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Commands by rodolfoap

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alias Z=base64&&Z=dG91Y2ggUExFQVNFX1NUT1BfQU5OT1lJTkdfQ09NTUFORExJTkVGVV9VU0VSUwo=&&$(echo $Z|Z -d)
2010-12-24 14:29:19
User: rodolfoap
Functions: alias echo
Tags: touch base64
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Command for JOHN CONS

Would create a file with a meaningful title. Dedicated to John Cons, who is annoying us users. Merry Christmas!!!

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curl -s http://boards.4chan.org/wg/|sed -r 's/.*href="([^"]*).*/\1\n/g'|grep images|xargs wget
2010-12-12 06:32:19
User: rodolfoap
Functions: grep sed xargs
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Download all images from a 4chan thread

Im' not interested in images, but that's how I would do it.

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(for FILE in $@; do echo $[100*++x/$#]; command-for-each-parameter; done)|zenity --progress --auto-close
2010-10-05 10:07:04
User: rodolfoap
Functions: echo
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Zenity percent progressbar for scripts accepting parameters

Shows a zenity progressbar for each file in a script, see the samble output. Works with any number, less, equal or greater than 100.

x is not initially defined. If used twice in the script, set it:

x=0

(for FILE in $@; do echo $[100*++x/$#]; command... "$FILE"; done)|zenity --progress --auto-close

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pdftk in.pdf burst
2010-02-10 13:31:36
User: rodolfoap
Tags: pdftk
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split a multi-page PDF into separate files

Simple alternative to the previous submitted one

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printf "%50s\n"|tr ' ' -
2010-01-07 08:49:46
User: rodolfoap
Functions: printf tr
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Print a row of 50 hyphens

Better -and faster- using bash printf.

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A=1;B=100;X=0;C=0;N=$[$RANDOM%$B+1];until [ $X -eq $N ];do read -p "N between $A and $B. Guess? " X;C=$(($C+1));A=$(($X<$N?$X:$A));B=$(($X>$N?$X:$B));done;echo "Took you $C tries, Einstein";
2009-12-16 13:24:23
User: rodolfoap
Functions: read
Tags: Game
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Numbers guessing game

Felt like I need to win the lottery, and wrote this command so I train and develop my guessing abilities.

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mkdir myicons && find /usr/share/icons/ -type f | xargs cp -t myicons
2009-12-09 17:43:28
User: rodolfoap
Functions: cp find mkdir xargs
Tags: icons
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Collect a lot of icons from /usr/share/icons (may overwrite some, and complain a bit)

Today I needed to choose an icon for an app. My simpler way: put all of /usr/share/icons in myicons folder and brows'em with nautilus. Then rm -r 'ed the entire dir.

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find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name .\*
2009-11-24 22:18:33
User: rodolfoap
Functions: find
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Find all dotfiles and dirs

find makes it easier, filtering . and ..

maxdepth could be removed, finding entries recursively. Removing mindepth causes . to appear

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