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Commands tagged bsd

Terminal - Commands tagged bsd - 6 results

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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cd /usr/home && for i in *;do chsh -s bash $i;done

2009-12-31 18:48:53

User: casidiablo

Functions: bash cd chsh

Tags: bsd FreeBSD users chsh

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Chage default shell for all users [FreeBSD]

This command will set bash as the default shell for all users in a FreeBSD system.

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file -i <textfile>

2009-09-08 01:33:19

User: juvenn

Functions: file

Tags: Linux bsd encoding charset

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Detect encoding of a text file

This command gives you the charset of a text file, which would be handy if you have no idea of the encoding.

ifconfig | grep "0xffffffff" | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs -n 1 ifconfig em0 delete

2009-08-04 05:18:36

User: vwal

Functions: awk grep ifconfig xargs

Tags: Network bsd FreeBSD aliases rc.conf

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Delete all aliases for a network interface on a (Free)BSD system

The example command deletes all aliases for network interface 'em0' assuming that the aliases have netmask of 255.255.255.255 and the master IP has some other netmask (such as 255.255.255.0). See here -> http://my.galagzee.com/2009/07/22/deleting-all-network-interface-aliases/ for more on the rationale of this command.

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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.