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This will send the web page at $u to recipient@example.com . To send the web page to oneself, recipient@example.com can be replaced by $(whoami) or $USER. The "charset" is UTF-8 here, but any alternative charset of your choice would work. `wget -O - -o /dev/null $u` may be considered instead of `curl $u` . On some systems the complete path to sendmail may be necessary, for instance /sys/pkg/libexec/sendmail/sendmail for some NetBSD.
-1{ u="http://twitter.com/commandlinefu"; echo "Subject: $u"; echo "Mime-Version: 1.0"; echo -e "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n"; curl $u ; } | sendmail $USER -
0hdiutil burn foo.iso
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-2wodim foo.iso
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You don't want the -ar parameters in this case. The man page for BASH_BUILTINS(1) states: "-a option means to remove or mark all jobs" and "-r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs" In this case we are supplying the process id of the job to disown so neither of these should be used.
-2echo "Starting Daemon"; ( while :; do sleep 15; echo "I am still running =]"; done ) & disown -h $! -
Sometimes you only want to linsten the audio while output the video will be a waste of CPU resource and an annoying window. With option -vo null, you will enjoy the audio!
9mplayer -vo null something.mpg -
displays the output of ls -l without the rest of the crud. pretty simple but useful.
2lsli() { ls -l --color "$@" | awk '{ for(i=9;i<NF;i++){ printf("%s ",$i) } printf("%s\n",$NF) }'; } -
1find . -name .svn -exec rm -r {} +;
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-8ls -RAx | grep "svn:$" | sed -e "s/svn:/svn/" | xargs rm -fr
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Recursively remove .svn directories from the current location.
-2rm -rf `find . -name .svn` -
1wodim -v speed=4 dev='/dev/scd0' foo.iso
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Audio convert is a script that uses zenity and lame to transcode virtually any format to any other format provided you have the libraries installed to do so.
1audio-convert <dir>/* -
-3ls *.wav | while read f; do lame "$f" -o "$(echo $f | cut -d'.' -f1)".mp3; done;
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Sometimes you have a script that needs and inputfile for execution. If you don't want to create one because it may contain only one line you can use the `
mysql -uuser -ppass dbname < <(echo "SELECT * FROM database;")This can be very usefull when working with mysql as I showed in the example code above. This will create a temporary file that is used to execute mysql and for example select all entrys from a specific database.9any_script.sh < <(some command) -
-f file(s) to be monitorized -n number of last line to be printed on the screen in this example, the content of two files are displayed
5tail -n 50 -f /var/log/apache2/access_log /var/log/apache2/error_log -
bs = buffer size (basically defined the size of a "unit" used by count and skip) count = the number of buffers to copy (16m * 32 = 1/2 gig) skip = (32 * 2) we are grabbing piece 3...which means 2 have already been written so skip (2 * count) i will edit this later if i can to make this all more understandable
2dd if=inputfile of=split3 bs=16m count=32 skip=64 -
Displays only the subtotal size of a directory with the -s option, and in human readable format. Show Sample Output
-5du -sh some/directory -
2cdrecord -v speed=4 driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/scd0 cd.iso
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2xmlstarlet sel -N x="http://purl.org/net/ulf/ns/0.4-02" -T -t -m "//x:message" -v "concat(substring(@time,12,5),' < ',@sender,'>', ' ',.)" -n
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We don't use CPU scaling, but just in case you do, there is something interesting to note. If you look at the /proc/cpuinfo, the speed listed is current running speed of the processors and not the real speed of the chip. Show Sample Output
2awk -F": " '/cpu MHz\ */ { print "Processor (or core) running speed is: " $2 }' /proc/cpuinfo ; dmidecode | awk -F": " '/Current Speed/ { print "Processor real speed is: " $2 }' -
the command is obvious, I know, but maybe not everyone knows that using the parameter "-l" you can limit the use of bandwidth command scp. In this example fetch all files from the directory zutaniddu and I copy them locally using only 10 Kbs
11scp -l10 pippo@serverciccio:/home/zutaniddu/* . -
1SITE="www.google.com"; curl --silent "http://www.shadyurl.com/create.php?myUrl=$SITE&shorten=on" | awk -F\' '/is now/{print $6}'
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man dmidecode [look for type] Show Sample Output
10dmidecode -t 17 | awk -F":" '/Speed/ { print $2 }' -
when someone mail you his ssh public key, and the lines are broken with '\n', you can reconstruct a new file with one key by line with this command. Show Sample Output
0cat authorized_keys_with_broken_lines | sed 's,^ssh,%ssh,' | tr '\n' '\0' | tr '%' '\n' | sed '1d' | sed "/^$/d" > authorized_keys -
4/usr/sbin/dmidecode | grep -i "current speed"
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Quit Kill Restart Plasma whenever it is hung!
0kbuildsycoca4 && kquitapp plasma-desktop && kstart plasma-desktop - ‹ First < 397 398 399 400 401 > Last ›
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