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Commands by ksaver

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for i in $(find . -type f -exec sha1 -r {} \+ |tee .hashes.tmp |awk '{print $1}' |sort |uniq -d); do grep $i .hashes.tmp; echo; done;
2011-08-03 09:40:59
User: ksaver
Functions: awk find grep sort tee uniq
Tags: find duplicate
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Find duplicate files, using sha1 hash

Tested under FreeBSD...

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WRDS="word1 word2 wordN"; while [ 1 ];do curl -s http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss |grep '<description>' |cut -d '>' -f 2 |cut -d '<' -f 1 > .twitt.tmp && for word in $WRDS;do grep --color=auto -i $word .twtt.tmp;done;sleep 300;done
2009-07-15 18:30:02
User: ksaver
Functions: cut grep
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Single Line Twitter-Tracker

Search [or track] for a list of words, in the Twitter Public Time Line. Connect every 5 min to get new results [due to the "150 per hour" rate limit].

(More info: http://bit.ly/qQaji)

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ls -1 |grep -v .jpg |xargs rm
2009-07-13 17:00:18
User: ksaver
Functions: grep ls xargs
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Delete files if not have some extension

Delete files in a directory, if those not have some extension. Useful if we want to maintain only one kind of file in our directories.

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