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Require wmctrl and gpicker and an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager
-1wmctrl -i -a `wmctrl -l -x | gpicker -d "\n" -n "\n" - | awk '{print $1}'` -
-1egrep '__NR_' /usr/include/asm/unistd_`getconf -a | awk '$1~/^WORD/{print $2}'`.h | sed -e 's/^#define __NR_//' | column -t
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w3m is a commanline web browser, full of options, I used -dump_head for less unnecessary page download. With awk, I can retrieve dynamic changes in webpages in this very econnomical fashion Show Sample Output
-1w3m -dump_head www.fiat.com | awk '/Date+/{print $6, $7}' -
print members both in file1 and file2
-1sort file1 file2 | uniq -d -
Easily removes line #2 in ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Show Sample Output
-1perl -p -i -e 's/.*\n//g if $.==2' ~/.ssh/known_hosts -
Uses find, plutil and xpath. Note: Some applications don't have proper information. system_profiler might be better to use. It's a bit slow query. Due to command length limit, I removed -name "*.app" and CFBundleName. Show Sample Output
-1find /Applications -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec sh -c 'echo "{}"; (plutil -convert xml1 -o - "{}/Contents/Info.plist" | xpath /dev/stdin "concat(\"v\", /plist/dict/string[preceding-sibling::key[1]=\"CFBundleShortVersionString\"]/node())" 2>/dev/null)' \; -
Or, if you have restricted access for sftp only, I think you can still do this:
diff /path/to/localfile <(scp user@host:/path/to/remotefile >(cat))-1diff /path/to/localfile <(ssh user@host cat /path/to/remotefile) -
-1eyeD3 --add-image=coverart.jpg:FRONT_COVER musicfile.mp3
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-1du -hs file-name
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-1TIMEUNIT=$(awk '/timescale/{print NR}' a)
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don't have to be that complicated
-1cho "(Something like http://foo.com/blah_blah)" | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i~/^(http|ftp):\/\//)print $i}}' -
man find: If no paths are given, the current directory is used. - Can anybody tell me why so many people are typing the dot?
-1find -type d -name ".svn" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf -
-1groovy -e 'println URLEncoder.encode("Some text")'
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mtr is a network utility that combines traceroute and ping utility
-1mtr -c 50 -r example.com -
Display information about the cores. * sudo apt-get install schedtool Show Sample Output
-1schedtool 1 -
Using the COPYFILE_DISABLE=true environment variable you can prevent tar from adding any ._-files to your .tar-file on Mac OS X.
-1COPYFILE_DISABLE=true tar cvf newTarFile.tar Directory/ -
work for execute file
-1dirname $(readlink -f ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}) -
zsh only I always hated resorting to using $(seq -w 1 99) to pad numbers. zsh provides a shortcut that couldn't be more intuitive. It also works in reverse {99..01} Show Sample Output
-1for i in {001..999}; print $i -
Grab 4 bytes from www.random.org over ssl and format them as an integer
-1curl -s "https://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randbyte?nbytes=4" | od -DAn -
needs grep what supports '--recursive' Show Sample Output
-1grep -Ilr "<?php" . -
-1html2text http://checkip.dyndns.org | grep -i 'Current IP Address:'|cut -c21-36
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like #9295, but awkish instead of perlish
-1tail -f LOGFILE | awk '{system("say \"" $0 "\"");}' -
should do the same as command #12875, just shorter.
-1tar -cf "../${PWD##*/}.tar" . -
Be aware of using the --password argument as it will appear your password in plain text on the screen. You may use -p argument instead, it will prompt you to enter you password in hidden mode.
-1cat schema.sql data.sql test_data.sql | mysql -u user --password=pass dbname -
Substitute that 724349691704 with an UPC of a CD you have at hand, and (hopefully) this oneliner should return the $Artist - $Title, querying discogs.com. Yes, I know, all that head/tail/grep crap can be improved with a single sed command, feel free to send "patches" :D Enjoy! Show Sample Output
-1wget http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 -O foobar &> /dev/null ; grep \/release\/ foobar | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>\(.*\)<\/a><\/div>/\1/' ; rm foobar - ‹ First < 474 475 476 477 478 > Last ›
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