribution on nodesource github
	# https://github.com/nodesource/distributions?tab=readme-ov-file#ubuntu-versions
	# Run below commands for installing latest available nodejs from nodesource ppa on Ubuntu 22.04 (latest at the time of writing)

	curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_21.x \| sudo -E bash - &&\
	sudo apt-get install -y nodejs


	# If running into dpkg errors, follow the advice here https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/issues/1157#issuecomment-1605699451
	# sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq libnode72:amd64

zamantousif / create_ubuntu_iso.sh

Created July 21, 2023 13:54

Create bootable disk from ubuntu iso

	# Note the correct disk to install the ubuntu OS: e.g. /dev/sdx
	fdisk -l
	# Copy the ISO file to the disk
	sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress oflag=sync
	# Now disk is ready to be used as a bootable drive

zamantousif / example.cpp

Created July 13, 2023 12:48

Eigen library usage

	// When you want to initialize a matrix with const specifier inline use the finished() call
	const double rot = 0.0; // angle in radians
	const Eigen::Matrix3d RotateAboutZAxis =
	(Eigen::Matrix3d(3, 3) << cos(rot), -sin(rot), 0, sin(rot), cos(rot), 0, 0, 0, 1).finished();

zamantousif / gist:3eaed0a561eb399e0c14f5250d09d9b3

Created June 5, 2023 11:51

Manage gcc, g++ using update-alternatives on Linux

	# Follow this advice on managing compiler versions using update-alternatives
	# https://askubuntu.com/questions/26498/how-to-choose-the-default-gcc-and-g-version

	# Below commands allow selecting the default compiler for gcc and g++ from the list of available ones
	sudo update-alternatives --config gcc
	sudo update-alternatives --config g++

zamantousif / install_clang_format.sh

Last active April 3, 2025 12:22

Install clang-format

	# Reference:
	# https://apt.llvm.org/

	# For convenience there is an automatic installation script available that installs LLVM for you.
	# To install the latest stable version:
	bash -c "$(wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh)"

	# To install a specific version of LLVM:
	wget https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh
	chmod +x llvm.sh