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Use GNU/screen as a terminal emulator for anything serial console related.
screen /dev/tty
eg.
screen /dev/ttyS0 9600
MacOSX: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061109133825654
Cheat Sheet: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/screen-terminal-emulator-cheat-sheet/
Useful in scripts when the file is passed in as an argument. Eg.
$ filepath=$(realpath $1)
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token.
This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use:
`awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'`
You must adapt the command line to include:
* $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one
* TTL for the credentials
The value for the sort command's -k argument is the column in the CSV file to sort on. In this example, it sorts on the second column. You must use some form of the sort command in order for uniq to work properly.
Figures out total line contribution per author for an entire GIT repo. Includes binary files, which kind of mess up the true count.
If crashes or takes too long, mess with the ls-file option at the start:
git ls-files -x "*pdf" -x "*psd" -x "*tif" to remove really random binary files
git ls-files "*.py" "*.html" "*.css" to only include specific file types
Based off my original SVN version: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2787/prints-total-line-count-contribution-per-user-for-an-svn-repository
Do the unlock KDE screen saver locked session with lightdm display manager used in Kubuntu 12.10 +
If you want prepend/append text just wrap in echo:
$echo Connected: `netstat -an|grep -ci "tcp.*established"`
Converts every *.eps file to a *.pdf file
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds.
sec2dhms() {
declare -i SS="$1"
D=$(( SS / 86400 ))
H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 ))
M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 ))
S=$(( SS % 60 ))
[ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:"
[ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H"
printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S"
}