Srini's Point of View

My thoughts on technology, food and other fancies…

Tips on unix find

Here is a nice tip on unix find..

$ find . cpio -pdumv /path/to/destination/dir

the files found by find are passed into cpio and it copies the files with the same permissions to the destination directory.

kolumbi fry

I finally found my kolumbi fry recipe. If anybody has been following my blog, I had earlier written about my quest for this recipe I had tried. Read here for details if you havn’t read it before. Yesterday I got a great deal for shrimp at my local grocery …

Chicken Chettinaad

Ingredients:

  • Chicken
  • Onions - Chopped
  • Tomatoes - Chopped
  • Whole red chilly - 4 stalks
  • Whole black pepper - 10 seeds
  • Coriander seeds – 1 tsp
  • Grated coconut – ½ cup
  • Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
  • Green cardamom – 3-4
  • Cloves – 3-4
  • Cinnamon sticks - 1
  • Aniseeds – 1 tsp
  • Poppy seeds - 1 tsp
  • Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves …

linux tip on tar

If you untar a package, and it makes a mess of your directory because the packager didn’t include the files in his tarball in a directory, you can use

$ rm `tar ftz package.tar.gz`

to quickly get rid of those cluttering files.

$ rm `tar ft package.tar`

does …

mutton rogan josh, keema matar

its rough ..have to fare it
mutton rogan josh
ingredients—- mutton-500gms
fat-30 gms, onions-155 gms
ginger-15 gms, garlic, 5 gms, turmeric 1 tea spn, coriander pwdr- 15 gms
red chilli pwdr-10 gms, tomatoes 155gms , salt to taste, garam masala, green coriander leaves
method.——-cut mutton into small pieces, grind masala …