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split a file by a specific number of lines

Splits the file "my_file" every 500 lines. Will create files called xx01 xx02 and so on. You can change the prefix by using the -f option. Comes in handy for splitting logfiles for example. I am using it for feeding a logfile parser with smaller files instead of one big file (due to performance reasons)
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csplit -k my_file 500 {*}

Bender · 2010-02-13 21:35:54 6
Url Encode

This one uses hex conversion to do the converting and is in shell/sed only (should probably still use the python/perl version).
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uri_escape(){ echo -E "$@" | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g;s/./&\n/g' | while read -r i; do echo $i | grep -q '[a-zA-Z0-9/.:?&=]' && echo -n "$i" || printf %%%x \'"$i" done }

infinull · 2010-02-13 01:39:51 41
Url Encode

Converts reserved characters in a URI to their percent encoded counterparts. Alternate python version: echo "$url" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;print urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip())' Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo "this & that" | perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp;print uri_escape($_),"\n"'
this%20%26%20that

$ echo "this & that" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;print urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip())'
this%20%26%20that
```
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echo "$url" | perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp;print uri_escape($_),"\n"'

eightmillion · 2010-02-13 00:44:48 32
Url Encode
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echo "$@" | sed 's/ /%20/g;s/!/%21/g;s/"/%22/g;s/#/%23/g;s/\$/%24/g;s/\&/%26/g;s/'\''/%27/g;s/(/%28/g;s/)/%29/g;s/:/%3A/g'

matthewbauer · 2010-02-12 23:59:55 42
This allows you to find a string on a set of files recursivly

The -r is for recursive, -F for fixed strings, --include='*.txt' identifies you want all txt files to be search any wildcard will apply, then the string you are looking for and the final * to ensure you go through all files and folders within the folder you execute it. Show Sample Output
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```
maxleonca@lab:~$ grep -rF --include='*.txt' Tel *
apartamentos.txt:Tel?fono de habitaci?n: 2582-0391
apartamentos.txt:Tel?fono del celular: 8815-7608
apartamentos.txt:Tels:
Documents/RubyStart/vendor/rails/railties/doc/guides/source/security.txt:-- _Tell Rails not to put passwords in the log files._
Documents/RubyStart/vendor/railties/doc/guides/source/security.txt:-- _Tell Rails not to put passwords in the log files._
Documents/gutierrez_gongora.txt:Horarios y N?meros de Tel?fono
Documents/gutierrez_gongora.txt:Tel?fonos: 2225-6181 / 8395-5083
```
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grep -rF --include='*.txt' stringYouLookFor *

maxleonca · 2010-02-12 18:07:07 4
Extract URL from SVN working copy

Can be used in a working copy to output the URL (extracted from svn info), or as part of another function, as $(svnurl some/path). Saves a lot of time in my SVN workflow.
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function svnurl() { svn info $1 | egrep '^URL: (.*)' | sed s/URL\:\ //; }

thebuckst0p · 2010-02-12 15:42:54 3
Bold matching string without skipping others
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sed 's/pattern/^[[1m&^[[0m/g'

rmcb · 2010-02-12 14:05:34 3
ffmpeg command that transcodes a MythTV recording for Google Nexus One mobile phone

This command will transcode a MythTV recording. The target device is a Google Nexus One mobile phone. My recordings are from a HDHomerun with Over The Air content. Plays back nicely on the N1.
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ffmpeg -i /var/lib/mythtv/pretty/Chuck20100208800PMChuckVersustheMask.mpg -s 800x480 -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 16000 -r 13 -ab 32000 -aspect 16:9 Chuck20100208800PMChuckVersustheMask.mp4

PLA · 2010-02-12 12:11:02 7
convert a line to a space
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echo $(cat file)

tlacuache · 2010-02-11 19:07:44 6
convert a line to a space

The first version printed: tr: empty string2 The second version printed: sed: -i may not be used with stdin Maybe I misunderstood the orginal problem.
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sed 's/.*/ /'

putnamhill · 2010-02-11 17:45:56 3
Update all packages installed via homebrew

More information about what homebrew is all about: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
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brew update && brew install `brew outdated`

zeroathome · 2010-02-11 12:17:24 8
convert a line to a space
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cat file | tr '\n' ''

bortoelnino · 2010-02-11 07:30:29 8

Geo Weather

This command will determine an individuals local weather, based on their I.P. address. I had to learn a lot about SED and a little about XMLStarlet in order to achieve this. This command is my original work and there is much room for improvement; I look forward to any constructive feedback. Show Sample Output

xmlstarlet fo "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=$(curl -s api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$(curl -s icanhazip.com)... SEE SAMPLE OUTPUT

