Commands tagged cli (6)

  • Track flight information from the command line

    See the flight information from the CLI Use as a SH file or function, like: `./flight.sh os 336` Show Sample Output


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    flight_status() { curl --silent --stderr - "https://mobile.flightview.com/TrackByRoute.aspx?view=detail&al=$1&fn=$2&dpdat=$(date +%Y%m%d)" | html2text | grep -A19 "Status" ; } ; flight_status $1 $2
    sxiii · 2022-07-26 12:09:17 455
  • 附带节假日和阴历的命令行程序

    包括: 除夕(Chinese New Year?s Day)、清明(Tomb-Sweeping Day)、端午(Dragon Boat Festival)、中秋(Mid-Autumn Festival)等传统节日，以及元旦、五一、十一、儿童节、教师节等。 Show Sample Output


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    gcal -i -s1 -qcn --chinese-months -cezk .
    s5unty · 2010-12-17 10:07:43 3
  • Java app with dynamic classpath

    Lauching an app including jars in an adjacent lib folder to its classpath


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    java -jar app.jar -cp $(echo lib/*.jar | tr ' ' ':')
    xymor · 2012-10-29 12:51:46 16
  • Use aws cli exclusively to query useful information about instances in a VPC

    Following in the steps of a few other scripts on here, I thought I'd mix in the ability to add in an instance tag output into this. This can be super useful if you are using the "Name" tag as a hostname tag and feeding that into, say Route53 for DNS to reach the machine. Helps for scripting against later. Show Sample Output


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    aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=vpc-id,Values=<replace_with_id>" --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[ [Tags[?Key==`Name`].Value][0][0],PrivateIpAddress,InstanceId,State.Name,Placement.AvailabilityZone ]' --output table
    fydgit · 2015-08-27 21:52:58 10
  • Shutdown all VMWare ESX VMs from commandline

    This command will shutdown all VMs on an VMWare ESX host. First it tries to gracefully shutdown the VM. If that fails it will hard shutdown and the power off.


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    for vm in `/usr/bin/vmware-cmd -l`; do /usr/bin/vmware-cmd "${vm}" stop trysoft; done
    maxheadroom · 2011-09-15 06:56:49 3
  • Show best quote from reddit to your terminal

    The rsstail is the python version (python-rsstail). The final command pipe it on every new line to gammu and a connected phone rsstail -o -n 1 --f 'RedditQuote: {title}' http://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/new/.rss | while read line; do /usr/bin/gammu --sendsms TEXT +*yournumber* -text "$line"; done Show Sample Output


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    rsstail -o -n 1 --f 'RedditQuote: {title}' http://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/new/.rss
    Youpfu · 2014-01-08 15:33:48 8

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Simultaneously running different Firefox profiles
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Prints new content of files
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Shorten any Url using bit.ly API, using your API Key which enables you to Track Clicks
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scping files with streamlines compression (tar gzip)
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cd up a number of levels
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Get your external IP address ( 10 characters long )
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