This set of commands will rip a dvd title using a 2 pass mencoder xvid encode. It will provide a great quality rip. It will rip as close to 700MB as possible. (note the bitrate of -700000)

Enjoy!

This set of commands will rip a dvd title using a 2 pass mencoder xvid encode. It will provide a great quality rip. It will rip as close to 700MB as possible. (note the bitrate of -700000)

Enjoy!

Requires Linux Remind:

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

and Growl on the Mac:

http://growl.info/

growlnotify needs to be in the executable path on the mac.

Combined with "prowl" in the iPhone you can receive push notifications of your reminders to the iPhone.

the f is for file and - stdout, This way little shorter.

I Like copy-directory function It does the job but looks like SH**, and this doesn't understand folders with whitespaces and can only handle full path, but otherwise fine,

function copy-directory () { ; FrDir="$(echo $1 | sed 's:/: :g' | awk '/ / {print $NF}')" ; SiZe="$(du -sb $1 | awk '{print $1}')" ; (cd $1 ; cd .. ; tar c $FrDir/ )|pv -s $SiZe|(cd $2 ; tar x ) ; }

Create a single tar.gz archive

I know it's a very basic one, but it's one I keep forgetting.

To ensure that it will never come back, you can edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Add "blacklist pcspkr" sans quotes

short command to find a string in all text files in all subdirectories, excluding all files grep does not deem text files.

Also useful with iostat, or pretty much anything else you want timestamped.

Assume that you have a form , in the source look for something similar to :

input name="rid" type="TEXT"

input name="submit" value="SUBMIT" type="SUBMIT" align="center"

Then exec the command to get the response into html

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Adjust Google domain and window width

Next time you are leaching off of someone else's wifi use this command before you start your bittorrent ...for legitimate files only of course.

It creates a hexidecimal string using md5sum from the first few lines of /dev/urandom and splices it into the proper MAC address format. Then it changes your MAC and resets your wireless (wlan0:0).

put down the joint and rtfm :)

grep -o puts each occurrence in a separate line

I don't know why this ain't written as simply as it is. I always see it's just used as parameter, like: vi `!!`

But i use it to repeat a command, as i always work on several shells and check the result of one shell on a second.

The -p parameter tell the netstat to display the PID and name of the program to which each socket belongs or in digestible terms list the program using the net.Hope you know what pipe symbol means!

Presently we wish to only moniter tcp connections so we ask grep to scan for string tcp, now from the op of grep tcp we further scan for regular expression /[a-z]*.

Wonder what that means ?

If we look at the op of netstat -p we can see that the name of the application is preceded by a / ( try netstat -p ) so,now i assume application name contains only characters a to z (usually this is the case) hope now it makes some sense.Regular expression /[a-z]* means to scan a string that start with a / and contains zero or more characters from the range a-z !!. Foof .. is t

If you frequently need to connect to your ubersecure mainframe from various uberunsafe machines, you have to face difficult decision: (a) type the password everytime during the session (lame), (b) add local public key to mainframes authorized_keys file (unsafe), (c) as above, but remove this key at the end of the session (pain in the a55). So let's say you save The Command to tempauth file in bin directory of your mainframe's account and make it executable. Then, while you're on one of these unsafe ones, do:

and password prompts stop the harassment for 30 minutes and you don't have to care to remove the unsafe key after that.

Say you want to execute 'file' on the command 'top' (to determine what type of file it is); but you don't know where 'top' resides: preface the argument with = and zsh will implicitly prepend the path.

Sometimes it is handy to be able to list contents of a tar file within a compressed archive, such as 7Zip in this instance, without having to extract the archive first. This is especially helpful when dealing with larger sized files.

say you want to edit your PATH variable using bash/zsh commandline editing, this will put something like this in history so you can edit it:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

to make this a shell function such that:

eev HOME

will put /home/dave in the last history event:

eev()

{

print -s "$1='$(eval echo \$$1)'"

}

Don't track in history commands starting with whitespace.

Moreover ignore duplicates from history.

To be set in .bashrc

ex.

$ export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

$   echo antani

$   history|grep -c antani

say you've just found all the config files with this command

find . -name '*.config'

and you need to edit them all

vi `!!`

will re-execute the command and present them to vi in the argument list

don't use if the list is really long as it may overflow the command buffer