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ls output with mode in octal

this requires the use of a throwaway file. it outputs a shell function. assuming the throwaway file is f.tmp usage: >f.tmp;lso f.tmp > f.tmp; . f.tmp;rm f.tmp;lso -l ... notes: credit epons.org for the idea. however his version did not account for the sticky bit and other special cases. many of the 4096 permutations of file permissions make no practical sense. but chmod will still create them. one can achieve the same sort of octal output with stat(1), if that utility is available. here's another version to account for systems with seq(1) instead of jot(1): lso(){ case $# in 1) { case $(uname) in FreeBSD) jot -w '%04d' 7778 0000 7777 ;; *) seq -w 0000 7777 ;; esac; } \ |sed ' /[89]/d s,.*,printf '"'"'& '"'"';chmod & '"$1"';ls -l '"$1"'|sed s/-/./,' \ |sh \ |{ echo "lso(){"; echo "ls \$@ \\"; echo " |sed '"; sed ' s, ,@,2; s,@.*,,; s,$.* $$.*$,s/\2/\1/,; s, ,,'; echo \'; echo }; }; ;; *) echo "usage: lso tmp-file"; ;; esac; } this won't print out types[1]. but its purpose is not to examine types. its focus is on mode and its purpose is to make mode easier to read (assuming one finds octal easier to read). 1. one could of course argue "everything is a file", but not always a "regular" one. e.g., a "directory" is really just a file comprising a list.
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lso(){ jot -w '%04d' 7778 0000 7777 |sed '/[89]/d;s,.*,printf '"'"'& '"'"';chmod & '"$1"';ls -l '"$1"'|sed s/-/./,' \ |sh \ |{ echo "lso(){";echo "ls \$@ \\";echo " |sed '";sed 's, ,@,2;s,@.*,,;s,$.* $$.*$,s/\2/\1/,;s, ,,';echo \';echo };};}

argv · 2012-01-08 05:48:24 4
Convert Hex to String
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echo 474e552773204e6f7420556e697821 | sed -e 's/$.\{2\}$/\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e

jcubic · 2012-01-14 10:26:29 540
bash: display CURRENT time in prompt, when entering a command

Test'd & work'd fine on: HP-UX, SUSE, with bash # "Work'd" 's are wellcome! APu Show Sample Output
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```
@18:09:03 SanyiGepe:/$ date ; sleep 3 ; date
Fri Jan 20 18:09:03 MET 2012
Fri Jan 20 18:09:06 MET 2012
@18:09:06 SanyiGepe:/$
```
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$ echo -e '\n## [hu_HU]Aktualis ido/datum a prompt-ba (PS1)\n# TraceBack: http://goo.gl/MlkcQ\nPS1="@\$(date +%H:%M:%S) $PS1"\n' >>~/.bashrc

APuHun · 2012-01-20 17:17:12 9
Generate Random Text based on Length

Ever need to get some text that is a specific number of characters long? Use this function to easily generate it! Doesn't look pretty, but sure does work for testing purposes! Show Sample Output
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```
[bbbco ~]$ genRandomText 122
onzwxfeknlnvycuccvki dybtrqibdpgl aeclwkfpuxkohucy cqlmpbkwgcqesimxupdkqiymucljhitffb czegujyofidnxnvrkolhmudslpklbjnpmun
[bbbco ~]$ genRandomText 122 | wc -m
122

[bbbco ~]$ genRandomText 27
b bpglferrcsrtveiop umn nq
[bbbco ~]$ genRandomText 27 | wc -m
27
```
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genRandomText() { a=( a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z );f=0;for i in $(seq 1 $(($1-1))); do r=$(($RANDOM%26)); if [ "$f" -eq 1 -a $(($r%$i)) -eq 0 ]; then echo -n " ";f=0;continue; else f=1;fi;echo -n ${a[$r]};done;echo"";}

bbbco · 2012-01-20 21:18:16 4
display memory usage of a process

page where I got inspiration: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5473/get-acurate-memory-usage-of-a-process-in-megabytes and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10022/display-the-top-10-running-processes-sorted-by-memory-usage
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TOTAL_RAM=`free | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $2 }'`; PROC_RSS=`ps axo rss,comm | grep [h]ttpd | awk '{ TOTAL += $1 } END { print TOTAL }'`; PROC_PCT=`echo "scale=4; ( $PROC_RSS/$TOTAL_RAM ) * 100" | bc`; echo "RAM Used by HTTP: $PROC_PCT%"

