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Commands tagged cygwin

Terminal - Commands tagged cygwin - 7 results

while (true); do date --utc; done | uniq -c

2013-03-15 12:05:37

User: hute37

Functions: date uniq

Tags: cygwin performance

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fork performance test

grabbed from Andrew Aylett post:

http://superuser.com/questions/133313/can-i-speed-up-cygwins-fork

startx -- -fullscreen -noresize -unixkill

2013-02-07 11:54:19

User: hute37

Tags: X cygwin

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cygwin startx

in Cygwin, start X server fullscreen ...

For openGL, check here:

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~wongam/d18_cygwin_opengl_setup/cygwin_opengl_setup.html

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google "search terms" #see description for more details

2011-07-04 09:37:39

User: husmanahmed

Functions: more

Tags: bash cygwin google search

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search google on any OS

Inspired by: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8744/search-google-on-os-x

#!/bin/bash if [ -n "$1" ] then firefox 'http://www.google.com/search?q="'$1'"' else firefox 'http://www.google.com' fi

Ive aliased this script as 'google' on my system and I can type 'google "search terms"' to open firefox with my search terms. My first post here, if there are any improvements to be made please let me know in the comments.

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wget randomfunfacts.com -O - 2>/dev/null | grep \<strong\> | sed "s;^.*$.*$.*$;\1;" | while read FUNFACT; do notify-send -t $((1000+300*`echo -n $FUNFACT | wc -w`)) -i gtk-dialog-info "RandomFunFact" "$FUNFACT"; done

2010-04-02 09:43:32

User: mtron

Functions: grep read sed wc wget

Tags: Shell programming bash Linux sed wget grep unix shell redirection pipes cygwin bsd

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Working random fact generator

extension to tali713's random fact generator. It takes the output & sends it to notify-osd. Display time is proportional to the lengh of the fact.

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wget randomfunfacts.com -O - 2>/dev/null | grep \<strong\> | sed "s;^.*$.*$.*$;\1;"

2010-03-30 23:49:30

User: tali713

Functions: grep sed wget

Tags: Shell programming bash Linux sed wget grep unix shell redirection pipes cygwin bsd

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Working random fact generator

Though without infinite time and knowledge of how the site will be designed in the future this may stop working, it still will serve as a simple straight forward starting point.

This uses the observation that the only item marked as strong on the page is the single logical line that includes the italicized fact.

If future revisions of the page show failure, or intermittent failure, one may simply alter the above to read.

wget randomfunfacts.com -O - 2>/dev/null | tee lastfact | grep \<strong\> | sed "s;^.*$.*$.*$;\1;"

The file lastfact, can then be examined whenever the command fails.

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cat /dev/clipboard; $(somecommand) > /dev/clipboard

2009-07-10 18:48:21

User: sud0er

Functions: cat

Tags: windows cygwin

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Use Cygwin to talk to the Windows clipboard

I spent a bunch of time yesterday looking for the xsel package in Cygwin- turns out you can use the /dev/clipboard device to do the same thing.

lynx -dump randomfunfacts.com | grep -A 3 U | sed 1D

2009-05-05 07:52:10

User: xizdaqrian

Functions: grep sed

Tags: Shell programming bash Linux sed grep lynx unix shell redirection pipes cygwin bsd

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Working random fact generator

This is a working version, though probably clumsy, of the script submitted by felix001. This works on ubuntu and CygWin. This would be great as a bash function, defined in .bashrc. Additionally it would work as a script put in the path.