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Commands tagged development

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wget -O LICENSE.txt http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
2010-12-01 11:38:55
User: tommed
Functions: wget
Tags: development license gpl
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Add a GPL license file to your project
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find . -name '*.html' -exec 'sed' 's/.*class="\([^"]*\?\)".*/\1/ip;d' '{}' ';' |sort -su
2009-09-06 18:43:18
User: kamathln
Functions: find sort
Tags: html development
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List out classes in of all htmls in directory

Lists out all classes used in all *.html files in the currect directory. usefull for checking if you have left out any style definitions, or accidentally given a different name than you intended. ( I have an ugly habit of accidentally substituting camelCase instead of using under_scores: i would name soemthing counterBox instead of counter_box)

WARNING: assumes you give classnames in between double quotes, and that you apply only one class per element.

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printf '\!:1\0\!:1\0\!:2' | mmencode | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/^/AUTH PLAIN /'
2009-08-04 05:04:50
User: vwal
Functions: printf sed tr
Tags: smtp testing development
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Create AUTH PLAIN string to test SMTP AUTH session

I use this as an alias:

alias authplain "printf '\!:1\0\!:1\0\!:2' | mmencode | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/^/AUTH PLAIN /'"

then..

# authplain someuser@somedomain.com secretpassword

AUTH PLAIN c29tZXVzZXJAc29tZWRvbWFpbi5jb20Ac29tZXVzZXJAc29tZWRvbWFpbi5jb20Ac2VjcmV0cGFzc3dvcmQ=

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