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Wgets "whatismyip" from checkip.dyndns.org and filters out the actual IP-adress. Usefull when you quickly need to find the outward facting IP-address of your current location. Show Sample Output
-1wget --quiet -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^:]*: //' -e 's/<.*$//' -
First column is number of photos, second column is the focal length. Show Sample Output
-1exiv2 *JPG | grep Focal | awk '{print $5}' | sort -n | uniq -c -
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack/files/pdfcrack/pdfcrack-0.10/ For debian and ubuntu :
sudo apt-get install pdfcrack-1pdfcrack <FILE> -
xargs is a more elegant approach to executing a command on find results then -exec as -exec is meant as a filtering flag.
-1find /var/www/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 -
-1pandoc --from=markdown --to=rst --output=README.rst README.md
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With this command you can use shell variables inside sed scripts. This is useful if the script MUST remain in an external file, otherwise you can simply use an inline -e argument to sed.
-1expanded_script=$(eval "echo \"$(cat ${sed_script_file})\"") && sed -e "${expanded_script}" your_input_file -
Easy way to find your computers IP in one place, ie, twitter It suppress the need of dyndns clients and remembering the complex names they give you. I put it inside KAlarm ( the cron GUI for KDE, ubuntu), to update my ip every 3 minutes. I did not add the cron statements to keep the code clean. Show Sample Output
-1STAT=`curl http://www.whatismyip.org/`; curl -u YourUserName:YourPassword -d status=$STAT http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml -
where "cicciobox" is the name of your virtual machine in a Sun VirtualBox server
-1VBoxManage showvminfo "cicciobox" --details -
If like me you do a lot of front-end coding and you have a lot of clients that asks you some little modifications, then you send the modifications back to them in a zip file while ignoring the .git folder and .gitignore file, then copy this zip into your dropbox and send it back to them. They find out a new bug so, rince and repeat? You get the picture. It can be quite tedious.
-1zip -r homard homard -x homard/.git\*; cp ./homard.zip /path_to_dropbox_public_folder/homard.zip -
-1echo -n "String to get MD5" | md5sum | sed "s/ -//"
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-1# [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "Alive"
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-1diskutil list
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-1nohup exemplo.sh &
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"seq" has an additional parameter to use as INCREMENT. # seq FIRST INCREMENT LAST https://linux.die.net/man/1/seq Show Sample Output
-1for i in $(seq 1 5) ; do echo $i ; done -
Mirror every lvol in vg00 in hp-ux 11.31
-1find /dev/vg00 -type b -exec lvextend -m 1 {} /dev/disk/<disk> \; -
If you want to know what OS are supported on "guest" machines on the Sun VirtualBox server.
-1VBoxManage list ostypes -
It's made for a script use, where you have 3 parameters: 1. parameter is the filename 2. (optional) the encoding for subtitles 3. (optional) the scaling of the video, since fullscreen doesn't mean that the video will be scaled.
-1mplayer -vo fbdev $1 -fs -subcp ${2:-cp1251} -vf scale=${3:-1280:720} -
Changes are displayed when they are written to the file to exit Show Sample Output
-1tail -f ~/.bash_history -
-1gnome-open .
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No comment: it's easy!
-1VBoxManage createvm --name "vm-name" --ostype Ubuntu --register -
find and normal files and list them sorting with modification time without group l: with detailed information t: sort with modification time r: reverse order h: show file's size in human-readable format, such as K(kilobytes), M(megabyes) etc. g: do not show group Show Sample Output
-1find . -type f | xargs ls -ltrhg -
-1echo Faltan `curl http://www.elproximoferiado.com.ar/index.php?country=AR -silent | grep contador | cut -f2 -d">" | cut -f1 -d"<"` dias para el proximo feriado
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speaks out last twitter update using 'say'
-1curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=1&screen_name=barackobama" | egrep -w "<text>(.*)</text>" | sed -E "s/<\/?text>//g" | say -
-1ls -1 | while read file; do new_file=$(echo $file | sed s/\ /_/g); mv "$file" "$new_file"; done
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Reverse DNS lookups, from a file with list of IP's, here the file is called lookups.txt
-1sed 's/\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\).in-addr.arpa domain name pointer\(.*\)\./\4.\3.\2.\1\5/' \ lookups.txt - ‹ First < 473 474 475 476 477 > Last ›
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