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new mail alert in bash prompt


Bash has a mailcheck feature supposed to warn you whenever you received a new mail. This use the $MAIL, $MAILCHECK and $MAILPATH environment variables. I had many problems with this. Most of the time, it only warns me on login, and sometimes not at all, making it quite unreliable.This article discusses a simple way to include a check for new mails directly in the bash prompt.


link / alias tables in mysql


This article discusses the way to make a table point to another in mysql.