Commands tagged bash

Bash can accept '0x' and '0' notation for hexidecimal and octal numbers, so you just have to output the values.

Schematics:

command [options] [paste your variable here] parameter

command [options] [paste entire column of variables here] parameter

...

(hard-code command "c" and parameter "e" according to your wishes: in example shown command = "cp -a" and parameter = "~")

Features:

- Quick exchange only variable part of a long command line

- Make variable part to be an entire column of data (i.e. file list)

- Full control while processing every single item

Hints:

Paste column of data from anywhere. I.e. utilize the Block Select Mode to drag, select and copy columns (In KDE Konsole with Ctrl+Alt pressed, or only Ctrl pressed in GNOME Terminal respectively).

Disadvantages:

You can paste only one single variable in a row. If there are more space separated variables in a row only first one will be processed, but you can arrange your variables in a column instead. To transpose rows to columns or vice versa look at Linux manual pages for 'cut' and 'paste'.

TODO:

- add edit mode to vary command "c" and parameter "e" on the fly

- add one edit mode more to handle every list item different

- add y/n/a (=All) instead of only y(=default)/n to allowed answers

Disclaimer:

The code is not optimized, only the basic idea is presented here. It's up to you to shorten code or extend the functionality.

Converts a number of bytes provided as input, to a human readable number.

Remove the dashes from a UUID using bash search and replace.

Just an other solution :)

Assumes that the files are named as such: 01-Filename.mp3

If your files are named differently, change the number of periods in the sed 's/...\(.*\)/\1' bit to match the numbers of characters you need to cut off the front of the file.

Note: This only writes the titles.

For those files in current folder that would be shown in `ls *ext`, for some extension ext, move/rename that file removing the .ext suffix from the file name.

It uses Bash's parameter substitution, as seen in

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PCTPATREF

(for analog use in prefix, see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PSOREX2 )

Gets the current system user running a process with the specified pid

By default bash history of a shell is appended (appended on Ubuntu by default: Look for 'shopt -s histappend' in ~/.bashrc) to history file only after that shell exits.

Although after having written to the history file, other running shells do *not* inherit

that history - only newly launched shells do.

This pair of commands alleviate that.

Takes effect immediately.

This fixes a bug found in the other scripts which fail when a branch has the same name as a file or directory in the current directory.

Bash history commands are those that begin with the character !

(eg. the most popular 'sudo !!' Explained here => http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/13).

By default bash immediately executes the history command.

Setting this shell option will make bash first allow you to verify/edit an

history command before executing it.

To set this option permanently, put this command in ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file.

To unset this option issue following command.

usage: tpb searchterm

example: tpb the matrix trilogy

This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order,

so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users

This is an "argument calculator" funktion. The precision is set to 4 and you can use dot (.) or comma (,) as decimal mark (which is great for german users with a comma on the numpad).

This opens a python command line. You can use math and random and float-division is enabled (without appending .0 to integers). I just don't know how to specify a standard precision.

use python as calculator, press ctrl+d to exit

reminder: when doing factions add atleast one decimal number like so

22.0/7 or 22/7.0

You could avoid xargs and sed in this case (shorter command and less forking): At least bash and zsh have some mighty string modifiers.

I would also suggest using find with exec option to get more flexibility. You may leave out or include "special" file for example.

Unmounts all CIFS-based network drives. Very nice for shutting down network mounts on a Linux laptop just prior to going to sleep.

List usernames & their assigned shell.

If their home directory is in /home and excepting those account that have their login shell set to: noshell, false, nologin

Enhancement for the 'busy' command originally posted by busybee : less chars, no escape issue, and most important it exclude small files ( opening a 5 lines file isn't that persuasive I think ;) )

This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim.

Just hold Ctrl-R and start typing a string (e.g. ssh). The shell will search for that string in the command history. Keep pressing Ctrl-R to cycle through all commands matching pattern. This works in other "sub-shells" too, like a python interactive session.