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Commands by chrismccoy

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sed 's!<[Aa] *href*=*"\([^"]*\)"*>\([^<>]*\)</[Aa]>!\1,\2!g' links.html
2012-01-30 15:11:22
User: chrismccoy
Functions: sed
Tags: sed html
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convert html links into plain text with link anchor

reverse of my previous command 10006

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sed "s/\([a-zA-Z]*\:\/\/[^,]*\),\(.*\)/\<a href=\"\1\"\>\2\<\/a\>/"
2012-01-06 13:55:05
User: chrismccoy
Functions: sed
Tags: sed html link
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turn url and link text into a hyperlink

an extension of command 9986 by c3w, allows for link text.

http://google.com,search engine

will link the hyperlink with the text after the url instead of linking with the url as linktext

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grep -E '<DT><A|<DT><H3' bookmarks.html | sed 's/<DT>//' | sed '/Bookmarks bar/d' | sed 's/ ADD_DATE=\".*\"//g' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | tr '<A HREF' '<a href'
2011-05-26 22:21:01
User: chrismccoy
Functions: grep sed tr
Tags: sed grep chrome
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convert chrome html export to folders, links and descriptions

chrome only lets you export in html format, with a lot of table junk, this command will just export the titles of the links and the links without all that extra junk

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curl -s -O http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip ; unzip -q -o top-1m.csv.zip top-1m.csv ; head -1000 top-1m.csv | cut -d, -f2 | cut -d/ -f1 > topsites.txt
2010-11-01 01:25:53
User: chrismccoy
Functions: cut head
Tags: curl unzip cut
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get a list of top 1000 sites from alexa

this will dump a list of domains one per line into a text file

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curl -s http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=username | sed -n 's/\<followers_count\>//p' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//b'
2010-10-17 16:08:46
User: chrismccoy
Functions: sed
Tags: twitter
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show how many twitter followers a user has

replace username with the username you wish to check.

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