If $INBACK is set, command will launch in foreground and inverse.

Very useful in script !

We could apply the inverse comportement like that :

eval command ${INBACK:+&}

This example is taken from Cygwin running on Win7Ent-64. Device names will vary by platform.

Both commands resulted in identical files per the output of md5sum, and ran in the same time down to the second (2m45s), less than 100ms apart. I timed the commands with 'time', which added before 'dd' or 'readom' gives execution times after the command completes. See 'man time' for more info...it can be found on any Unix or Linux newer than 1973. Yeah, that means everywhere.

readom is supposed to guarantee good reads, and does support flags for bypassing bad blocks where dd will either fail or hang.

readom's verbosity gave more interesting output than dd.

On Cygwin, my attempt with 'readom' from the first answer actually ended up reading my hard drive. Both attempts got to 5GB before I killed them, seeing as that is past any CD or standard DVD.

dd:

'bs=1M' says "read 1MB into RAM from source, then write that 1MB to output. I also tested 10MB, which shaved the time down to 2m42s.

'if=/dev/scd0' selects Cygwin's representation of the first CD-ROM drive.

'of=./filename.iso' simply means "create filename.iso in the current directory."

readom:

'-v' says "be a little noisy (verbose)." The man page implies more verbosity with more 'v's, e.g. -vvv.

dev='D:' in Cygwin explicitly specifies the D-drive. I tried other entries, like '/dev/scd0' and '2,0', but both read from my hard drive instead of the CD-ROM. I imagine my LUN-foo (2,0) was off for my system, but on Cygwin 'D:' sort of "cut to the chase" and did the job.

f='./filename.iso' specifies the output file.

speed=2 simply sets the speed at which the CD is read. I also tried 4, which ran the exact same 2m45s.

retries=8 simply means try reading a block up to 8 times before giving up. This is useful for damaged media (scratches, glue lines, etc.), allowing you to automatically "get everything that can be copied" so you at least have most of the data.

Thanks to http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-block-an-ip-on-my-linux-server/

Sort by time and Reverse to get Ascending order, then display a marker next to the a file, negate directory and select only 1 result

-F,

use , as field separator

gsub()

deletes all spaces

for(){}

loops over all input fields and print their index and value

exit

exit after first line

Request all information about my IP address in xml format

Warn: use convmv or detox if you can: they are the right tools.

But if you want to do it manually, you can use this command to find the problematic files and transliterate their accented characters to their ascii equivalent.

(Useful when doing cd backup: growisofs may fail on files which come from the old iso8859-* days.)

This permit to convert an UNIX file to DOS file.

You can use it in a loop to convert multiple files, like :

for i in *.bat; do sed -i 's/$/\r/' $i; done

Note that `grep "$(ir foo)"` really doesn't save any typing, but wrapping this inside a second shell function will:

Tail all logs that are opened by all java processes. This is helpful when you are on a new environment and you do not know where the logs are located. Instead of java you can put any process name. This command does work only for Linux.

The list of all log files opened by java process:

Requires mencoder.

Change the value of p to match the path where you wish to create the profile.

To run it again in the future, use the parameter --user-data-dir (which gets echoed to you when run):

chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/path/to/your/

Quick Functions:

# create a new chromium profile

new-chromium-profile() { p=~/.config/chromium/$1; cp -r ~/.config/chromium/Default $p && echo "chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$p" && chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$p; }

# runs a chromium profile

run-chromium-profile() { chromium-browser --user-data-dir=~/.config/chromium/$1; }

This is good for cleaning up log files without having to erase the entire contents of the file, and allows you to keep the most recent entries to the log only

basically create a .pot file from a po-file, ready for translating

This one-liner outputs a random number between the values given for FLOOR and RANGE.

Replaces space in a file with a underline