Restore file permissions

I didn't test it but it must work for owners and owner groups too. Something like:

Find a directory by name in linux

-type d == directory
-name '.svn' == all directories named .svn
-ls == converts unusual characters to C style escape sequences

To delete the list of directories returned by the above command execute xargs builds and executes command lines from standard input
/bin/rm -dr == remove command with the directory and recursive flags

Group Sticky bit

To ensure that the group owner of existing and new files stays the same set the group sticky bit like so:

top - you should use u

I was looking at tops output to observe apache, and was thinking to myself how useful it would be to just go ahead and filter by user, and well...turns out that I should have thought of this years ago (RTFM?): while viewing top, just press u, now enter desired user, hit enter and be amazed ;-)

Know thy vim!

Real short post! If you use vim, check this out:

Using VIM color schemes with putty

My eyes are always grateful if I can spare them terrible color schemes. The other day I stumbled on what seemed to be a really nice color scheme called wombat, so I decided to allot five minutes of my time to quickly change the color scheme...or so I thought ;-)

Turns out that when using putty, not all colors are available, and most good looking vim color schemes will not work. After googling, I found that someone has converted the theme for 88 and 256 color xterms. So I downloaded that one too. Surely, now it would work, right?

Well, almost, after some more googling, I finally found the solution. In your vimrc file, simply add the following line

and presto, now you can use the wombat256 theme ;-)