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Commands by o0110o

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curl icanhazip.com
2011-11-15 19:57:01
User: o0110o
Tags: IP curl ip address
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Get your external public IP address

Grabs your external public IP.

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url="put_url_here";audio=$(youtube-dl -s -e $url);wget -q -O - `youtube-dl -g $url`| ffmpeg -i - -f mp3 -vn -acodec libmp3lame - > "$audio.mp3"
2011-11-15 19:09:52
User: o0110o
Functions: wget
Tags: youtube mp3
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Convert Youtube videos to MP3

Make your own MP3s from Youtube videos.

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grep -lr -e '<oldword>' * | xargs sed -i 's/<oldword>/<newword>/g'
2011-08-27 02:42:51
User: o0110o
Functions: grep sed xargs
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Search and Replace across multiple files

- grep for the word in a files, use recursion (to find files in sub directories), and list only file matches

-| xargs passes the results from the grep command to sed

-sed -i uses a regular expression (regex) to evaluate the change: s (search) / search word / target word / g (global replace)

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gnome-terminal -e "bash -c \"ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s $(xwininfo -root |sed -n 's/ -geometry \([0-9x]*\).*/\1/p') -i :0.0 -vcodec huffyuv -sameq ~/Desktop/screencast.avi; exec bash\""
2011-08-15 01:59:50
User: o0110o
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A video capture command which can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut.

A video capture command which can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut.

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mkdir save && for f in *.mp3; do lame -b xxx "$f" ./save/"${f%.mp3}.mp3"; done
2011-05-30 17:19:36
User: o0110o
Functions: mkdir
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Batch Convert MP3 Bitrate

Batch Convert MP3 Bitrate to xxxkbps, all the new files will be placed in a folder called "save". Please replace xxx with the desired bitrate. WARNING!!! This will erase any tag information; this is where Picard or EasyTAG will come in handy.

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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666
2010-08-22 23:38:30
User: o0110o
Functions: telnet
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The BOFH Excuse Server
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curl -s www.google.com/ig/api?weather=$(curl -s api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$(curl -s icanhazip.com) | sed -e'1d;3d' -e's/C.*: \(.*\)/\1/' -e's/ /%20/g' -e"s/'/%27/g") | sed 's|.*<t.*f data="\([^"]*\)"/>.*|\1\n|'
2010-02-14 19:44:54
User: o0110o
Functions: sed
Tags: geographical location google geoip weather external ip
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Geo Temp

Check your local temperature based on geolocation.

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xmlstarlet fo "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=$(curl -s api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$(curl -s icanhazip.com)... SEE SAMPLE OUTPUT
2010-02-11 06:32:44
User: o0110o
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Geo Weather

This command will determine an individuals local weather, based on their I.P. address. I had to learn a lot about SED and a little about XMLStarlet in order to achieve this. This command is my original work and there is much room for improvement; I look forward to any constructive feedback.

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curl --user "USERNAME:PASSWORD" -d status="MESSAGE_GOES_HERE $(curl -s tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=URL_GOES_HERE) $(curl -s api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$(curl ip.appspot.com))" -d source="cURL" twitter.com/statuses/update.json -o /dev/null
2010-01-23 02:21:57
User: o0110o
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A command to post a message to Twitter that includes your geo-location and a short URL.

A command to post a message to Twitter that includes your geo-location and a short URL. The link shortening service is provide by TinyURL, the geo-location service is provided by HostIP and the IP address lookup service is provided by AppSpot. This is an upgrade of an of one of my previous contributions: http://tinyurl.com/yd2xtzv.

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curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*\(http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://bit.ly/?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*\(shortened-url"...............
2010-01-11 01:11:27
User: o0110o
Functions: sed uniq
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This command will shorten any URL the user inputs. What makes this command different is that it utilizes 5 different services and gives you 5 different outputs.

This command will shorten any URL the user inputs. What makes this command different is that it utilizes 5 different services and gives you 5 different outputs: is.gd, bit.ly, u.nu, geekology.co.za, and tinyurl.

curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*\(http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://bit.ly/?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*\(shortened-url" value="http:\/\/bit.ly\/[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9]*\).*/\1/p' \ | sed -n 's/.*\(http:\/\/bit.ly\/[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9]*\).*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://geekology.co.za/shortii/create.php?u=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*\(http:\/\/geekology.co.za\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://u.nu/unu-api-simple?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*\(http:\/\/u.nu\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*\(http:\/\/is.gd\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p' \ | uniq echo ""

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curl --user "USERNAME:PASSWORD" -d status="MESSAGE_GOES_HERE $(curl -s http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=URL_GOES_HERE)" -d source="cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json -o /dev/null
2010-01-11 00:59:13
User: o0110o
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A command to post a message and an auto-shortened link to Twitter. The link shortening service is provide by TinyURL.

A command to post a message and an auto-shortened link to Twitter. The link shortening service is provided by TinyURL.

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