o0110o · 2010-02-11 06:32:44 5

Create a series of incrementing numbers in vim

given lines of the form 123|XXXX|1000 ... 123|XXXX|1011 each 'XXXX' will be replaced with a serial number between 0001 and 0004. Show Sample Output
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```
123|XXXX|1000
123|XXXX|1001
123|XXXX|1010
123|XXXX|1011
---
123|0001|1000
123|0002|1001
123|0003|1010
123|0004|1011
```
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:.,$!perl -pne 'for $i ("0001".."0004"){ s/XXXX/$i/ if($i == $.) }'

bartonski · 2010-02-11 03:56:26 8
Get Google Reader unread count

Get Google Reader unread count from the command line. You'll have to define your auth token with $auth Or use: curl -s -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$(curl -sd "Email=$email&Passwd=$password&service=reader" https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin | grep Auth | sed 's/Auth=$.*$/\1/')" "http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?output=json" | tr '{' '\n' | sed 's/.*"count":$[0-9]*$,".*/\1/' | grep -E ^[0-9]+$ | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/$.*$+/\1\n/' | bc Show Sample Output
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```
33
```
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curl -s -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$auth" "http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?output=json" | tr '{' '\n' | sed 's/.*"count":$[0-9]*$,".*/\1/' | grep -E ^[0-9]+$ | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/$.*$+/\1\n/' | bc

matthewbauer · 2010-02-11 00:42:57 7
Clean way of re-running bash startup scripts.

This replaces the current bash session with a new bash session, run as an interactive non-login shell... useful if you have changed /etc/bash.bashrc, or ~/.bashrc If you have changed a startup script for login shells, use exec bash -l Suitable for re-running /etc/profile, ~/.bash_login and ~/.profile. edit: chinmaya points out that env - HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM bash -s "exec bash -l" will clear any shell variables which have been set... since this verges on unwieldy, might want to use alias bash_restart='env - HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM bash -s "exec bash -l"'
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exec bash

bartonski · 2010-02-10 18:51:26 18
split a multi-page PDF into separate files

Simple alternative to the previous submitted one
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pdftk in.pdf burst

rodolfoap · 2010-02-10 13:31:36 15
split a multi-page PDF into separate files

Have to do this once per output file, because if device is 'pdfwrite', even if 'gs' sees '%d' in the OutputFile it still only creates one single output file. Embed it into a simple shell script if you want to split a document out into one file for every page.
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gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=2 -dLastPage=2 -sOutputFile=page2.pdf multipageinputfile.pdf

drewbenn · 2010-02-10 08:48:48 4
List users with running processes

This is different that `who` in that who only cares about logged-in users running shells, this command will show all daemon users and what not; also users logged in remotely via SSH but are running SFTP/SCP only and not a shell. Show Sample Output
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```
avahi
dbus
hal
mark
mysql
```
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ps aux | sed -n '/USER/!s/$[^ ]$ .*/\1/p' | sort -u

infinull · 2010-02-10 05:56:26 5

Get the weather forecast for the next 24 to 48 for your location.

This shell function grabs the weather forecast for the next 24 to 48 hours from weatherunderground.com. Replace <YOURZIPORLOCATION> with your zip code or your "city, state" or "city, country", then calling the function without any arguments returns the weather for that location. Calling the function with a zip code or place name as an argument returns the weather for that location instead of your default. To add a bit of color formatting to the output, use the following instead: weather(){ curl -s "http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-<YOURZIPORLOCATION>}"|perl -ne '/<title>([^<]+)/&&printf "\x1B[0;34m%s\x1B[0m: ",$1;/<fcttext>([^<]+)/&&print $1,"\n"';} Requires: perl, curl Show Sample Output

weather(){ curl -s "http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-<YOURZIPORLOCATION>}"|perl -ne '/<title>([^<]+)/&&printf "%s: ",$1;/<fcttext>([^<]+)/&&print $1,"\n"';}

eightmillion · 2010-02-10 01:23:39 16

Function to split a string into an array
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Split() { SENT=${*} ; sentarry=( ${SENT} ) ; while [[ ${#sentarry[@]} -gt 0 ]] ; do printf "%s\n" "${sentarry[0]}" ; sentarry=( ${sentarry[@]:1} ) ; done ; }

unixhome · 2010-02-09 20:32:56 3
get detailed info about a lan card on HP-UX 11.31
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nwmgr -q info -c lan0

jreypo · 2010-02-09 16:19:18 3
Extend a logical volume to use up all the free space in a volume group
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lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

bortoelnino · 2010-02-09 07:06:54 8
Weather on the Command line

Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example). Uses a Google API. Show Sample Output
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35
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curl -s "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=New%20York" | sed 's|.*<temp_f data="$[^"]*$"/>.*|\1|'

matthewbauer · 2010-02-08 23:06:48 5
Function to split a string into an array

It works as a method applicated to a variable, converts the string variable into an array Show Sample Output
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```
Example usage :
$ TEST="jhfz:lkhf :lhf:h0258:r"
$ Split TEST ":"
$ echo ${TEST[@]}
"jhfz" "lkhf " "lhf" "h0258" "r"
```
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Split() { eval "$1=( \"$(echo "${!1}" | sed "s/$2/\" \"/g")\" )"; }

frans · 2010-02-08 17:41:59 5
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