0disse0 · 2012-02-03 16:10:36 12
Epoch time conversion

0x Show Sample Output
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```
Wed Feb 1 12:41:50 JST 2012
```
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echo $(date -d @$((0x4f28b47e)))

h_nose · 2012-02-07 11:14:08 15
echo text in fancy manner

change the time that you would like to have as print interval and just use it to say whatever you want to Show Sample Output
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```
sayspeed "Who are you?"

Who are you?

----

sayspeed "Loading..."

Loading...
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sayspeed() { for i in $(seq 1 `echo "$1"|wc -c`); do echo -n "`echo $1 |cut -c ${i}`"; sleep 0.1s; done; echo "";}

kundan · 2012-02-11 05:51:42 3
Tracklist reaplace backspace to '-'

for music file of mp3.zing.vn Show Sample Output
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```
Gui-Ngan-Loi-Yeu-Tuan-Hung.mp3
Heal-The-World-Michael-Jackson.mp3
Khong-Tin-Mot-Som-Mai-Binh-Yen.mp3
Kisses-and-Cake-John-Powell.mp3
Thu-Cuoi-Yanbi-ft.-Mr-T.mp3
Wait-For-You-X4-Band.mp3
```
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ls|grep .mp3 >list.txt; while read line; do newname=`echo $line|sed 's/\ /-/g'|sort`; newname=`echo $newname|tr -s '-' `; echo $newname; echo $newname>> tracklist.txt;mv "$line" "$newname"; done <list.txt; rm list.txt

hieuht · 2012-02-16 08:33:14 12
Get your outgoing IP address

Gets the IP and sticks it into the middle-mouse-click buffer
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echo -n $(curl -Ss http://icanhazip.com) | xclip

red_five · 2012-02-17 16:58:40 3
List prime numbers from 2 to 100

This is actually quite slow~ P.S. change `seq 2 100` to `seq 2 1000` and try Show Sample Output
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2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97
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for num in `seq 2 100`;do if [ `factor $num|awk '{print $2}'` == $num ];then echo -n "$num ";fi done;echo

alvinhochun · 2012-02-18 08:11:19 3
Basic Shell function die_msg

Using a standard way to handle error message and return code. Show Sample Output
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```
cd /path/to/somewhere || die_msg Cannot change CWD to somewhere
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die_msg() { echo $@ >&2; exit -1; }

admon · 2012-02-24 04:06:04 3
Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour) - alternate

useful to count events in logs @see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment Show Sample Output
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2012-02-24 08 28
2012-02-24 09 122
2012-02-24 10 110
2012-02-24 11 95
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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs -l1 -iFF echo 'echo FF $(cat z.log | grep -e "^FF" | grep -e Timeout | wc -l )' | bash

hute37 · 2012-02-28 17:25:14 3
for all who don't have the watch command

allows command to use switches
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watch() { if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "usage: watch interval command" return fi sec=$1 shift while test :; do clear; date=$(date); echo -e "Every "$sec"s: $@ \t\t\t\t $date"; echo $@; sleep $sec; done }

kneufeld · 2012-02-29 17:10:19 3
Have your sound card call out elapsed time.

works the same, but uses festival instead of espeak
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for ((x=0;;x+=5)); do sleep 5; echo $x | festival --tts & done

mrklaw · 2012-03-06 21:17:51 4
Have your sound card call out elapsed time.

Says time every 5 seconds in hours, minutes and seconds using festival.
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for ((x=0;;x+=5)); do sleep 5; hours=$(($x/3600)); minutes=$(($x%3600/60)); seconds=$(($x%60)); echo "$hours hours $minutes minutes $seconds seconds have elapsed" | festival --tts & done

mrklaw · 2012-03-06 22:58:43 3
Poor man's watch: Repeat a command every N seconds

