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Commands by bbelt16ag

Terminal - Commands by bbelt16ag - 17 results

2013-05-04 17:43:21

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: cut sort uniq

Tags: bash curl delicious xml2 linkchecker

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check your up to date delicious links.

This commands queries the delicious api then runs the xml through xml2, grabs the urls cuts out the first two columns, passes through uniq to remove duplicates if any, and then goes into linkchecker who checks the links. the links go the blacklist in ~/.linkchecker/blacklist. please see the manual pages for further info peeps. I took me a few days to figure this one out. I how you enjoy it. Also don't run these api more then once a few seconds you can get banned by delicious see their site for info. ~updated for no recursive

lvextend -r -L+100G /dev/VG/LV

2013-04-20 14:29:11

User: bbelt16ag

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Lvextend logical volume

this command extends your logical volume. then it does a resize2fs on it as well. added the -r switch to make it launch resize.

git branch -d myfeature

2012-06-01 08:05:58

User: bbelt16ag

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Incorporating a finished feature on develop : Deleted branch myfeature

source::: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

git branch -d myfeature

Deleted branch myfeature (was 05e9557)

git checkout develop; git merge --no-ff myfeature

2012-06-01 08:03:49

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: merge

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Incorporating a finished feature on develop

source::: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

git checkout develop

Switched to branch 'develop'

git merge --no-ff myfeature

git checkout -b myfeature develop

2012-06-01 08:02:02

User: bbelt16ag

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Creating a feature branch

Source ::: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Creating a feature branch

When starting work on a new feature, branch off from the develop branch.

git checkout -b myfeature develop

git log --graph --oneline --all

2012-06-01 07:58:15

User: bbelt16ag

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My Git Tree Command!

this creates a tree of your branch merges. very useful if you want to follow the features you add.

git log --stat

2012-06-01 07:53:34

User: bbelt16ag

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show git logging

shows some logging for the git repo.

# umount /media/filesystem; e2fsck -f /dev/device ; resize2fs -p /dev/device 200G #actual newsize#;lvreduce --size 200G /dev/device; mount /media/filesystem; df -h /media/filesystem

2011-09-14 08:52:02

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: df e2fsck mount resize2fs umount

Tags: bash Linux UNIX lvm

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LVM2 Reduce

Just the commands for the lvreduce I keep forgetting.

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e2fsck -C -v /dev/device

2011-04-08 05:33:39

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: e2fsck

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check the filesystem and use a progress bar

if you happen to start with out the -C switch then you a killall -USR1 e2fsck

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blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sd[ab]

2011-01-08 11:25:54

User: bbelt16ag

Tags: blockdev

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Step#1 Compare the disk spaces first!

Compare the disk space for the new and old drive

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dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/sam/MBR.image bs=512 count=1

2011-01-08 11:25:02

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: dd

Tags: dd ddrescue

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Step#2 Create a copy of the bootload and partition table!

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ddrescue -n /dev/old_disk /dev/new_disk rescued.log

2011-01-08 11:23:46

User: bbelt16ag

Tags: dd 'ddrescue'

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#3 Step! FIrst Pass quickly!

Quick grab of the data to the new disk!

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ddrescue -r 1 /dev/old_disk /dev/new_disk rescued.log

2011-01-08 11:22:00

User: bbelt16ag

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Commands to setup my new harddrive! #4 Step! Try to recover as much as possible

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wget -r --wait=5 --quota=5000m --tries=3 --directory-prefix=/home/erin/Documents/erins_webpages --limit-rate=20k --level=1 -k -p -erobots=off -np -N --exclude-domains=del.icio.us,doubleclick.net -F -i ./delicious-20090629.htm

2009-07-02 01:46:21

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: wget

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my command for downloading delicious web links,

just a alternative using a saved html file of all of my bookmarks. works well although it takes awhile.

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wget -H -r -nv --level=1 -k -p -erobots=off -np -N --exclude-domains=del.icio.us,doubleclick.net --exclude-directories=

2009-05-18 18:05:19

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: wget

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my command for downloading delicious web links,

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cat -n $file | tail -n 100 && head -n number-of-lines-you-want-to-keep > newfile

2009-02-15 01:02:10

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: cat head tail

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removing those pesky malformed lines at the end of a text file..

tells you the number of lines in said file, and then tail the last 100 lines ( or how many are messed up) then u take the total amount of lines and then subract the 100 or so lines u DONT WANT, then do a head -n $new_number and then redirect it to new file.db

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watch "df | grep /this/folder/"

2009-02-06 01:25:58

User: bbelt16ag

Functions: watch

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shows the space of a folder in bytes ever two seconds.

my $.02