C:/Sys/Bin/Admin/Desktop/Brackets/Search.exe Show Sample Output
Finds all files of a certain name and reports all line with the string. Very simple. Show Sample Output
another way to output the IP address' of the system
This is the answer to the 0th problem from the python challenge < http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ >. Replace sensible-browser with firefox, w3m or whatever. Show Sample Output
Yes, You could do it in the GIMP or even use Inkscape, but the command line is so much easier. This is a new version of a previous command fixing some things complained about.
kill all processes of a program
I needed to add a line to my crontab from within a script and didn't want to have to write my own temporary file.
You may find you need to reload the crond after this to make the change take effect.
e.g.:
if [ -x /sbin/service ]
then
/sbin/service crond reload
else
CRON_PID=`ps -furoot | awk '/[^a-z]cron(d)?$/{print $2}'`
if [ -n "$CRON_PID" ]
then
kill -HUP $CRON_PID
fi
fi
The reason I had CRON_HOUR and CRON_MINS instead of numbers is that I wanted to generate a random time between midnight & 6AM to run the job, which I did with:
CRON_HOUR=`/usr/bin/perl -e 'printf "%02d\n", int(rand(6))'`
CRON_MINS=`/usr/bin/perl -e 'printf "%02d\n", int(rand(60));'`
This command allow you quick find any executable by keyword(s) in your system. NOTE: Sometime this command will output like this: `hello.py.launch': No such file or directory this is normal behaviour Show Sample Output
to clean up the extra lines Show Sample Output
finding all files with the metadata tag "data" using the metadata find command mdfind , writing the list to a temporary file, reading the input for the .zip file from this temporary file.
This version uses the indent C formatting utility. Doesn't appear to be included with ubuntu. But CentOS and MacOS have it.
(Changed to "bartonskis" suggestion.)
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