Usage: watch ls -l Basic but usable replacement for the "watch" command for those systems which don't have it (e.g. the Solaris I'm trapped on). Type Ctrl+V to escape the following Ctrl+L which clears the screen. It will be displayed as "^L".
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watch() { while true; do echo "<Ctrl+V><Ctrl+L>Every 2.0s: $@"; date; eval "$@"; sleep 2; done }

hfs · 2012-03-07 09:30:15 10
Print all words in a file sorted by length

optionally you can add |cut -d' ' -f2|uniq to the end of the command line.
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for a in $(cat sample.txt); do echo "$(wc -m<<<$a) $a";done|sort -n

knoppix5 · 2012-03-15 08:51:42 7
Print all words in a file sorted by length
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for a in $(cat sample.txt); do echo "${#a} $a";done|sort -n

livibetter · 2012-03-15 09:21:29 3
Write over previous line in bash
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seq 1 1000000 | while read i; do echo -en "\r$i"; done

evandrix · 2012-03-15 14:13:04 8
Print all words in a file sorted by length

Take a file and ,."()?!;: give a list of all the words in order of increasing length. First of all use tr to map all alphabetic characters to lower case and also strip out any puntuation. A-Z become a-z ,."()?!;: all become \n (newline) I've ignored - (hyphen) and ' (apostrophe) because they occur in words. Next use bash to print the length ${#w} and the word Finally sort the list numerically (sort -n) and remove any duplicates (sort -u). Note: sort -nu performs strangely on this list. It outputs one word per length. Show Sample Output
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```
...
9 suggested
9 unsightly
10 advantages
10 categorise
10 considered
10 everything
12 experimental
12 grandparents
13 insignificant
13 self-assembly
14 apologetically
```
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for w in $(tr 'A-Z ,."()?!;:' 'a-z\n' < sample.txt); do echo ${#w} $w; done | sort -u | sort -n

flatcap · 2012-03-15 14:14:11 5
List users in a group

I can't find the lid command on my system, there is also another complied program: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/lsgrp/
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lsgrp() { read GID USERS <<< "$(grep "^$1:" /etc/group | cut -d: -f3,4 | tr ':,' ' ')" ; echo -e "${USERS// /\n}" | egrep -v "^($1)?$" ; egrep :[0-9]+:$GID: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 ; }

livibetter · 2012-03-16 09:57:33 3
Short log format of Subversion history

Emulate (more or less) Git equivalent of git log --format='tformat:%h %an (%cr) %s' Show Sample Output
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r1238354 bodewig (2012-01-31 11:01) help dealing with the case where BSF is there but JavaScript support is not - the current build failure in Gump
r1237442 bodewig (2012-01-29 20:58) another readablilty tweak
r1237438 bodewig (2012-01-29 20:49) extract handling of -source 1.1 and 1.2
```
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svnll(){svn log "$@"|( read; while true; do read h||break; read; m=""; while read l; do echo "$l" | grep -q '^[-]\+$'&&break; [ -z "$m" ] && m=$l; done; echo "$h % $m" | sed 's#$.*$ | $.*$ | $[-0-9 :]\{16\}$.* % $.*$#\1 \2 (\3) \4#'; done)}

vhotspur · 2012-03-25 20:39:05 3
hostgrep: set ip and hostname from /etc/hosts (non-DNS)

usage: dng BRE [selection] default selection is the last match DNS is ok, but although domainnames may be easier to remember than IP numbers, it still requires typing them out. This can be error-prone. Even more so than typing IPv4 numbers, depending on the domainname, its length and complexity.
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dng(){ local a;a=$(sed '/'"$1"'/!d' /etc/hosts |sed '=;'"${2-1,$}"'!d'|sed '/ /!d');echo $a|tr '\040' '\n'|nl -bp'[0-9]$'|less -E;export dn=$(echo $a|sed 's,.* ,,');export ip=$(echo $a|sed 's, .*,,');echo \$dn=$dn;echo \$ip=$ip;}

argv · 2012-04-01 23:57:09 3
Print all words in a file sorted by length
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for a in $(< FILENAME); do echo "$(bc <<< $(wc -m<<<$a)-1) $a";done|sort -n

codecaine · 2012-04-02 02:15:52 3
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Simpler and without all of the coloring gimmicks. This just returns a list of branches with the most recent first. This should be useful for cleaning your remotes. Show Sample Output
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master
testing
this-shit-works
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for k in $(git branch | sed /\*/d); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ct" $k) $k"; done | sort -r | awk '{print $2}'

dahuie · 2012-04-07 11:19:00 6
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