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Terminal - Commands tagged commandlinefu - 11 results
curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/$1/xml | awk -F'</?div[^>]*>' '/class=\"command\"/{gsub(/&quot;/,"\"",$2); gsub(/&lt;/,"<",$2); gsub(/&gt;/,">",$2); gsub(/&amp;/,"\\&",$2); cmd=$2} /class=\"num-votes\"/{printf("%3i %s\n", $2, cmd)}'
2010-02-16 17:24:45
User: putnamhill
Functions: awk
0

This version prints current votes and commands for a user. Pass the user as an argument. While this technically "fits" as a one liner, it really is easier to look at as a shell script with extra whitespace. :)

username=bartonski;curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/$username/json|perl -e 'BEGIN{$s=0;$n=0};END{print "Score: $s\nEntries: $n\nMean: ";printf "%3.2f\n",$s/$n}' -0173 -nae 'foreach $f (@F){if($f =~ /"votes":"(-*\d+)"/){$s += $1; $n++;}}'
2010-02-16 01:03:29
User: bartonski
Functions: perl
1

Like command #4845, prints score, number of entries, and average score.

username=matthewbauer; curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/$username/json | tr '{' '\n' | grep -Eo ',"votes":"[0-9\-]+","' | grep -Eo '[0-9\-]+' | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/+$/\n/' | bc
2010-02-14 04:32:36
User: matthewbauer
Functions: grep sed tr
6

This will calculate the your commandlinefu votes (upvotes - downvotes).

Hopefully this will boost my commandlinefu points.

clfavs(){ URL="http://www.commandlinefu.com";wget -O - --save-cookies c --post-data "username=$1&password=$2&submit=Let+me+in" $URL/users/signin;for i in `seq 0 25 $3`;do wget -O - --load-cookies c $URL/commands/favourites/plaintext/$i >>$4;done;rm -f c;}
2009-09-30 16:43:08
User: suhasgupta
Functions: c++ wget
14

Usage: clfavs username password num_favourite_commands file_in_which_to_backup

while true; do curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3643/log-a-commands-votes | grep 'id="num-votes-' | sed 's;.*id="num-votes-[0-9]*">\([0-9\-]*\)</div>;\1;' >> votes; sleep 10; done
2009-09-26 00:55:24
User: matthewbauer
Functions: grep sleep
0

Log a command's votes,

then run:

gnuplot -persist <(echo "plot 'votes' with lines")
ethtool eth0
2009-08-28 04:22:03
User: unixbhaskar
0

This is an commandline utility to get fair piece of information about the attached network card.

vnstat
2009-08-28 04:14:42
User: unixbhaskar
-2

A wonderful command line utility to check the internet usage. It has got so many useful switch to display the data you want.Please visit the man page to get all the information.Get it from this website http://humdi.net/vnstat

cmdfu(){ curl "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$@/$(echo -n $@ | openssl base64)/plaintext"; }
wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/tenup | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -o '&lt;x&gt;' -n -t -m rss/channel/item -o '&lt;y&gt;' -n -v description -o '&lt;/y&gt;' -n -t -o '&lt;/x&gt;' | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m x/y -v code -n
2009-08-14 02:44:00
User: fsilveira
Functions: wget
0

This lengthy cryptic line will print the latest top 10 commandlinefu.com posts without their summaries. To print also their respective summaries use the following (even bigger) command line:

wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/tenup | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -o '<doc>' -n -t -m rss/channel/item -o '<item>' -n -o '<title>' -v title -o '</title>' -n -o '<description>' -v description -o '</description>' -n -o '</item>' -n -t -o '</doc>' | xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m doc/item -v description/code -n -v title -n -n

It is recommended to include this line into a shell script to be easily run, as I do myself. You could also use the following URLs to browse the top 3 commands:

wget -qO - http://www.commandlinefu.com/feed/threeup | xmlstarlet ...

.. or all others:

wget -qO - http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Command-line-fu | xmlstarlet ...

PS: You need to install "xmlstarlet" to run it. It is found in Debian APT repositories (apt-get install xmlstarlet) or under the http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ URL.

curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/<your username>/rss|gzip ->commandlinefu-contribs-backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).rss.gz
2009-08-10 12:43:33
Functions: date gzip
7

Use `zless` to read the content of your *rss.gz file:

zless commandlinefu-contribs-backup-2009-08-10-07.40.39.rss.gz
(curl -d q=grep http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'
2009-07-08 22:10:49
User: isaacs
Functions: egrep perl
1

There's probably a more efficient way to do this rather than the relatively long perl program, but perl is my hammer, so text processing looks like a nail.

This is of course a lot to type all at once. You can make it better by putting this somewhere:

clf () { (curl -d "q=$@" http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete 2>/dev/null) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/<a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +|\([0-9]+ votes,//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'; }

Then, to look up any command, you can do this:

clf diff

This is similar to http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch except that it's just one line, so more in the spirit of CLF, in my opinion.