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Commands tagged until

Terminal - Commands tagged until - 2 results

delay until 16 && import_db.sh

2012-03-01 12:38:32

User: oernii2

Tags: sleep oernii delay until

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delay: a simple scheduler

the "delay" utility is an invaluable tool for me. with gnu-screen it allows you to schedule something and have it run and output to the current terminal, unlike "at".

You can also use it like "sleep" with seconds and also with date:

delay until 13:33 friday && echo test

get it from: http://onegeek.org/~tom/software/delay/current/delay.c

(author: Tom Rothamel)

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testt(){ o=abcdefghLkprsStuwxOGN;echo $@;for((i=0;i<${#o};i++));do c=${o:$i:1};test -$c $1 && help test | sed "/^ *-$c/!d;1q;s/^[^T]*/-$c /;s/ if/ -/";done; }

2012-02-21 16:54:53

User: AskApache

Functions: echo sed test

Tags: bash find file for test stat builtin askapache printf for loop shift until

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View all file operator expressions for any file, test, stat

Applies each file operator using the built-in test.

testt /home/askapache/.sq

/home/askapache/.sq

-a True - file exists.

-d True - file is a directory.

-e True - file exists.

-r True - file is readable by you.

-s True - file exists and is not empty.

-w True - the file is writable by you.

-x True - the file is executable by you.

-O True - the file is effectively owned by you.

-G True - the file is effectively owned by your group.

-N True - the file has been modified since it was last read.

Full Function:

testt ()

{

local dp;

until [ -z "${1:-}" ]; do

dp="$1";

[[ ! -a "$1" ]] && dp="$PWD/$dp";

command ls -w $((${COLUMNS:-80}-20)) -lA --color=tty -d "$dp";

[[ -d "$dp" ]] && find "$dp" -mount -depth -wholename "$dp" -printf '%.5m %10M %#15s %#9u %-9g %#5U %-5G %Am/%Ad/%AY %Cm/%Cd/%CY %Tm/%Td/%TY [%Y] %p\n' -a -quit 2> /dev/null;

for f in a b c d e f g h L k p r s S t u w x O G N;

test -$f "$dp" && help test | sed "/-$f F/!d" | sed -e 's#^[\t ]*-$[a-zA-Z]\{1\}$ F[A-Z]*[\t ]* True if#-\1 "'$dp'" #g';

done;

shift;

done

}