Since bash 4.0, you can use ** to recursively expand to all files in the current directory. This behaviour is disabled by default, this command enables it (you'd best put it in your .profile). See the sample output for clarification.

In my opinion this is much better than creating hacks with find and xargs when you want to pass files to an application.

You can use this on your session login.

Simple but useful command, I use this for purge an hard disk entry in Virtualbox registry file (is in ~user/.Virtualbox) that persist if I erase a Virtual Machine, so I need to delete it manually.

This is the alias command that I discussed in my prior release which you can add to your ~/.bashrc.

This command asks for the station name and then connects to somafm, Great for those who have linux home entertainment boxes and ssh enabled on them, just for the CLI fiends out there ( I know I'm one of them ;)

You can find future releases of this and many more scripts at the teachings of master denzuko - denzuko.co.cc.

This is a working version, though probably clumsy, of the script submitted by felix001. This works on ubuntu and CygWin. This would be great as a bash function, defined in .bashrc. Additionally it would work as a script put in the path.

This command might not be useful for most of us, I just wanted to share it to show power of command line.

Download simple text version of novel David Copperfield from Poject Gutenberg and then generate a single column of words after which occurences of each word is counted by sort | uniq -c combination.

This command removes numbers and single characters from count. I'm sure you can write a shorter version.

This command is useful if you accidentally untar or unzip an archive in a directory and you want to automatically remove the files. Just untar the files again in a subdirectory and then run the above command e.g.

Retrieve the current stock price from Yahoo Finance. The output is simply the latest price (which could be delayed). If you want to look up stock for a different company, replace csco with your symbol.

The nl command lists the contents of a file where is each line is prefixed by a line number. For more information about this command, check out its man page. I tested under Mac OS X and Xubuntu 9.04

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% cat ph-vmstat.awk

# Return human readable numbers

function hrnum(a) {

b = a ;

if (a > 1000000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fM", a/1000000) ; }

else if (a > 1000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fK", a/1000) ; }

return(b) ;

}

# Return human readable storage

function hrstorage(a) {

b = a ;

if (a > 1024000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fG", a/1024/1024) ; }

else if (a > 1024) { b = sprintf("%2.2fM", a/1024) ; }

return(b) ;

}

OFS=" " ;

$1 !~ /[0-9].*/ {print}

$1 ~ /[0-9].*/ {

$4 = hrstorage($4) ;

$5 = hrstorage($5) ;

$9 = hrnum($9) ;

$10 = hrnum($10) ;

$17 = hrnum($17) ;

$18 = hrnum($18) ;

$19 = hrnum($19) ;

print ;

}

I use terminal with black background on the Mac. Unfortunately, the default ls color for the directory is blue, which is very hard to see. By including the line above in my ~/.bash_profile file, I changed the directory's color to cyan, which is easer to see. For more information on the syntax of the LSCOLORS shell variable:

I tested this command on Mac OS X Leopard

This command asks for the station name and then connects to somafm, Great for those who have linux home entertainment boxes and ssh enabled on them, just for the CLI fiends out there ( I know I'm one of them ;)

Also, don't forget to add this as alias(ie alias somafm="read -p 'Which Station? "; mplayer --reallyquite -vo none -ao sdl

This prints out the first 66 digits of pi.

This takes any number (no more than 66 digits long) from stdin (or on the command line), and tells you how to say it. E.g

outputs "three hundred sixty-five"

Pipe any command through figlet to make the output more awesome. Example:

Useful when you've produced a large file of numbers, and want to quickly see the distribution. The value of y halfway along the x axis is the median. Simple!

Just create the listOfNumbers.txt file with a number on each line to try it out.

G option cause a file to be spacing line by line.

Using mplayer's mencoder, you can merge video files together.

'-oac' specifies the audio encoding (here copy, to just copy and not compress)

'-ovc' specifies the video encoding (same thing).

The symlinks command can show status of all symbolic links, including which links are dangling, which symlinks point to files on other file systems, which symlinks use ../ more than necessary, which symlinks are messy (e.g. having too many slashes or dots), etc. Other useful things it can do include removing all dangling links (-d) and converting absolute links to relative links (-c). The path given must be an absolute path (which is why I used $(pwd) in the example command).

Most of you are probably familiar with the "apropos" command for searching man pages. However, did you know there's a similar command inside of gdb? If, for example, you wanted to know all gdb commands that related to threads, you could type "apropos thread". Type "help some_command" to receive more information about a command. Type "help" by itself to see a list of help topics.

An easy one but nice to keep in mind.

Does life get much easier? Read up about wodim for an understanding of its origins in relation to the older `cdrecord` utility

This command looks for a single file named emails.txt which is located somewhere in my home directory and cd to that directory. This command is especially helpful when the file is burried deep in the directory structure. I tested it against the bash shells in Xubuntu 8.10 and Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6