I love CiteULike. It makes keeping a bibtex library easy and keeps all my papers in one place. However, it can be a pain when I add new entries and have to go through the procedure for downloading the new version in my browser, so I made this to grab it for me! I actually pipe it directly into a couple of SED one liners to tidy it up a bit too. Extremely useful, especially if you make a custom BibTeX script that does this first. That way you can sort a fresh BibTeX file for each new paper with no faf.

To use just replace with your CiteULike user name. It doesn't download entries that you've hidden but I don't use that feature anyway.

urls.txt should have a fully qualified url on each line

prefix with

to clear the log

change curl command to

to just get the http status

Simple Google Chrome profile manager using zenity for profile name input. Place this in a shell script and then use the path to it as the command field in a gnome/kde shortcut. When you start it you will be prompted for a profile to use, if you leave it blank you should get the default profile.

Can be useful to rip a CD.

simple table

This adds all new files to SVN recursively. It doesn't work for files that have spaces in their name, but why would you create a file with a space in its name in the first place?

Similar.

Change the number to change the number of spaces. Leaving it out defaults to 8. Leaving out the filename defaults to stdin.

And to do it in reverse, you can use the unexpand command.

This function is used to set environmental variables from a list of alternatives depending on what's installed on the system. It returns the first program found in the list.

Example usage:

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Use it with cat and '|' for know what is used in a conf file.

For example cat /etc/squid/squid.conf | sed -re '/^#/d ; s/#.*$// ; /^\s$/d' :

Show you what you use in your file conf.

It removes all comments and empty lines.

Empty lines are lines with nothing, a tab, or a space.

It will produce passwords with length of 20 printable characters within a reasonable time.

For shorter or longer passwords just change the 20 in bs=20 to something more convenient.

To create only alpha numeric passwords change [:print:] to [:alnum:]

tells you the number of lines in said file, and then tail the last 100 lines ( or how many are messed up) then u take the total amount of lines and then subract the 100 or so lines u DONT WANT, then do a head -n $new_number and then redirect it to new file.db

chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit,Get it from the website http://www.chkrootkit.org

Convert all Tables from MyISAM to InnoDB

The command line can be accessed by using the cmd command which will open a command window with a DOS interface. The command line is a throw back to the early days of computing before there was a Windows interface.

List of commands you use most often suppressing sudo

Test your XFS filesystem and Raptor hard drives for write performance.

change ":" in path for new line and associate word path to var $PATH