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Wow, didn't really expect you to read this far down. The latest iteration of the site is in open beta. It's a gentle open beta-- not in prime-time just yet. It's being hosted over at UpGuard (link) and you are more than welcome to give it a shot. Couple things:
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Terminal - All commands - 12,361 results
Another combination of seq and awk. Not very efficient, but sufficiently quick.
"seq 100" outputs 1,2,..,100, separated by newlines. awk adds them up and displays the sum.
"seq 1 2 11" outputs 1,3,..,11.
Variations:
1+3+...+(2n-1) = n^2
seq 1 2 19 | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}' # displays 100
1/2 + 1/4 + ... = 1
seq 10 | awk '{sum+=1/(2**$1)} END {print sum}' # displays 0.999023
Leading zeros might help correct sorting and they can be removed by sed after sorting
Does not necessarily require a file to process, it can be used in a pipe as well:
cat filename | sed -e :a -e 's/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta'
I don't remember where I copy/pasted this from, I wish I credited the original author
Replace < pw-length > with the desired password-length.
The password-length is not always correct, but wayne...
-N removes header
-s removes separator chars
-r raw output
After using these options, the MySQL ouptut can be used with pipes very easily
Most people know that you can run a PHP script from the command line like so:
php ./my_script.php
But sometimes I just want to run a quick bit of code, the PHP Command Line Interface allows me to do so with the -r option.
Requires package php5-cli
Useful to detect number of tabs in an empty line, DOS newline (carriage return + newline).
A tool that can help you understand why your parsing is not working.
man -t manpagename gives a postscript version of said man page. You then pipe it to ls, and assuming you have cups set up, it prints in your default printer.
The file .my.cnf located at user's home directory is used for mysql login. If this file exists, then
mysql -uYOURUSERNAME -pYOURPASSWORD database -e 'SOME SQL COMMAND'
can be replaced with
mysql database -e 'SOME SQL COMMAND'
It saves you from typing!
This is valid for mysqladmin and mysqldump commands as well.
I needed to get a feel for how "old" different websites were, based on their directories.
Xsane produces PDFs that are too large - particularly multipage PDFs. This command compresses them. If you do not use A4, remove the -sPAPERSIZE flag.
I recently found myself with a filesystem I couldn't write to and a bunch of files I had to get the hell out of dodge, preferably not one at a time. This command makes it possible to pack a bunch of files into a single archive and write it to a remote server.