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Commands tagged dot

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echo 'graph{node[shape=record];rankdir=LR;matrix[label="{1|2|3}|{4|5|6}|{7|8|9}",color=red]}' | dot -Tpng | display
2011-12-28 04:50:09
User: kev
Functions: dot echo
Tags: dot
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draw matrix using dot
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awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"; print "digraph{"}{split($4, a, ","); for (i in a) printf "\"%s\" [shape=box]\n\"%s\" -> \"%s\"\n", $1, a[i], $1}END{print "}"}' /etc/group|display
2011-12-04 01:56:44
User: point_to_null
Functions: awk printf
Tags: ImageMagick awk dot
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Print diagram of user/groups

Parses /etc/group to "dot" format and pases it to "display" (imagemagick) to show a usefull diagram of users and groups (don't show empty groups).

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lsmod | awk 'BEGIN{print "digraph{"}{split($4, a, ","); for (i in a) print $1, "->", a[i]}END{print "}"}'|display
2011-12-04 01:41:23
User: point_to_null
Functions: awk lsmod
Tags: ImageMagick awk lsmod dot
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Draw kernel module dependancy graph.

parse "lsmod" output to "dot" format and pass it to "display". Without perl!

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lsmod | perl -e 'print "digraph \"lsmod\" {";<>;while(<>){@_=split/\s+/; print "\"$_[0]\" -> \"$_\"\n" for split/,/,$_[3]}print "}"' | dot -Tpng | display -
2011-11-27 14:02:35
User: bandie91
Functions: dot lsmod perl
Tags: perl lsmod dot modules
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Draw kernel module dependancy graph.

parse `lsmod' output and pass to `dot' drawing utility then finally pass it to an image viewer

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rm -r .[!.]*
2011-03-12 23:53:56
User: RanyAlbeg
Functions: rm
Tags: rm dot
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Deal with dot files safely
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rm -rf .[!.]*
2011-03-11 07:39:42
User: Natureshadow
Functions: rm
Tags: rm dot
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Deal with dot files safely
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rm -rf .??*
2011-03-11 07:21:58
User: greggster
Functions: rm
Tags: rm dot
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Deal with dot files safely

rm -rf .* matches ".." and thus one goes up a level and wipes out more than intended.

In bash, .??* safely accomplishes what one intends - remove those .files

The ? matches most characters except "/", thus .?? does not match ../ and so one is safe.

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