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Commands by miccaman

Terminal - Commands by miccaman - 18 results

cd "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications";ls > filepath

2012-05-04 08:52:06

User: miccaman

Functions: cd ls

Tags: ipad

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export iPad App list to txt file

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:%s!^!foo!

2011-04-13 11:57:18

User: miccaman

Tags: vim

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vim insert at beginning of multiple lines

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perl -e "tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/;" -pi.save $(find . -type f)

2010-11-25 12:48:39

User: miccaman

Functions: find perl

Tags: perl find regex

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recursive transform all contents of files to lowercase

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rm -rf `find . -type f -name *.htm`

2010-11-25 12:46:33

User: miccaman

Functions: rm

Tags: find rm

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recursive remove all htm files

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%s/?/\ï/ge | %s/?/\é/ge | %s/?/"/ge | %s/?/"/ge | %s/?/'/ge | %s/?/'/ge | %s/?/\ê/ge | %s/?/\/ge | %s/?/\è/ge | %s/?/\ó/ge | %s/?/\ö/ge | %s/?/\é/ge | %s/?/\–/ge | %s/?/\—/ge

2010-07-15 07:40:45

User: miccaman

Tags: vim

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chain search and replace special characters to html entities in gvim

a brief list of very common special characters in Dutch. Usefull for formatting Word source to html.

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for y in 2009 2010 2011; do cal $y; done

2009-07-10 09:06:01

User: miccaman

Functions: cal

Tags: Os X

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Printing multiple years with Unix cal command

src: http://tinyapps.org/weblog/nix/200907090700_linux_cal_print_multiple_years.html

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sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 50KByte/s;sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

2009-07-02 23:17:49

User: miccaman

Functions: sudo

Tags: Os X pipe

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Throttling Bandwidth On A Mac

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 50KByte/s

Set the bandwidth (bw) limit to any number you want. For example you could have a 15kb pipe for X application and then a 100kb pipe for another application and attach things to those pipes. If a port isn’t attached to a pipe, it runs at full speed. Change the number (in this case 1) to a different number for a different pipe.

The next step is to attach your port.

sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

In this case anything on port 80 (http) will be set to a limit of 50Kbyte/s. If you want to attach a second port to this pipe, repeat the command but change the port number at the end.

src : http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/12/throttling-bandwidth-on-a-mac.html

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echo "-------------" >> nicinfo.txt; echo "computer name x" >> nicinfo.txt; ifconfig | grep status >> nicinfo.txt; ifconfig | grep inet >> nicinfo.txt; ifconfig | grep ether >> nicinfo.txt; hostinfo | grep type >> nicinfo.txt;

2009-06-25 12:32:37

User: miccaman

Functions: echo grep ifconfig type

Tags: Os X ifconfig

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get linkspeed, ip-adress, mac-address and processor type from osx

get desired info from machine and pipe it txt file.

sudo /Applications/Utilities/Adobe\ Utilities.localized/Adobe\ Updater5/Adobe\ Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Updater

2009-06-25 08:07:47

User: miccaman

Functions: sudo

Tags: Os X

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Adobe Updater Crashes on Mac OS X Fix

adobe updater keeps popping up. (normal update fails, probably due to insufficient rights)

(src: http://aricsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/adobe-updater-crashes-on-mac-os-x-and.html)

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2009-06-19 12:20:10

User: miccaman

Tags: vim

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vim display hex value char under cursor

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:!start c:\progra~1\Opera\opera.exe http://www.commandlinefu.com

2009-06-19 12:19:00

User: miccaman

Tags: vim

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open an url with opera webbrowser from vim

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:r! echo %

2009-06-19 12:17:28

User: miccaman

Functions: echo

Tags: vim

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vim insert current filename

insert filename

Normal mode: "%p

Insert mode: %

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:source ~/.vimrc

2009-06-19 12:14:55

User: miccaman

Tags: vim

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load changes without logging in and out vim

src: daily vim blog

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:set nomore :argdo %s/foo/bar/g | update

2009-06-19 12:12:33

User: miccaman

Tags: vim

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%s across multiple files with Vim

src: http://www.ibrahim-ahmed.com/2008/01/find-and-replace-in-multiple-files-in.html

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find directory -size +nnn

2009-06-18 06:55:00

User: miccaman

Functions: find

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Find Files That Exceed a Specified Size Limit

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ls -s | sort -nr | more

2009-06-18 06:44:01

User: miccaman

Functions: ls sort

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find large files

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more /var/adm/messages

2009-05-29 12:10:18

User: miccaman

Functions: more

Tags: solaris

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view solaris system logs

read system logs of sun solaris 9

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init 6

2009-05-29 07:44:05

User: miccaman

Functions: init

Tags: solaris Reboot

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sun solaris 9 complete restart

init states on solaris are numbered

init 0 boot with prompt

init 5 shutdown

init 6 reboot

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