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grep -r <searchterm> *
showkey -a
xdotool getmouselocation
wmctrl -o 100,0
2012-01-19 14:36:20
User: totti
Tags: switc
0

For a demo try

wmctrl -o 100,0; sleep 3; wmctrl -o 1500,0; sleep 3; wmctrl -o 3000,0; sleep 3; wmctrl -o 4500,0;

Actually

wmctrl -o <width x Number>,0;

to switch to that workspace

cryptmount -m <name>
2012-01-17 18:02:47
User: totti
-2

In order to create a new encrypted filing system managed by cryptmount,

you can use the supplied 'cryptmount-setup' program, which can be used

by the superuser to interactively configure a basic setup.

Alternatively, suppose that we wish to setup a new encrypted filing

system, that will have a target-name of "opaque". If we have a free

disk partition available, say /dev/hdb63, then we can use this directly

to store the encrypted filing system. Alternatively, if we want to

store the encrypted filing system within an ordinary file, we need to

create space using a recipe such as:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/opaque.fs bs=1M count=512

.

cryptmount --generate-key 32 opaque

.

cryptmount --prepare opaque

.

mke2fs /dev/mapper/opaque

.

cryptmount --release opaque

.

mkdir /home/crypt

.

cryptmount -m opaque

.

cryptmount -u opaque

For detail see sample output

makeself <archive_dir> <file_name> <label>
2012-01-10 18:08:50
User: totti
-1

Used by virtualbox and others to create '.run' file.

cat <file> > /dev/null
2011-11-12 15:45:27
User: totti
Functions: cat
Tags: ram file cache
8

Best result when file size less than half of RAM size

stat --format "%s" <file>
curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/[0-9000:25] | grep -vE "_curl_|\.com by David" > clf-ALL.txt
2011-11-08 12:19:48
User: totti
Functions: grep
2

Faster then other method using wget

For obtain all commands use

nu=`curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse |grep -o "Terminal - All commands -.*results$" | grep -oE "[[:digit:],]{4,}" | sed 's/,//'`; curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/[0-"$nu":25] | grep -vE "_curl_|\.com by David" > clf-ALL.txt

For more version specific

nu=`curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse |grep -o "Terminal - All commands -.*results$" | grep -oE "[[:digit:],]{4,}" | sed 's/,//'`; curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/[0-"$nu":25] | grep -vE "_curl_|\.com by David" > clf-ALL_"$nu".txt

Also download dirctly from my dropbox

My drop box invitaion link is http://db.tt/sRdJWvQq . Use it and get free 2.5 GB space.

totem-video-thumbnailer -pg 25 in_video out_png
ffmpeg -ss 5 -i video.avi -vframes 1 -s 320x240 thumb.jpg
2011-10-31 17:19:33
User: totti
2

Faster thumbnail creation than '-itsoffset'

ffmpeg -itsoffset -4 -i test.avi -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320x240 test.jpg
read -d ""
2011-10-25 18:44:11
User: totti
Functions: read
1

Handle any bad named file which contains ",',\n,\b,\t,` etc

Store the file name as null character separated list

find . -print0 >name.lst

and retrieve it using

read -r -d ""

Eg:

find . -print0 >name.lst; cat name.lst| while IFS="" read -r -d "" file; do ls -l "$file"; done
find . ! -name "$(printf '*[\001-\037\177]*')"
echo "export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'" >> ~/.bashrc
2011-10-20 17:34:14
User: totti
Functions: echo
Tags: man less color
15

Add the followin to ~/.bashrc

#colour

export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'

export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;37m'

export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'

export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'

export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m'

export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'

export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'

filext () { echo ${1##*.}; }
echo "root=/dev/sda7" > /proc/param.conf
2011-09-27 18:06:53
User: totti
Functions: echo
0

Then exit from the shell.

exit

some time need to exit twice

exit exit

Now the OS will boot with the new parameters.

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/ubuntu /dev/sda
2011-09-27 17:51:56
User: totti
Functions: sudo
Tags: grub boot fix
-2

From live CD mount(open) the Ubuntu installed drive.

Copy the location (press Ctrl+l, Ctrl+c ) eg: /media/ubuntuuuu

Open terminal (Apllication->accessories->terminal)

Type this:

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/ubuntuuuu /dev/sda

(replace /media/ubuntuuuu with what u got (ie paste))

Will show success message. Now reboot

while read line; do echo $line; done <<< "$var"
2011-09-22 16:53:32
User: totti
Functions: echo read
-5

Consider the following simple situation [ reading something using while and read ]

[See script 1 in sample output]

---------------------------------------------------

The variable var is assigned with "nullll" at first. Inside the while loop [piped while] it is assigned with "whillleeee". [Onlly 2 assignments stmts]. Outside the loop the last assigned value for "var" [and no variable] inside the while can't be accessed [Due to pipe, var is executed in a sub shell].

In these type of situation variables can be accessed by modifying as follows.

[See script 2 in sample output]

___________________________

Vary helpful when reading a set of items, say file names, stored on a file [or variable] to an array an use it later.

Is there any other way 2 access variables inside and outside the loop ??

ls -i1 filename
tail -f ~/.bash_history
2011-09-15 19:35:09
User: totti
Functions: tail
Tags: watch
-1

Changes are displayed when they are written to the file

to exit

vi +4 /etc/mtab
2011-09-15 19:18:00
User: totti
Functions: vi
Tags: edit text line goto
1

This is not printing, real editing using the text editor.

awk '$3==$4' /etc/passwd
sed 's/.$//' Win-file.txt
cat aaaaaa 2>&-
nl file.txt > file_numbered.txt