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(1) required: python-googl ( install by: pip install python-googl )
(2) get from google API console https://code.google.com/apis/console/
Shows sorted by query time, the headers of mysqlbinlog entries. Then is easy to locate the heavier events on the raw log dump
Get the first 10 google results form a querry, but showing only the urls from the results.
Use + to search diferent terms, ex: commandlinefu+google .
Written for Mac OSX. When you are working in a project and want to open it on Github.com, just type "gh" and your default browser will open with the repo you are in. Works for submodules, and repo's that you don't own.
You'll need to copy / paste this command into a gh.sh file, then create an alias in your bash or zsh profile to the gh.sh script. Detailed instructions here if you still need help:
Simpler and without all of the coloring gimmicks. This just returns a list of branches with the most recent first. This should be useful for cleaning your remotes.
This permit to convert an UNIX file to DOS file.
You can use it in a loop to convert multiple files, like :
for i in *.bat; do sed -i 's/$/\r/' $i; done
Here is the full function (got trunctated), which is much better and works for multiple queries.
function cmdfu () {
local t=~/cmdfu;
until [[ -z $1 ]]; do
echo -e "\n# $1 {{{1" >> $t;
curl -s "commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$1/`echo -n $1|base64`/plaintext" | sed '1,2d;s/^#.*/& {{{2/g' | tee -a $t > $t.c;
sed -i "s/^# $1 {/# $1 - `grep -c '^#' $t.c` {/" $t;
shift;
done;
vim -u /dev/null -c "set ft=sh fdm=marker fdl=1 noswf" -M $t;
rm $t $t.c
}
Searches commandlinefu for single/multiple queries and displays syntax-highlighted, folded, and numbered results in vim.
Not figured by me, but a colleague of mine.
See the total amount of data on an AIX machine.
It remove the square bracket and convert UNIX time to human readable time for all line of a stream (or file).
Use it with cat and '|' for know what is used in a conf file.
For example cat /etc/squid/squid.conf | sed -re '/^#/d ; s/#.*$// ; /^\s$/d' :
Show you what you use in your file conf.
It removes all comments and empty lines.
Empty lines are lines with nothing, a tab, or a space.
Delete all comments (#) on text :
It deletes the entire comment line and remove comments form end of others.
full command:
for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do; echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-\([0-9]\+\)-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "\([^"]*\)", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; at="$(sed 's/.*alt": "\(.*\)", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; convert -background white -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf -pointsize 26 -size ${xw}x -gravity Center caption:"$tt" tt.png; convert -background '#FFF9BD' -border 1x1 -bordercolor black -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf -pointsize 16 -size $(($xw - 2))x -gravity Center caption:"$at" at.png; th=$(identify -format '%h' tt.png); ah=$(identify -format '%h' at.png); convert -size ${xw}x$(($xh+$th+$ah+5)) "xc:white" tt.png -geometry +0+0 -composite $fn -geometry +0+$th -composite at.png -geometry +0+$(($th+$xh+5)) -composite ${fn%\.*}_cmp.png; echo -e "$fn $nn $xw $xh $th $ah \n$tt \n$at\n"; done
this assumes that all comics are saved as xkcd-[number]-[title].{png|jpg}.
it will then download the title and alt-text, create pictures from them, and put everything together in a new png-file.
it's not perfect, but it worked for nearly all my comics.
it uses the xkcd-json-interface.
though it's poorly written, it doesn't completely break on http://xkcd.com/859/
an extension of command 9986 by c3w, allows for link text.
http://google.com,search engine
will link the hyperlink with the text after the url instead of linking with the url as linktext
Useful for CSV files. In the command, the file in question is comma delimited but contains double quoted fields containing commas and contains no @ symbols (as confirmed with http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/9998/delimiter-hunting). This command converts the delimiting commas to @s while preserving the commas in the fields using the "uniqueString" to mark the ends of lines.
Use the -a flag to display all files, including hidden files. If you just want to display regular files, use a -1 (yes, that is the number one). Got this by RTFM and adding some sed magic.
[bbbco@bbbco-dt ~]$ ls -a | sed "s#^#${PWD}/#"
/home/bbbco/.
/home/bbbco/..
/home/bbbco/2011-09-01-00-33-02.073-VirtualBox-2934.log
/home/bbbco/2011-09-10-09-49-57.004-VirtualBox-2716.log
/home/bbbco/.adobe
/home/bbbco/.bash_history
/home/bbbco/.bash_logout
/home/bbbco/.bash_profile
/home/bbbco/.bashrc
...
[bbbco@bbbco-dt ~]$ ls -1 | sed "s#^#${PWD}/#"
/home/bbbco/2011-09-01-00-33-02.073-VirtualBox-2934.log
/home/bbbco/2011-09-10-09-49-57.004-VirtualBox-2716.log
/home/bbbco/cookies.txt
/home/bbbco/Desktop
/home/bbbco/Documents
/home/bbbco/Downloads
...
Print all lines between two line numbers
This command uses sed(1) to print all lines between two known line numbers in a file. Useful for seeing output in a log file, where the line numbers are known. The above command will print all lines between, and including, lines 3 and 6.