This will change all files ending in .JPG to .jpg and will work with any file extension

The SSH server configuration requires:

X11Forwarding yes # this is default in Debian

And it's convenient too:

Compression delayed

Then, you can assign new accels to GTK menu actions pressing the keys while the option is active.

This was useful to generate random passwords to some webpage users, using the sample code, inside a bash script

Sometimes you have a situation where you cannot properly see the ls output when you are using a terminal w/a dark background. Usually bash has ls aliased to use colors, and you can easily get ls to use the default foreground color via simply unaliasing the command.

works the same as R's t()

Use set +o noclobber and you will be able to replace files again

This will get the job done in the most efficient way -

spawning only one `rm` process.

"On-the-fly" find data is displayed through `tee` and

you should have plenty of time to ctrl-c if needed before it's too late.

You may need to re-run this after major Software Updates.

To leave more languages in, add more ``-and \! -iname "lang*"'' statements:

**Edit: note the 2nd sudo near the end of the pipeline - this is necessary.

Add z to the flags to enable compression.

If the username includes an @ you can use this one:

wget -r --user=username_here --password=pass_here ftp://ftp.example.com

If run in bash, this will display all executables that are in your current $PATH

Run this in the directory you store your music in.

mp3gain and vorbisgain applies the ReplayGain normalization routine to mp3 and ogg files (respectively) in a reversible way.

ReplayGain uses psychoacoustic analysis to make all files sound about the same loudness, so you don't get knocked out of your chair by loud songs after cranking up the volume on quieter ones.

I'm sure this can be piped into another way. Please share!

I used this when I had a directory of movies from a camera. I wanted to watch a little of each movie, then rename it depending on what was in the movie. This did the trick for me.

Listen to different voices in the system--useful for picking the voice you like

cd into the directory that contains the file.

this is just the usual move command but shortcut'd.

say you wanted to move a photo img1.png from ~/photos/holidayphotos into the parent directory which is ~/photos

command would be:

~/photos/holidayphotos$ mv img1.png ..

I use Ubuntu so this'll work in debian but not sure what else.

I put that line in my .bash_profile (OS X) and .bashrc (Linux).

Here is a summary of what the \char means: n=new line, u=user name, h=host, !=history number, w=current work directory

The \[\e[32m\] sequence set the text to bright green and \[\e[0m\] returns to normal color.

For more information on what you can set in your bash prompt, google 'bash prompt'

Recursively removes all those hidden .DS_Store folders starting in current working directory.

Swap TRUE with FALSE to turn it off again. Note: Finder must be relaunched afterwards to see the effect. For example like this:

Sometimes I need to create a directory of files to operate on to test out some commandlinefu I am cooking up. The main thing is the range ({1..N}) expansion.

even when another instance is already open.

Great for testing purposes when you need

to be 2 people at once on the same site.

the good:

Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.4 with Suhosin-Patch

the bad:

Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

and the ugly:

Server: Apache/2.2.10 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.6