random(6) - random lines from a file or random numbers

change the *.avi to whatever you want to match, you can remove it altogether if you want to check all files.

The sort utility is well used, but sometimes you want a little chaos. This will randomize the lines of a text file.

BTW, on OS X there is no

option! There is also no

These are only in the newer GNU core...

This is also faster than the alternate of:

This dumps all of your installed perl's config information.

This pipeline will find, sort and display all files based on mtime. This could be done with find | xargs, but the find | xargs pipeline will not produce correct results if the results of find are greater than xargs command line buffer. If the xargs buffer fills, xargs processes the find results in more than one batch which is not compatible with sorting.

Note the "-print0" on find and "-0" switch for perl. This is the equivalent of using xargs. Don't you love perl?

Note that this pipeline can be easily modified to any data produced by perl's stat operator. eg, you could sort on size, hard links, creation time, etc. Look at stat and just change the '9' to what you want. Changing the '9' to a '7' for example will sort by file size. A '3' sorts by number of links....

Use head and tail at the end of the pipeline to get oldest files or most recent. Use awk or perl -wnla for further processing. Since there is a tab between the two fields, it is very easy to process.

if you want to only print the IP address from a file.

In this case the file will be called "iplist" with a line like "ip address 1.1.1.1"

it will only print the "1.1.1.1" portion

print scalar gmtime

notice what happens when there is more than one unread message in a thread...

also people please dont hardcode the password when you use curl. Leave it out and curl will ask you when it runs. Please...?

Checks the Gmail ATOM feed for your account, parses it and outputs a list of unread messages.

For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac:

If you want to see the name of the last person, who added a message to the conversation, change the greediness of the operators like this:

This finds all the PowerPC apps recognized by OS X.

A better version is:

system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType 2> /dev/null | perl -

wnl -e '$i=$j=$k=$p=0; @al=; $c=@al; while($j

s[$i].=$al[$j]; $i++ if ($al[$j]) =~ /^\s\s\s\s\S.*:$/; $j++} while($k

owerPC applications\n\n"'

but that is more than 255 characters...

When you have one of those (log)files that only has epoch for time (since no one will ever look at them as a date) this is a way to get the human readable date/time and do further inspection.

Mostly perl-fu :-/

works on Linux and Solaris. I think it will work on nearly all *nix-es

205413

real 0m0.497s

user 0m0.220s

sys 0m0.268s

205413

real 0m3.776s

user 0m3.340s

sys 0m0.424s

*********

** EDIT: turns out this perl liner is mostly masturbation. this is slightly faster:

sh-3.2$ time { find . -maxdepth 1|wc -l; }

205414

real 0m0.456s

user 0m0.116s

sys 0m0.328s

** EDIT: now a slightly faster perl version

sh-3.2$ time perl -e 'if(opendir D,"."){++$c foreach readdir D}print $c-1,"\n"'

205414

real 0m0.415s

user 0m0.176s

sys 0m0.232s

substitute the URL with your private/public XML url from calendar sharing settings

substitute the dates YYYY-mm-dd

adjust the perl parsing part for your needs

Fetches the IPs and ONLY the IPs from ifconfig. Simplest, shortest, cleanest.

Perl is too good to be true...

(P.S.: credit should go to Peteris Krumins at catonmat.net)

This command will output 1 if the given argument is a valid ip address and 0 if it is not.

There's probably a more efficient way to do this rather than the relatively long perl program, but perl is my hammer, so text processing looks like a nail.

This is of course a lot to type all at once. You can make it better by putting this somewhere:

Then, to look up any command, you can do this:

This is similar to http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch except that it's just one line, so more in the spirit of CLF, in my opinion.

OK, not the most useful but a good way to impress friends. Requires the "display" command from ImageMagick.

Good for summing the numbers embedded in text - a food journal entry for example with calories listed per food where you want the total calories. Use this to monitor and keep a total on anything that ouputs numbers.

Print out list of all branches with last commit date to the branch, including relative time since commit and color coding.

Returns tomorrow's date in the format yyyyMMdd

Returns yesterday's date in the format yyyyMMdd