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gnu@robby:~$ mencoder -idx out2.ogv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -audiofile /home/gnu/snowballz/data/music/snowballz2.mp3  -o snow.avi
MEncoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu19 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x76c7ec5
Ogg stream 0 is of an unknown type
[Ogg] stream 1: video (Theora v3.2.1), -vid 0
Ogg file format detected.
VIDEO:  [theo]  1024x768  24bpp  15.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Audio file file format detected.
[V] filefmt:65536  fourcc:0x6F656874  size:1024x768  fps:15.00  ftime:=0.0667
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/13.61% (ratio: 24000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[theora @ 0x88423b0]Missing extradata!
Could not open codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [theora] Theora/VP3
VDec: vo config request - 1024 x 768 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: libavcodec (1024x768 fourcc=34504d46 [FMP4])
Selected video codec: [theora] vfm: theora (Theora (free, reworked VP3))
==========================================================================
MP3 audio selected.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Pos: 169.7s   2546f ( 0%) 12.61fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.139 [815:231]
Skipping frame!
Pos: 170.4s   2557f ( 0%) 12.62fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.135 [816:230]
Skipping frame!
Pos: 331.8s   4979f ( 0%) 13.60fps Trem: 603min 3609mb  A-V:0.102 [791:230]
Flushing video frames.
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.

Video stream:  791.586 kbit/s  (98948 B/s)  size: 32831029 bytes  331.800 secs  4979 frames

Audio stream:  230.839 kbit/s  (28854 B/s)  size: 4917529 bytes  170.423 secs

mencoder -idx Your_Input_Video_File -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -audiofile Your_Audio_track.mp3 -o Output_File.avi

eastwind · 2009-12-11 23:50:37 3

Duplicate several drives concurrently

If you have some drive imaging to do, you can boot into any liveCD and use a commodity machine. The drives will be written in parallel. To improve efficiency, specify a larger block size in dd: dd if=/dev/sda bs=64k | tee >(dd of=/dev/sdb bs=64k) | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=64k To image more drives , insert them as additional arguments to tee: dd if=/dev/sda | tee >(dd of=/dev/sdb) >(dd of=/dev/sdc) >(dd of=/dev/sdd) | dd of=/dev/sde
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dd if=/dev/sda | tee >(dd of=/dev/sdb) | dd of=/dev/sdc

nerd65536 · 2009-12-11 17:34:38 12
validate xml in a shell script.

For debian likes, that's in python-xml package.
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-1

xmlproc_parse.python-xml &>/dev/null <FILE> || exit 1

sputnick · 2009-12-11 17:30:03 5
validate xml in a shell script using xmllint
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1

xmllint --noout some.xml 2>&1 >/dev/null || exit 1

putnamhill · 2009-12-11 16:36:21 6
Print line numbers

Print out contents of file with line numbers. This version will print a number for every line, and separates the numbering from the line with a tab. Show Sample Output
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```
1     This is line 1.
2     This is line 2.
3
4     This is line 4.
```
-1

sed = <file> | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/'

jgc · 2009-12-11 14:39:14 3
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Parsing the output of ls is never a good idea for any reason. Using find this way: - works with files that have spaces in their names. - actually lists "sub folders" and not of all files and folders. - does not break if there are a huge number of files in the current directory.
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-6

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name . -exec du -sh {} +

sorpigal · 2009-12-11 14:37:26 4
Change your swappiness Ratio under linux

This command allow you to set the swappiness var at 50 (default is 60). The value interval must be set between 0 and 100. If swappiness is high=Swap usage is high, if swappiness is low=Ram usage is high.
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8

sysctl vm.swappiness=50

marousan · 2009-12-11 10:40:21 7
Find the ratio between ram usage and swap usage.

it provides the ratio used for the RAM and The SWAP under Linux. When swappiness is high, Swap usage is high. When swappiness is low, Ram usage is high. Show Sample Output
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```
vm.swappiness = 60
```
3

sysctl -a | grep vm.swappiness

marousan · 2009-12-11 10:33:35 4
List all TCP opened ports on localhost in LISTEN mode

