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For those who don't have the symlinks command, you can use readlink. This command is not straightforward because readlink is very picky. The backslash in front of 'ls' means not to use an alias (e.g. color escape codes from an aliased 'ls' could mess up readlink), and the -1 (one) means to print the entries separated by newlines. xargs -l (the letter L) means to process each input separated by newlines as separate commands.
2\ls -1 | xargs -l readlink -
In most modern shells, printf is a builtin command.
0printf "%s\n" .* -
-2ls -F | sed -n 's/@$//p'
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1du -ms * 2>/dev/null |sort -nr|head
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ls -l may vary depending on operating system, so "print $8" may have to be changed
-3ls -l `ls -l |awk '/^l/ {print $8}'` -
2ls -d .*
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7sudo mount -t cifs -o user,username="samba username" //$ip_or_host/$sharename /mnt
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This tool configures system services in connection with system runlevels. It turns on/off services using the scripts in /etc/init.d/. Rcconf works with System-V style runlevel configuration. It is a TUI(Text User Interface) frontend to the update-rc.d command.
1rcconf -
If you have multiple displays or monitors the DISPLAY environment variable will tell X where to send the output. This is very handy for setting up a mediacenter at home. You can plugin the computer to the TV and then ssh to the computer and set the DISPLAY as above, then run your program and it will show up on the TV.
1DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY -
Mount a Windows share. Usually the IP is needed for the $ip_or_host option. Getting hostnames working on a local network never seems to work.
-2sudo mount -t cifs //$ip_or_host/$sharename /mnt -
0aumix -v 90
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Programs for locking and unlocking files and mailboxes.This package includes several programs to safely lock and unlock files and mailboxes from the command line. These include: lockfile-create lockfile-remove lockfile-touchlock mail-lock mail-unlock mail-touchlock These programs use liblockfile to perform the file locking and unlocking, so they are guaranteed compatible with Debian's file locking policies.
4lockfile -
Reencodes to MPEG-4 DivX output video file from step 1. Audio stream is simply copied. Resizes to 320x240 and deinterlaces as needed. A heading subtitle file is applied as watermark. This heading subtitle file can be a URL.
3mencoder -sub heading.ssa -subpos 0 -subfont-text-scale 4 -utf8 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=320:-2,expand=:240:::1 -ffourcc xvid -o output.avi dvd.avi -
Rips DVD to lossless encoded video file. Reencodes audio to CBR MP3 for correct audio to video syncing. Be sure to have enough free disk space.
0mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr=128 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o dvd.avi dvd://0 -
Simply more email-adresses matched Show Sample Output
10grep -Eio '([[:alnum:]_.-]+@[[:alnum:]_.-]+?\.[[:alpha:].]{2,6})' -
as unixmonkey7109 pointed out, first awk parse replaces three steps.
1awk '/q=/{print $11}' /var/log/httpd/access_log.4 | awk -F 'q=' '{print $2}' | sed 's/+/ /g;s/%22/"/g;s/q=//' | cut -d "&" -f 1 -
It's not a big line, and it *may not* work for everybody, I guess it depends on the detail of access_log configuration in your httpd.conf. I use it as a prerotate command for logrotate in httpd section so it executes before access_log rotation, everyday at midnight.
-2cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | grep q= | awk '{print $11}' | awk -F 'q=' '{print $2}' | sed 's/+/ /g;s/%22/"/g;s/q=//' | cut -d "&" -f 1 | mail youremail@isp.com -s "[your-site] search strings for `date`" -
This is a bit of a hack, but it will get your fwguid which is needed sometimes when using your iPod. Show Sample Output
-1lsusb -v | grep -o "[0-9A-Z]{16}" -
This uses mpg123 to convert the files to wav before burning, but you can use mplayer or mencoder or ffmpeg or lame with the --decode option, or whatever you like.
3alias burnaudiocd='mkdir ./temp && for i in *.[Mm][Pp]3;do mpg123 -w "./temp/${i%%.*}.wav" "$i";done;cdrecord -pad ./temp/* && rm -r ./temp' -
6echo .*
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touch a dummy file with the specified date, then use find with -anewer .
2touch -t "YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss" dummy ; find . -anewer dummy -
GNU find + sort
0find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size +1M -printf "%f:%s\n" | sort -t":" -k2 -
Exit with error if script is not run in a terminal
21[ -t 0 ] || exit 1 -
0wget -qO - http://www.sputnick-area.net/ip;echo
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7printf "%s\n" ${PATH//:/\/* }
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