(Apparently it is too long so I put it in sample output, I hope that is OK.)

Run the long command (or put it in your .bashrc) in sample output then run:

Voila! Your contacts' emails will appear.

Facebook seems to have gotten rid of the picture encoding of emails and replaced it with a text based version making it easy to scrape!

Needs curl to run and it was made pretty quickly so there might be bugs.

You set the file/dirname transfer variable, in the end point you set the path destination, this command uses pipe view to show progress, compress the file outut and takes account to change the ssh cipher. Support dirnames with spaces.

Merged ideas and comments by http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4379/copy-working-directory-and-compress-it-on-the-fly-while-showing-progress and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3177/move-a-lot-of-files-over-ssh

Just refining last proposal for this check, showing awk power to make more complex math (instead /1024/1024, 2^20). We don't need declare variable before run lsof, because $(command) returns his output. Also, awk can perform filtering by regexp instead to call grep. I changed the 0.0000xxxx messy output, with a more readable form purging all fractional numbers and files less than 1 MB.

Although Exim will purge frozen (undeliverable) messages over time, the command "exim -Mrm #id#" where #id# is a particular message ID will purge a message immediately. Being lazy, I don't want to type the command for each frozen message, so I wrote the one-liner to do it for me.

What happens here is we tell tar to create "-c" an archive of all files in current dir "." (recursively) and output the data to stdout "-f -". Next we specify the size "-s" to pv of all files in current dir. The "du -sb . | awk ?{print $1}?" returns number of bytes in current dir, and it gets fed as "-s" parameter to pv. Next we gzip the whole content and output the result to out.tgz file. This way "pv" knows how much data is still left to be processed and shows us that it will take yet another 4 mins 49 secs to finish.

Credit: Peteris Krumins http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/

Only need to install Image Magick package.

Display a xkcd comic with its title and save it in /tmp directory

If you prefer to view the newest xkcd, use this command:

I wasn't sure how to display the image, so I thought I'd try xml for a different twist.

as unixmonkey7109 pointed out, first awk parse replaces three steps.

It's not a big line, and it *may not* work for everybody, I guess it depends on the detail of access_log configuration in your httpd.conf. I use it as a prerotate command for logrotate in httpd section so it executes before access_log rotation, everyday at midnight.

This bash function uses albumart.org to find the cover for an album. It returns an amazon.com url to the image.

Usage: albumart [artist] [album]

These arguments can be reversed and if the album name is distinct enough, it may be possible to omit the artist.

The command can be extended with wget to automatically download the matching image like this:

This function uploads images to http://omploader.org and then prints out the links to the file.

Some coloring can also be added to the command with:

Simple MAC adrress, thanks to ifconfig.

Sometimes, you don't really care about all the other information that ifconfig spits at you (however useful it may otherwise be). You just want an IP. This strips out all the crap and gives you exactly what you want.

Calculating series with awk only, no need for seq: add numbers from 1 to 100

Variations:

1+3+...+(2n-1) = n^2

1/2 + 1/4 + ... = 1

Handled all within awk. Takes the value from $PWD and constructs directory structures and runs commands against them. The gsub() call is not necessary, but added for better visibility.

If a variable DIR is given on the awk command-line, then that directory is used instead:

draw `vmstat ` data using gnuplot

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.