If the username includes an @ you can use this one:

wget -r --user=username_here --password=pass_here ftp://ftp.example.com

If run in bash, this will display all executables that are in your current $PATH

Run this in the directory you store your music in.

mp3gain and vorbisgain applies the ReplayGain normalization routine to mp3 and ogg files (respectively) in a reversible way.

ReplayGain uses psychoacoustic analysis to make all files sound about the same loudness, so you don't get knocked out of your chair by loud songs after cranking up the volume on quieter ones.

I'm sure this can be piped into another way. Please share!

I used this when I had a directory of movies from a camera. I wanted to watch a little of each movie, then rename it depending on what was in the movie. This did the trick for me.

Listen to different voices in the system--useful for picking the voice you like

cd into the directory that contains the file.

this is just the usual move command but shortcut'd.

say you wanted to move a photo img1.png from ~/photos/holidayphotos into the parent directory which is ~/photos

command would be:

~/photos/holidayphotos$ mv img1.png ..

I use Ubuntu so this'll work in debian but not sure what else.

I put that line in my .bash_profile (OS X) and .bashrc (Linux).

Here is a summary of what the \char means: n=new line, u=user name, h=host, !=history number, w=current work directory

The \[\e[32m\] sequence set the text to bright green and \[\e[0m\] returns to normal color.

For more information on what you can set in your bash prompt, google 'bash prompt'

Recursively removes all those hidden .DS_Store folders starting in current working directory.

Swap TRUE with FALSE to turn it off again. Note: Finder must be relaunched afterwards to see the effect. For example like this:

Sometimes I need to create a directory of files to operate on to test out some commandlinefu I am cooking up. The main thing is the range ({1..N}) expansion.

even when another instance is already open.

Great for testing purposes when you need

to be 2 people at once on the same site.

the good:

Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.4 with Suhosin-Patch

the bad:

Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

and the ugly:

Server: Apache/2.2.10 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.6

This is the result of a several week venture without X. I found myself totally happy without X (and by extension without flash) and was able to do just about anything but watch YouTube videos... so this a the solution I came up with for that. I am sure this can be done better but this does indeed work... and tends to work far better than YouTube's ghetto proprietary flash player ;-)

Replace $i with any YouTube ID you want and this will scrape the site for the _real_ URL to the full quality .FLV file on Youtube's server and will then will hand that over to mplayer (or vlc or whatever you want) to be streamed.

In some browsers you can replace $i with just a % or put this in a shell script so all YouTube IDs can be handed directly off to your media player of choice for true streaming without the need for Flash or a downloader like clive. (I do however fully recommend clive if you wish to archive videos instead of streaming them)

If any interest is shown I would be more than happy to provide similar commands for other sites. Most streaming flash players use similar logic to YouTube.

Edit: 05/03/2011 -

Updated line to work with current YouTube. It could be a lot prettier but I will probably follow up with another update when I figure out how to get rid of that pesky Grep. Sed should take that syntax... but it doesn't.

Original (no longer working) command:

mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?$(curl -s $youtube_url | sed -n "/watch_fullscreen/s;.*\(video_id.\+\)&title.*;\1;p")")

This command lets you see and scroll through all of the strings that are stored in the RAM at any given time. Press space bar to scroll through to see more pages (or use the arrow keys etc).

Sometimes if you don't save that file that you were working on or want to get back something you closed it can be found floating around in here!

The awk command only shows lines that are longer than 20 characters (to avoid seeing lots of junk that probably isn't "human readable").

If you want to dump the whole thing to a file replace the final '| less' with '> memorydump'. This is great for searching through many times (and with the added bonus that it doesn't overwrite any memory...).

Here's a neat example to show up conversations that were had in pidgin (will probably work after it has been closed)...

(depending on sudo settings it might be best to run

first to get to a # prompt)

only for sudo-style systems.

Use this construct instead of I/O re-directors ``>'' or ``>>'' because

sudo only elevates the commands and *not* the re-directors.

***warning: remember that the `tee` command will clobber

file contents unless it is given the ``-a'' argument

Also, for extra security, the "left" command is still run unprivileged.

using `cat` under *NIX - just because you help manage M$ Windoze

*doesn't* mean you should have to resort to using it!

You can also make custom win32 installers with the 7zip "extras" package:

[re]verify those burned CD's early and often - better safe than sorry -

at a bare minimum you need the good old `dd` and `md5sum` commands,

but why not throw in a super "user-friendly" progress gauge with the `pv` command -

adjust the ``-s'' "size" argument to your needs - 700 MB in this case,

and capture that checksum in a "test.md5" file with `tee` - just in-case for near-future reference.

*uber-bonus* ability - positively identify those unlabeled mystery discs -

for extra credit, what disc was used for this sample output?

simple find and exec example

Many like to use 'dd' for creating CD/DVD iso images. This is bad. Very bad. The reason this is, is 'dd' doesn't have any built-in error checking. So, you don't know if you got all the bits or not. As such, it is not the right tool for the job. Instead, 'reaom' (read optical media) from the wodim package is what you should be using. It has built-in error checking. Similarly, if you want to burn your newly creating ISO, stay away from 'dd', and use: