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Commands tagged syntax

Terminal - Commands tagged syntax - 6 results

cmdfu(){ local t=~/cmdfu;echo -e "\n# $1 {{{1">>$t;curl -s "commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$1/`echo -n $1|base64`/plaintext"|sed '1,2d;s/^#.*/& {{{2/g'>$t;vim -u /dev/null -c "set ft=sh fdm=marker fdl=1 noswf" -M $t;rm $t; }

2012-02-21 05:43:16

User: AskApache

Functions: echo rm sed vim

Tags: bash vim tee sed grep curl commandlinefu api askapache syntax

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Search commandlinefu and view syntax-highlighted results in vim

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.

find . -name \*.php -exec php -l "{}" \;

2011-08-02 12:12:32

User: Koobiac

Functions: find

Tags: exec PHP check name syntax

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Check syntax for all PHP files in the current directory and all subdirectories

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perl -mText::Highlight -E 'say Text::Highlight->new(ansi => 1)->highlight(Perl => do { local (@ARGV,$/) = shift; <> }) ' path/to/perl-file.pl

2011-07-12 04:55:12

User: dbr

Functions: perl

Tags: perl ansi syntax highlight

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Syntax Highlight your Perl code

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php -s source.php > source.html

2011-03-10 15:11:35

User: ruslan

Tags: PHP syntax highlight

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Syntax highlight PHP source

Creates HTML code from PHP source

perl -MText::Highlight -E '$h=Text::Highlight->new(ansi=>1); my $text=do{local $/; open my $fh, "<", $ARGV[0]; <$fh>}; say $h->highlight("Perl", $text);' path/to/perl-file.pl

2011-01-31 05:52:43

User: doherty

Functions: perl

Tags: perl ansi syntax highlight

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Syntax Highlight your Perl code

This uses Text::Highlight to output the specified Perl file with syntax highlighting. A better alternative is my App::perlhl - find it on the CPAN: http://p3rl.org/App::perlhl

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for code in $(find . -type f -name '*.p[ml]'); do perl -c "$code"; done

2010-05-29 23:26:40

User: udog

Functions: find perl

Tags: perl directory syntax

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Check syntax of all Perl modules or scripts underneath the current directory

Finds all *.p[ml]-files and runs a perl -c on them, checking whether Perl thinks they are syntactically correct