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Commands by potatoface

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wtf is <acronym>
2010-08-24 20:14:53
User: potatoface
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translates acronyms for you

very handy if you are in irc and absolutely don't know what these guys are talking about. this is a netbsd command, if you are lucky it exists in your distro's package database.

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find . -type f -mtime -1 \! -type d -exec ls -l {} \;
2010-08-24 20:01:21
User: potatoface
Functions: find ls
Tags: file file time
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list all files modified in the last 24 hours descending from current directory
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
2010-08-24 19:57:24
User: potatoface
Functions: find xargs
Tags: md5sum recursive md5
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calculate md5 sums for every file in a directory tree

an alternative

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while true; do du -s <file_or_directory>; sleep <time_interval>; done
2010-08-24 19:55:13
User: potatoface
Functions: du sleep
Tags: file directory directory size,du
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continuously check size of files or directories

very handy if you copy or download a/some file(s) and want to know how big it is at the moment

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sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' < <file> > <file>.out; mv <file>.out <file>
2010-08-23 21:38:08
User: potatoface
Functions: mv sed
Tags: file
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delete all leading and trailing whitespace from each line in file
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sed 's/^[ \t]*//' < <file> > <file>.out; mv <file>.out <file>
2010-08-23 21:37:14
User: potatoface
Functions: mv sed
Tags: file
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delete all leading whitespace from each line in file
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sed 's/[ \t]*$//' < <file> > <file>.out; mv <file>.out <file>
2010-08-23 21:35:11
User: potatoface
Functions: mv sed
Tags: file
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delete all trailing whitespace from each line in file
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grep -vh '^[[:space:]]*\(#\|$\)' <file>
2010-08-23 20:59:41
User: potatoface
Functions: grep
Tags: file
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cat a config file removing all comments and blank lines
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<commmand>; if [[ "$?" = 0 ]]; then echo ':)'; else echo ':('; fi
2010-08-23 20:35:31
User: potatoface
Functions: echo
Tags: fun funny
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display a smiling smiley if the command succeeded and a sad smiley if the command failed

you could save the code between if and fi to a shell script named smiley.sh with the first argument as and then do a smiley.sh to see if the command succeeded. a bit needless but who cares ;)

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curl "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$(echo "$@" | sed 's/ /-/g')/$(echo -n $@ | base64)/plaintext"
2010-08-23 20:25:13
User: potatoface
Tags: search, commandlinefu api
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Search commandlinefu.com from the command line using the API

for me the above command didn't work for more than one argument but this one does

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