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Commands by sonic

Terminal - Commands by sonic - 4 results

find * -maxdepth 0 -type d

2013-02-25 21:10:49

User: sonic

Functions: find

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use the find command and have it not print trailing slashes

the advantage to doing it this way is that you can adjust the max depth to get more recursive results and run it on non GNU systems. It also won't print trailing slashes, which can easily be removed, but can be slightly annoying..

You could run:

# for file in `find * -maxdepth 0 -type d`;do ls -d $file;done

and in the ls -d part of the command you can put in whatever parameters you want to get things like permissions, time stamps, and ownership.

export HISTFILE=/dev/null

2013-02-18 16:37:01

User: sonic

Functions: export

Tags: history bash

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Let you vanish in the (bash) history.

just an alternative to setting the size, this allows you to scroll up and see your previous commands in a given session but when you logout the history is not saved. That's the only advantage to doing it this way..

for file in *; do convert $file -resize 800x600 resized-$file; done

2013-02-17 21:37:14

User: sonic

Functions: file

Tags: xargs convert

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resize all images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)

To ignore aspect ratio, run:

for file in *; do convert $file -resize 800x600! resized-$file; done

and all images will be exactly 800x600.

Use your shell of choice.. This was done in BASH.

wget -c or wget --continue

2013-02-17 21:12:00

User: sonic

Functions: wget

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wget with resume

I couldn't find this on the site and it's a useful switch. Great for large files.