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Commands by minnmass

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ls "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications" > filepath
2012-05-04 09:51:59
User: minnmass
Functions: ls
Tags: ipad
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export iPad App list to txt file

This will generate the same output without changing the current directory, and filepath will be relative to the current directory.

Note: it will (still) fail if your iTunes library is in a non-standard location.

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find . -name .svn -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' +
2010-12-15 19:14:24
User: minnmass
Functions: find rm
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Remove all .svn folders

With the plus instead of semicolon, find builds the (eg.) rm command like xargs does - invokes as few extra processes as possible.

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wget -k $URL
2010-08-21 17:39:53
User: minnmass
Functions: wget
Tags: wget
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transform relative URLs (shoddy hack but it works)

The "-k" flag will tell wget to convert links for local browsing; it works with mirroring (ie with "-r") or single-file downloads.

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find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.7z" -exec 7zr e '{}' ';'
2010-01-23 19:50:10
User: minnmass
Functions: find
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Extract all 7zip files in current directory taking filename spaces into account

Use find's built-in ability to call programs.

Alternatively,

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.7z" -print0 | xargx -0 -n 1 7zr e

would work, too.

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