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Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example).
Uses a Google API.
It works as a method applicated to a variable, converts the string variable into an array
The function will take a comma separated list of items to be 'selected' by xsel -i:
smenu "First item to paste,Paste me #2,Third menu item"
You will then be prompted to choose one of the menu items. After you choose, you will be able to paste the string by clicking the middle mouse button.
The menu will keep prompting you to choose menu items until you break out with Control-C.
Set up X forwarding in PuTTY, with X display location set to :0.0
Launch PuTTY ssh session.
Launch Xming. Make sure that display is set to :0.0 (this is default).
echo "I'm going to paste this into WINDERS XP" | xsel -i
will insert the string into the windows cut and paste buffer.
Thanks to Dennis Williamson at stackoverflow.com for sharing...
Use find to recursively make a list of all files from the current directory and downwards. The files have to have an extension of the ones listed. Then for every file found, grep it for 'searchString', returns the filename if searchString is found.
Your IP is resolved by OpenDns Server (like a caller ID telephone, every server knows who is calling ;-)
Change user:password by yours
Be Happy
Bash has a great history system of its commands accessed by the ! built-in history expansion operator (documented elsewhere on this site or on the web). You can combine the ! operator inside the process redirection
Very handy.
Get your weather from a weather station just blocks from your home. Go to http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/ and find a weather station near you. Click on a temperature bubble for that area. When the window pops up, click on hypertext link with the station ID, then on the bottom right of the page, click on the Current Conditions XML. Thats your link! Good luck!
I absolutely love this website, and appreciate every contribution. This is the first place I go when I'm stuck, you all have some great ideas. But contributions seem to be slipping a little. If all of us could contribute more code from time to time, this site would be absolutely incredible. Since I'm a relative newcomer to commandline-fu, I don't have the knowledge to contribute much, but I will do what I can.
The Washington DC Metro area is not accustomed to getting large snow storms...
Just how much space are those zillions of database logs taking up ? How much will you gain on a compression rate of say 80% ? This little line gives you a good start for your calculations.
Prompts the user for username and password, that are then exported to http_proxy for use by wget, yum etc
Default user, webproxy and port are used.
Using this script prevent the cleartext user and pass being in your bash_history and on-screen
Works recusivley in the specified dir or '.' if none given.
Repeatedly calls 'find' to find a newer file, when no newer files exist you have the newest.
In this case 'newest' means most recently modified. To find the most recently created change -newer to -cnewer.