Alternative of OJM snippet : This one show the IP too, where ports bind. It's very important, because if there's only 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0, connections from internet are rejected.
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3

netstat -nptl

sputnick · 2009-12-11 10:23:43 4
Analyse compressed Apache access logs for the most commonly requested pages
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zcat access_log.*.gz | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 20

tkb · 2009-12-11 09:36:30 4
list all opened ports on host
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3

sudo lsof -P -i -n -sTCP:LISTEN

OJM · 2009-12-11 07:16:54 3
Send a local file via email

Another way of sending an attachment. -s : subject file : file to be sent
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mpack -s "Backup: $file" "$file" email@id.com

sentinel · 2009-12-11 04:03:06 3
See non printable caracters like tabulations, CRLF, LF line terminators ( colored )

For fancier and cleaner output, try the following snippet : showendlines(){ while read i; do od --address-radix=n --width=$(wc -c <<< "$i") -c <<< "$i" | perl -pe 's/.\K\s{2,3}//g'; done < $1 | grep --color '\\.'; } Now you can run that with : showendlines <FILE> Thanks to prince_jammys to "debug" my English ;)
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od -c <FILE> | grep --color '\\.'

sputnick · 2009-12-11 02:15:48 9
Send a local file via email

Send it the easy way, with MIME and everything handled for you by an app that knows best.
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mutt your@email_address.com -s "Message Subject Here" -a attachment.jpg </dev/null

linuxrawkstar · 2009-12-10 22:49:38 5
list all opened ports on host
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4

nmap -p 1-65535 --open localhost

solarislackware · 2009-12-10 20:03:37 3
Send a local file via email

on this way we can define the body too
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0

{ echo -e "$body"; uuencode "$outfile" "$outfile"; } | mail -s "$subject" "$destaddr" ;

glaudiston · 2009-12-10 18:08:59 4
prints line numbers

There's too many options to number, My curiosity has forced me to make it using only sed. Maybe useful... or not... :-S
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sed '/./=' infile | sed '/^/N; s/\n/ /'

glaudiston · 2009-12-10 16:24:56 6
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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7

du -sh */

guxtavo · 2009-12-10 16:19:15 6
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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ls | xargs du -sh

jyro · 2009-12-10 15:58:05 3
extract plain text from MS Word docx files

Tested on MacOS X
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5

unzip -p some.docx word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]]\{1,\}//g'

putnamhill · 2009-12-10 15:13:33 12
Find jpeg images and copy them to a central location

Use if you have pictures all over the place and you want to copy them to a central location Synopsis: Find jpg files translate all file names to lowercase backup existing, don't overwrite, preserve mode ownership and timestamps copy to a central location
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4

find . -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | xargs -0 cp --backup=numbered -dp -u --target-directory {location} &

oracular · 2009-12-10 08:47:04 5
show your locale language keyboard setting

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```
gnu@robby:~$ locale | grep LANG=
LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8
```
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locale | grep LANG=

eastwind · 2009-12-10 07:24:01 5
Format a flooppy with windows compatible disk

The 1440 is the number of bytes, and the A: specifies the floppy drive.
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mformat -f 1440 A:

eastwind · 2009-12-10 06:51:20 3
mount a msdos formated floppy disk

-t option tells the system to look for a msdos filesystem The /dev/fd0 is your floppy drive ( This may be different for you check /dev folder to confirm) /mnt/floppy is the point where you want to mount the device to
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-2

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

eastwind · 2009-12-10 06:46:53 7
convert wmv into xvid avi format
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1

mencoder -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 Foo.wmv -o Bar.avi

eastwind · 2009-12-10 06:46:11 3
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Swap a file or dir with quick resotre

This lets you replace a file or directory and quickly revert if something goes wrong. For example, the current version of a website's files are in public_html. Put a new version of the site in public_html~ and execute the command. The names are swapped. If anything goes wrong, execute it again (up arrow or !!).

sort list of email addresses by domain.tld

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Mount important virtual system directories under chroot'ed directory

The command is useful when, e.g., booting an existing system with a rescue or installation CD where you need to chroot into the hard-disk and be able to do stuff which accesses kernel info (e.g. when installing Ubuntu desktop with LVM2 you need to mount and chroot the hard disk from a shell window in order to install packages and run initramfs inside chroot). The command assumes that /mnt/xxx is where the chroot'ed environment's root file system on the hard disk is mounted.

Increase mplayer maximum volume

use '0' and '9' to increase/decrease volume. this is useful on laptops with low speaker volume.

Add prefix onto filenames

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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

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