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Commands by spaceyjase

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OLDIFS=$IFS; IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); for f in `find -daystart -mtime 0 -type f -printf "%f\n"`; do notify-send -t 0 "$f downloaded" ; done; IFS=$OLDIFS
2009-09-29 09:50:28
User: spaceyjase
Functions: echo
Tags: bash echo find gnome notify-send for IFS
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Notify Gnome user of files modified today

On a Gnome desktop, display a notification that a file modified/created today has downloaded. I use this in a script with get_iplayer's -c option so I know stuff has finished downloading ;)

The IFS stuff is to handle spaces in the filename. Command has been trimmed a bit 'cos I specify a directory arg to 'find'. On Debian-based systems you may need to install the 'libnotify-bin' package. Notice -daystart is used to tell mtime means 'today' rather than the last 24 hours.

It ain't perfect but it does the job :P

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wget `lynx -dump http://www.ebow.com/ebowtube.php | grep .flv$ | sed 's/[[:blank:]]\+[[:digit:]]\+\. //g'`
2009-08-02 14:09:53
User: spaceyjase
Functions: grep sed wget
Tags: bash sed wget grep lynx flv
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Grab all .flv files from a webpage to the current working directory

I wanted all the 'hidden' .flv files from the http link in the command line; wget seemed appropriate, fed with output from lynx, grep the flv files and the normalised via sed (to remove the numeric bullet). Similar to the 'Grab mp3 files' fu. Replace link with your own, grep arg with something more interesting ;) See here for something along the same lines...

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1006/grab-mp3-files-from-your-favorite-netcasts-mp3blog-or-sites-that-often-have-good-mp3s

Hope you find it useful! Improvements welcome, naturally.

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