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

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** 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

This command might not be useful for most of us, I just wanted to share it to show power of command line.

Download simple text version of novel David Copperfield from Poject Gutenberg and then generate a single column of words after which occurences of each word is counted by sort | uniq -c combination.

This command removes numbers and single characters from count. I'm sure you can write a shorter version.

There was another line that was dependent on having un-named screen sessions. This just wouldn't do. This one works no matter what the name is. A possible improvement would be removing the perl dependence, but that doesn't effect me.

When Ldapsearch queries an Active directory server, all the dates are shown using a timestamp of 18 digits. This perl regexp decodes them in a more human friendly notation. 11644473600 corresponds to some microsoft epoch.

Converts windows lined-style file to unix.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

Can be used to convert from linux2dos : just invert \r\n and \n.

This command will replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in the current working directory and any sub-directories.

Finds all directories containing more than 99MB of files, and prints them in human readable format. The directories sizes do not include their subdirectories, so it is very useful for finding any single directory with a lot of large files.

Running 'cpan Module::Name' will install that module from CPAN. This is a simple way of using a similar command to install a packaged Perl module from a Debian archive using apt-get.

recursively traverse the directory structure from . down, look for string "oldstring" in all files, and replace it with "newstring", wherever found

also:

On command mode in Vim you can save parts of the current buffer in another file.

* The 'n' value represents the first line of the new file.

* The 'm' value represents the last line of the new file.

* newfile.txt is the newfile.

The results are similar to this command in perl: