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Commands by copremesis

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sleep 8h && while [ 1 ] ; do date "+Good Morning. It is time to wake up. The time is %I %M %p" | espeak -v english -p 0 -s 150 -a 100 ; sleep 1m; done
2010-06-23 17:34:54
User: copremesis
Functions: date sleep
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Speaking alarm clock

This ran on a ubuntu box using espeak for speaking text with the bash shell. On a mac you should use 'say'. Also you can change your alarm interval and your snooze interval which are currently 8 hours and 1 minute. I would run this via cron yet it's easier to disable if you run it as a command like this :P

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echo '<html><body><table>' > /tmp/bar.html && find / -name '*.ogg' | sort | awk '{print "<tr><td>"$1"</td><td><audio src=\""$1"\" controls='controls'></audio></td></tr>" }' >> /tmp/bar.html && echo '</table></body></html>' >> /tmp/bar.html
2010-06-01 17:40:50
User: copremesis
Functions: awk echo find sort
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HTML5 ogg player

find OGG audio files on your *nix box and listen to them using your web browser

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curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse|egrep '("Fin.*and"|<div class="command">.*</div>)'|sed 's/<[^<]*>//g'|ruby -rubygems -pe 'require "cgi"; $_=sprintf("\n\n%-100s\n\t#%-20s",CGI.unescapeHTML($_).chomp.strip, gets.lstrip) if $.%2'
2009-08-18 19:04:03
User: copremesis
Functions: egrep sed
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Scrape commands from commandline fu's 1st page

just bored here at work ... if your are daring ... add '| bash' .... enjoy

require 'ruby'

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cat large.xml | xclip
2009-07-08 16:30:07
User: copremesis
Functions: cat
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cat large file to clipboard

avoid mouse abuse and the constant struggle of balancing scroll velocity ... not to mention that burning sensation in your upper right shoulder ....

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unzip -lt foo.zip | grep testing | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm -r
2009-07-08 00:13:10
User: copremesis
Functions: awk grep rm xargs
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Remove annoying files from recently extracted zip archive

Inspired by http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2573/remove-all-files-previously-extracted-from-a-tar.gz-file. .... yet for zip files

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hexdump -e '90/1 "%_p" "\n"' /dev/mem | less
2009-05-12 16:20:57
User: copremesis
Functions: hexdump
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view the system memory in clear text

see what's in your memory right now... sometimes you find passwords, account numbers and url's that were recently used. Anyone have a safe command to clear the memory without rebooting?

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tar -cf - folder/ | gpg -c > folder.tpg
2009-05-08 19:20:08
User: copremesis
Functions: gpg tar
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Encrypted Tarballs

gpg's compression is as suitable as gzip's however your backups can now be encrypted.

to extract use:

gpg < folder.tpg | tar -xf -
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shred -n33 -zx file; rm file
2009-05-08 19:15:41
User: copremesis
Functions: rm shred
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Safe Delete

remove file that has sensitive info safely. Overwrites it 33 times with zeros

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for %f in (c) do dir %f:\*.jpg /s /p
2009-05-05 18:28:18
User: copremesis
Functions: dir
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Find all jpgs on the PC (DOS command)

there is no explicit find command in DOS you can create a batch file with this one and find all jpegs on the C drive ...

note: if creating a batch file "find.bat" the syntax changes to:

for %%f in (c) do dir %%f:\%1 /s /p

you can then use

find *.jpg
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w | egrep -v '(load|FROM)' | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/^/tty/' | awk '{print "echo \"The Matrix has you...\" >> /dev/" $1}' | bash
2009-04-29 22:04:56
User: copremesis
Functions: awk egrep sed
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send Everyone on your machine some love

This works just like write or wall ... cept one thing the sender is anonymous ... if you really want to drive everyone insane replace echo \"The Matrix has you...\" with cat /dev/urandom

nice one to do on April fool's day

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mkdir `date | sed 's/[: ]/_/g'`
2009-04-29 21:28:45
User: copremesis
Functions: mkdir sed
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journaling directories

use today's time stamp to make a unique directory for today or an hour ago ...

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