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Commands by angleto

Terminal - Commands by angleto - 7 results

find . -type f | while read line; do NEW_TS=`date -d@$((\`stat -c '%Y' $line\` + <seconds> )) '+%Y%m%d%H%M.%S'`; touch -t $NEW_TS ${line}; done

2010-11-18 14:03:32

User: angleto

Functions: find read touch

Tags: find xargs date stat

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increase recurively the modification time for a list of files

Increase the modification date for the files selected with the find command.

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gs -sDEVICE=pngalpha -sOutputFile=<filename>%d.png -r<resolution> <pdffile>

2010-03-30 09:51:10

User: angleto

Functions: gs

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convert pdf into multiple png files

syntax for resolution is: (see "man gs" for further informations)

-rnumber

-rnumber1xnumber2

find <dir> -printf '%p : %A@\n' | awk '{FS=" : " ; if($2 < <time in epoc> ) print $1 ;}' | xargs rm --verbose -fr ;

2009-11-20 16:31:58

User: angleto

Functions: awk find rm xargs

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remove files and directories with acces time older than a given date

remove files with access time older than a given date.

If you want to remove files with a given modification time replace %A@ with %T@. Use %C@ for the modification time.

The time is expressed in epoc but is easy to use any other ordered format.

python -c 'import socket; s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM); s.connect(("<hostname>", <port>)); print s.getsockname()[0] ; s.close() ;' 2> /dev/null

2009-10-13 16:21:15

User: angleto

Functions: python

Tags: python networking tcp socket

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retrieve the source address used to contact a given host

on multihomed hosts, connected to several networks, could be usefull to know the source address (local ip address) used to reach the target host, this command does not require root priviledges.

The command use a TCP socket, if there is any error the command return an empty string, elsewhere return a valid ip address.

tar -zcvpf backup_`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`.tar.gz `find <target> -atime +5` 2> /dev/null | xargs rm -fr ;

2009-05-26 17:15:52

User: angleto

Functions: rm tar xargs

Tags: backup

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backup and remove files with access time older than 5 days.

create an archive of files with access time older than 5 days, and remove original files.

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mencoder -ovc copy -nosound ./movie.mov -o ./movie_mute.mov

2009-05-17 11:56:22

User: angleto

Tags: mplayer video editing

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remove audio trac from a video file

create a copy of a video file without the audio tracs

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find . -name '*.m4a' | xargs -I audiofile mplayer -ao pcm "audiofile" -ao pcm:file="audiofile.wav"

2009-05-16 11:51:14

User: angleto

Functions: find xargs

Tags: audio mplayer

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covert m4a audio files to wav

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