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Record audio and video from webcam using mencoder

Record audio to MP3 stream and video to MPEG-4 stream from webcam to AVI file using mencoder. Gives floating point exception in some mencoder versions.
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mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=800:height=600:device=/dev/video0:fps=30:outfmt=yuy2:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.2,0 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1800 -ffourcc xvid -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr=128 -o output.avi

ivalladt · 2009-09-15 19:46:06 5
View webcam output using mplayer

View webcam output using mplayer, with correct fps and outfmt settings according to my webcam model.
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mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:fps=30:outfmt=yuy2

ivalladt · 2009-09-15 19:41:41 5
Execute all SQL files in a directory
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cat *.sql | mysql <db_name>

rehanift · 2009-09-15 17:28:35 3
Record audio and video from webcam using ffmpeg

Record from a webcam, audio using ALSA encoded as MP3, video as MPEG-4.
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ffmpeg -f alsa -r 16000 -i hw:2,0 -f video4linux2 -s 800x600 -i /dev/video0 -r 30 -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -vtag xvid -sameq -acodec libmp3lame -ab 96k output.avi

ivalladt · 2009-09-15 17:03:25 5
convert a,b,c to ('a','b','c') for use in SQL in-clauses
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echo a,b,c | sed -e s/,/\',\'/g -e s/^/$\'/ -e s/$/\'$/

sharfah · 2009-09-15 15:52:01 5
Remove all files but one starting with a letter(s)

Remove everything in current directory except files starting with "ca".
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rm -rf [a-bd-zA-Z0-9]* c[b-zA-Z0-9]*

arcege · 2009-09-15 14:22:56 7
Extract audio track from a video file using mencoder

Extracts an MP3 encoded audio stream from an input video file.
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mencoder -of rawaudio -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -o output.mp3 input.avi

ivalladt · 2009-09-15 11:28:01 3
Substitute audio track of video file using mencoder

Creates a new video file with video stream copied from input file and a different audio stream
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mencoder -ovc copy -audiofile input.mp3 -oac copy input.avi -o output.avi

ivalladt · 2009-09-15 11:26:05 3
Remove sound from video file using mencoder

Remove sound from input video file, output video stream is copied from input video stream, with no audio.
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mencoder -ovc copy -nosound input.avi -o output.avi

ivalladt · 2009-09-15 11:22:51 6
Fix UTF-8 text files misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 due to Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

Fixes the faulty files with perl, which may exist on more platforms
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perl -i -pe 's/\xef\xbb\xbf//g' <file>

pfredrik · 2009-09-15 11:22:43 4

This command creates tar zip of a directory and its sub-directories. Show Sample Output

tar cvfz dir_name.tgz dir/

unixmonkey6220 · 2009-09-15 10:20:20 4

Happy Days

AFAIR this is the wording ;)
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echo {'1,2,3',4}" o'clock" ROCK

danam · 2009-09-15 10:12:49 11
Incase you miss the famous 'C:\>' prompt
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export PS1='C:${PWD//\//\\\}>'

jldbasa · 2009-09-15 10:06:25 4
Find UTF-8 text files misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 due to Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

Same thing, only "head" instead of grep/egrep.. Show Sample Output
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```
Match: ./wps.ear/wps.war/themes/html/QPG/pageHeader.html
```
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find -type f |while read a;do [ "`head -c3 -- "${a}"`" == $'\xef\xbb\xbf' ] && echo "Match: ${a}";done

pfredrik · 2009-09-15 08:43:21 3
Backup files older than 1 day on /home/dir, gzip them, moving old file to a dated file.

Useful for backing up old files, custom logs, etc. via a cronjob. Show Sample Output
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```
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        46705 Sep 13 14:30 file2.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 rms      rms         46705 Sep 13 14:30 file22.rpm

-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        44227 Sep 13 14:30 file2.rpm_2009-09-15.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 rms      rms         44228 Sep 13 14:30 file22.rpm_2009-09-15.gz
```
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find /home/dir -mtime +1 -print -exec gzip -9 {} \; -exec mv {}.gz {}_`date +%F`.gz \;

sagan · 2009-09-15 06:49:59 10
Setting reserved blocks percentage to 1%

According to tune2fs manual, reserved blocks are designed to keep your system from failing when you run out of space. Its reserves space for privileged processes such as daemons (like syslogd, for ex.) and other root level processes; also the reserved space can prevent the filesystem from fragmenting as it fills up. By default this is 5% regardless of the size of the partition. http://www.ducea.com/2008/03/04/ext3-reserved-blocks-percentage/
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sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda4

bassel · 2009-09-14 21:11:55 5
Testing hard disk reading speed
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hdparm -t /dev/sda

bassel · 2009-09-14 21:04:08 9
Check variable has been set

Works in all shells. Does not require a test. Handles like an assertion. Show Sample Output
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```
sh: VAR: unset variable
```
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: ${VAR:?unset variable}

arcege · 2009-09-14 19:41:01 4
erase content from a cdrw
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cdrecord -v -blank=all -force

eastwind · 2009-09-14 19:21:15 7
burn an iso to cd or dvd
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cdrecord -v path_to_iso_image.iso

eastwind · 2009-09-14 19:20:12 4
random xkcd comic

i sorta stole this from http://www.shell-fu.org/lister.php?id=878#MTC_form but it didn't work, so here it is, fixed. --- updated to work with jpegs, and to use a fancy positive look behind assertion.
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display "$(wget -q http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/ -O - | grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^"]+(png|jpg)')"

grokskookum · 2009-09-14 18:40:14 5
Check variable has been set
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[ -z "$VAR" ] && echo "VAR has not been set" && exit 1

sharfah · 2009-09-14 17:03:16 4
Happy Days

This never gets old Show Sample Output
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```
you'll just have to see now wont you
```
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echo {1..3}" o'clock" ROCK

JackiesJungle · 2009-09-14 15:39:07 5
view file content with echo

another replacement for cat.
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echo "$(</etc/issue)"

mobidyc · 2009-09-14 09:44:35 34
search for a file in PATH

Also searches for aliases and shell builtins Show Sample Output
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```
root@fs3:~# type nvgui
nvgui is /usr/bin/nvgui
root@serv:~# type rm
rm is /bin/rm
root@fs3:~# type alias
alias is a shell builtin
root@serv:~# 
```
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type <filename>

danam · 2009-09-14 09:37:23 5
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Get your external IP address

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remove empty lines in place with backup

Modify file in place to remove empty lines and create a backup of the original with the extension .bak

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