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Commands by torrid

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[[ $DISPLAY != "" ]] && [[ ${TERM%screen*} != "" ]] && tmux attach
2012-04-14 00:12:58
User: torrid
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Check if it's OK to spawn tmux. Bool's Rools.

The command cechks if we are connected to a X11 console, if the $TERM var noct yet contains a "screen" derivat, and only then attachs to tmux.

You could add a test for interactive shell [[ $- == *i* ]] but your .bashrc has that already, I bet.

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curl -s http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html | grep "<td" | grep ipa | sed -e 's#html">#\n#g' | cut -f 1 -d\< | grep -v "^\ \ *$"
2011-08-04 11:30:00
User: torrid
Functions: grep sed
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List of countries

#ugly, I know

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printf "%02d:%02d\n" $(curl -s "http://search.twitter.com/search?from=zurvollenstunde&rpp=1" | grep -E '(Es ist jetzt|ago)' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/[^[:digit:]]//g' | xargs )
2011-06-19 18:16:00
User: torrid
Functions: grep printf sed xargs
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Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

Calc the rough time from Twitter. Now with leading Zeroes.

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curl -s "http://search.twitter.com/search?from=zurvollenstunde&rpp=1" | grep -E '(Es ist jetzt|ago)' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/[^[:digit:]]//g' | xargs | sed -e 's#\ #:#'
2011-06-18 04:27:06
User: torrid
Functions: grep sed xargs
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Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

This combines @zurvollenstunde's hourly tweets and the "n minutes ago" from Twitter search.

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yes 1 | fdupes -rd $folder
2011-06-02 18:15:24
User: torrid
Functions: yes
Tags: deduplicate
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delete duplicate files

This command deletes all but the first occurrence of a duplicate file in one or more folders.

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mplayer $(wget -q -O - "http://europarse.real.com/hurl/gratishurl.ram?pid=eu_aljazeera&amp;file=al_jazeera_en_lo.rm" | sed -e 's#lo.rm#hi.rm#')
2011-01-30 14:36:37
User: torrid
Functions: sed wget
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Watch Al Jazeera Livestream directly in mplayer #jan25

One cannot call the high quality livestream directly, but command this gives you a session ID and the high quality stream. #egypt #jan25

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echo "Terrorist threat level: $(wget -q -O - http://is.gd/wacQtQ | tail -n 1 | awk -F\" '{ print $2 }')"
2011-01-27 16:11:50
User: torrid
Functions: echo
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Terrorist threat level text
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wget -q -O - http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ | grep ^127 >> /etc/hosts
2009-12-14 17:11:16
User: torrid
Functions: grep wget
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Block the 6700 worst spamhosts

The above url contains over 6700 of the common ad websites. The command just pastes these into your /etc/hosts.

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mpg123 `curl -s http://blip.fm/all | sed -e 's#"#\n#g' | grep mp3$ | xargs`
2009-11-07 14:48:01
User: torrid
Functions: grep mpg123 sed
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Play random music from blip.fm
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wget -q -O - `youtube-dl -b -g $url`| ffmpeg -i - -f mp3 -vn -acodec libmp3lame -| mpg123 -
2009-11-07 13:45:13
User: torrid
Functions: mpg123 wget
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Play music from youtube without download
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