Music Library Convert

Usage

lc Old_Directory New_DIrectory Old_Format New_Format

lc ~/Music ~/Music_ogg mp3 ogg

This will convert all audio files in the old directory to the new directory from the old format to the new format. It will leave the original library alone. The converted library will retain folder structure.

get the size of S3 bucket

Looks best in an 80x24 256-color terminal emulator.

Print a git log (in reverse order) giving a reference relative to HEAD.

HEAD (the current revision) can also be referred to as HEAD~0

The previous revision is HEAD~1 then HEAD~2 etc.

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Add line numbers to the git output, starting at zero:

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Insert the string 'HEAD~' before the number using sed:

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Thanks to bartonski for the idea :-)

This is a good alternative to pdf2text for Ubuntu. To install it:

sudo apt-get install python-pdfminer

pretty self explanitory

This version works on OS X (if you have installed `rename`)

shell order of operation example which calculates:

x = number of physical CPU's

y = number of cores per CPU

2(x * y) + 1 = CPU load limit

seed the random number generator,

find all matches in a file

put all matches from the capture group into an array

return a random element from the array

The only command-line version of this task I could come up with that properly handles UTF-8 input, too. (Yes, I know how crazy it is to have UTF-8 with HTML entity escapes, but that stuff exists... sadly...; Just check Twitter.)

Returns the current price of a troy ounce of gold, in USD. Requires the "jq" JSON parser.

Hold 'Ctrl' + 'Alt' key while selecting rectangular text area of the screen with

left mouse button.

Should work in any terminal screen (xterm, konsole, ...) under X, if not

then try with 'Ctrl' + 'Shift' + 'Alt' or two-combination of these.

I often have to google this so I put it here for quick reference.

In Thunderbird open the settings for your email account, mark the checkbox for 'Attach the signature from a file instead' and use the filename '~/mailsignature.txt'

Now every time when you open a terminal you see the fortune displayed in the terminal and the mail signature gets regenerated.

See "Parameter Expansion" in the bash manpage. They refer to this as "Use Alternate Value", but we're including the var in the at alternative.

The read command reads input and puts it into a variable. With -i you set an initial value. In this case I used a known environment variable.

In this case the current user has proxy variable set which allows access to the rpm on the internet but needs root privs to install it.

Running sudo -E preserves the current user proxy var and allows the rpm install to be executed with sudo.