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I needed to convert a screen capture when using Gnome's "recordmydesktop" and convert it to a .wmv for playback in Windows.
0ffmpeg -i input.ogv -qscale 0 output.wmv # convert .ogv to .wmv -
0H="--header"; wget $H="Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5" $H="Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8" $H="Connection: keep-alive" -U "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2" --referer=urlhere
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0json_xs -t yaml < foo.json > foo.yaml
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If you've upgraded to OS X 10.10.x the OS installer should be on your system, otherwise its a free download (~ 5 GB). Added bonus, the above command does not require the USB pre-formatted. Show Sample Output
0sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/ --nointeraction -
Due to @tremby, here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/172088/58343. I'm looking for a way to parallelize openssl and feed that to dd since openssl is the bottleneck on my machine: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/253466/parallelize-openssl-as-input-to-dd
0openssl enc -aes-256-ctr -pass pass:"$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=128 count=1 2>/dev/null | base64)" -nosalt </dev/zero | pv --progress --eta --rate --bytes --size 8000632782848 | dd of=/dev/md0 bs=2M -
Combs through your home directory and destroys all Vagrant boxes.
0find $HOME -type d -name .vagrant | xargs -i% bash -c "pushd %; cd ..;vagrant destroy -f; popd" -
0find . -name '*.log' | xargs ls -hlt > /tmp/logs.txt && vi /tmp/logs.txt
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0tp=$(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk '{ print $3 }') && tp=$((tp==0)) && synclient TouchpadOff=$tp
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replace @ symbol with new line character, to get new line character press Ctrl+v+enter --> ^M
0%s/@/^v[M]/g -
0egrep -v "^[[:blank:]]*($|#|//|/\*| \*|\*/)" somefile
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Only need to install Image Magick package. Display a xkcd comic with its title and save it in /tmp directory If you prefer to view the newest xkcd, use this command:
wget -q http://xkcd.com/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*\(http:.*\)" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'0wget -q http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*\(http:.*\)" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}' -
A way not so simple but functional for print the command for the process that's listening a specific port. I got the pid from lsof because I think it's more portable but can be used netstat
netstat -tlnpShow Sample Output0port=8888;pid=$(lsof -Pan -i tcp -i udp | grep ":$port"|tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f2); ps -Afe|grep "$pid"|grep --invert-match grep | sed "s/^\([^ ]*[ ]*\)\{7\}\(.*\)$/\2/g" -
The Washington DC Metro area is not accustomed to getting large snow storms... http://snowpocalypsedc.com/
0/usr/bin/links --source http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/zone/md/mdz009.txt -
This will list your phone's filesystem with bitpim. (works on many LG, Samsung, and Sanyo) See http://www.bitpim.org/help/phones-featuressupported.htm for full list.
0bitpim -p $PHONE_PORT ls -
((60 * 4)) will be turned into 240 by bash before being input to the shutdown command, replace the 4 with whatever number of hours you want, let bash do the math.0shutdown -h $((60 * 4)) -
0curl -O http://www.site.com/img/image[001-175].jpg
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That command make the same that "ls -a", but just typping "la". Tested in bash.
0la -
More stealthy ffmpeg method. The imagemagick 'import' method causes a system beep.
0ssh user@host "ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1920x1080 -i :0 -r 1 -t 1 -f mjpeg -" | display -
0dscacheutil ?flushcache
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If a call get hanged , one can disconnect the call using the above command i.e "soft hangup . The Zap/1-1 is the name of the Channel , you wish to disconnect. There may be many channels, but you need to pick the channel name of hanged call only ...
0soft hangup Zap/1-1 -
%qdbus org.freedesktop.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement suspendToRam Service 'org.freedesktop.PowerManagement' does not exist.
0dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend -
Starts a new shell (in bash/sh, it starts bash/sh). 'man bash' explains: "If arguments remain after option processing, and neither the -c nor the -s option has been supplied, the first argument is assumed to be the name of a file containing shell commands. If bash is invoked in this fashion, $0 is set to the name of the file, and the positional parameters are set to the remaining arguments."
0$0 -
If the HISTTIMEFORMAT is set, the time stamp information associated with each history entry is written to the history file, marked with the history comment character. Show Sample Output
0echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> ~/.bash_profile -
Be careful, first run: lsof | grep -i deleted | grep REG | grep -v txt Then, give it the boot!
0lsof | grep -i deleted | grep REG | grep -v txt | ruby -r 'pp' -e 'STDIN.each do |v| a = v.split(/ +/); puts `:> /proc/#{a[1]}/fd/#{a[3].chop}`; end' -
0mco ping | head -n -4 | awk '{print $1}' | sort
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