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Replace the word 'war' to word 'peace' in every file in the current directory.
0sed -i -e 's/war/peace/g' * -
It uses curl --url-encode to encode long URLs *properly* and parses XML with xmlstarlet. If ~/.bitlyrc were to contain login:apikey then a script could read the apiKey and login from ~/.bitlyrc like so: login=$(sed 's/:.*//' < $HOME/.bitlyrc) apikey=$(sed 's/[^:]*://' < $HOME/.bitlyrc) curl -s --data-urlencode 'longUrl='$1 --data-urlencode 'login='$login --data-urlencode 'apiKey='$apikey 'http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&format=xml' | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m "//shortUrl" -v "." | line Show Sample Output
0curl -s --data-urlencode 'longUrl='$1 --data-urlencode 'login='$login --data-urlencode 'apiKey='$apikey 'http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&format=xml' | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m "//shortUrl" -v "." | line -
Instead of typing "cd ../../.." you can type ".. 3". For extremely lazy typists, you can add this alias: alias ...=".. 2" ....=".. 3" - so now you can write just .... !!! NB the .. function needs to be "source"d or included in your startup scripts, perhaps .bashrc.
4function ..(){ for ((j=${1:-1},i=0;i<j;i++));do builtin cd ..;done;} -
1lame -V2 rec01.wav rec01.mp3
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This command will set bash as the default shell for all users in a FreeBSD system.
6cd /usr/home && for i in *;do chsh -s bash $i;done -
Route output to notify-send to show nice messages on the desktop, e.g. title and interpreter of the current radio stream
2echo 'Desktop SPAM!!!' | while read SPAM_OUT; do notify-send "$SPAM_OUT"; done -
When you run an X program from a terminal you can see any errors. But when it's run from another X program (eg from a menu item, from your fluxbox 'keys' file etc) it might just die and you see nothing (except perhaps in .xsession-errors). Instead, launch it via this command and you'll see the termination status, stderr and stdout. eg: "xlaunch firefox" or "xlaunch 'echo stdout; echo stderr >&2; false'": 'echo stdout; echo stderr >&2; false' failed with error 1 STDERR: stderr STDOUT: stdout
1xlaunch(){ T=/tmp/$$;sh -c "$@" >$T.1 2>$T.2;S=$?;[ $S -ne 0 ]&&{ echo -e "'$@' failed with error $S\nSTDERR:\n$(cat $T.2)\nSTDOUT:\n$(cat $T.1)\n"|xmessage -file -;};rm -f $T.1 $T.2;} -
This creates a persistent ssh -i /path/to/key -ND local-IP:PORT User@Server connection. You may have to install autossh. -f puts in daemon mode. if you are having trouble, try it without -f.
4autossh -f -i /path/to/key -ND local-IP:PORT User@Server -
i spent way too many hours trying to fiddle with /etc/X11/xorg.conf trying to hook up various external projectors. too bad i didn't know this would solve all my problems.
8xrandr --auto -
mounts an ISO file to a directory on the target file system
6mount -o loop -t iso9660 my.iso /mnt/something -
This is the 140 character long new year's countdown timer that was posted to the climagic account on twitter and identi.ca. There are saner ways of doing this of course, but probably none of those would fit. Uses the figlet command, but of course you can replace figlet with just echo if you want. Show Sample Output
6while V=$((`date +%s -d"2010-01-01"`-`date +%s`));do if [ $V == 0 ];then figlet 'Happy New Year!';break;else figlet $V;sleep 1;clear;fi;done -
use '0' and '9' to increase/decrease volume. this is useful on laptops with low speaker volume.
7mplayer dvd:// -softvol -softvol-max 500 -
The command will help to print the location of the pattern. Above command will print all the files which contain variable "$foo" along with line containing that pattern. Specify pattern after "grep"
-1find . -exec grep $foo {} \; -print -
see http://iptraf.seul.org/ for all kinds of documentation and screenshots
4iptraf -
Requires Python; doesn't require a specific server to return your IP.
-11python -c "import socket; s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM); s.connect(('google.com', 80)); print s.getsockname()[0]" -
eliminates "l" and "o" characters change length by changing 'x' here: cut -c 1-x Show Sample Output
-3openssl rand -base64 1000 | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | tr -cd "[:alnum:]" | tr -d "lo" | cut -c 1-8 | pbcopy -
Slightly simpler version of previous sed command that does the same thing. In this case, the output will stop at the command, and the entire command will be terminated as well, instead of proceeding through the whole file.
1command | sed '/regex/q' -
If you gzip an empty file it becomes 20 bytes. Some backup checks i do check to see if the file is greater than zero size (-s flag) but this is no good here. Im sure someone has a better check than me for this? No check to see if file exists before checking it's size.
-2BACKUP_FILE_SIZE=`eval ls -l ${BACKUP_FILE} | awk {'print $5'}`; if [ $BACKUP_FILE_SIZE -le 20 ]; then echo "its empty"; else echo "its not empty"; fi -
6> foobar.txt
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-1truncate foobar.txt
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The original didn't use -print0 which fails on weird file names eg with spaces. The original parsed the output of 'ls -l' which is always a bad idea.
2find dir -size -1024k -type f -print0 | du --files0-from - -bc -
how to finish command or script without any output Show Sample Output
-4read enterKey -
reload a configuration from .bashrc file Show Sample Output
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0curl -s http://icanhazip.com/
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0ifconfig -l | xargs -n1 ipconfig getifaddr 2> /dev/null
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