since fuse mounts do not appear in /etc/mtab (fuse can't write there, dunno if it would if it could) this is propably a better way.

Tres lineas en un shell script para copiar la base de datos diaramente

Nothing fancy it just converts one file from one character encoding into another one.

Remove newlines from output.

One character shorter than awk /./ filename and doesn't use a superfluous cat.

To be fair though, I'm pretty sure fraktil was thinking being able to nuke newlines from any command is much more useful than just from one file.

Easy way to see your real external IP

Lets you set all the java alternatives at once to a matching version. Also has options for just changing the jre or the plugin.

cat? dd? RTFM

?Cat and grep? You can use only grep ("grep \. filename"). Better option is awk.

Pipe any output to "grep ." and blank lines will not be printed.

Easy and direct way to find this out.

Using DynDNS or a similar service not only allows access to your home machine from outside without needing to know what IP the ISP has assigned to it but it also comes in handy if you want to know your external IP address. The only purpose of the sed command is to remove the leading "host.na.me has address " part from the output. If you don't need to discard it you can simply use

On Ubuntu, if tzwatch is installed, then you can call up in terminal the output for every time zone configured in gWorldClock.

On Ubuntu, if tzwatch is installed, then you can call up in terminal the output for every time zone configured in gWorldClock.

prints out the time for the timezone specified in $offsetutc. So you have less to think about things like: "I'm in utc+4 and my friend in utc-7, can I call him now or will I wake him?"

Note: $offsetutc should be an integer between -12 and 12.

sends commands specified in $commandfile to the telnet-server specified by $telnetserver.

to have newlines in $commandfile interpreted as ENTER, save the file in CR+LF (aka "Windows-Textfile") format.

if you want to save the output in a separate file, use:

extracts the debian-package $debfile to $extractdir, including all packaging-information. to repack the package, just type:

I use this in a script on my openwrt router to check if my DynDNS needs to be updated, saves your account from being banned for blank updates.

Same as original just no $ at start

Strips the non-ip information from the dig output. Could be combined with "head -1" to ensure a single ip is returned. Useful for outputting as a variable for use in scripts.