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Force an fsck on reboot. Useful on a system where / has mounted read-only because of file system issues.
I put this in a shell script called "svndiff", as it provides a handy decorated "svn diff" output that is colored (which you can't see here) and paged. The -r is required so less doesn't mangle the color codes.
An easy function to get a process tree listing (very detailed) for all the processes of any gived user.
This function is also in my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds.
sec2dhms() {
declare -i SS="$1"
D=$(( SS / 86400 ))
H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 ))
M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 ))
S=$(( SS % 60 ))
[ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:"
[ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H"
printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S"
}
Uses ImageMagick and potrace to vectorize the input image, with parameters optimized for xkcd-like pictures.
Simple use of find and grep to recursively search a directory for files that contain a certain term.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-mpeg.html
MEncoder can create MPEG (MPEG-PS) format output files. Usually, when you are using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video, it is because you are encoding for a constrained format such as SVCD, VCD, or DVD.
To change MEncoder's output file format, use the -of mpeg option.
Creating an MPEG-1 file suitable to be played on systems with minimal multimedia support, such as default Windows installs:
$ mencoder input.avi -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg1:tsaf:muxrate=2000 \
-o output.mpg -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ovc lavc \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video:vbitrate=1152:keyint=15:mbd=2:aspect=4/3
Output the current time in Swatch “Internet Time”, aka .beats. There are 1000 .beats in a day, and @0 is at 00:00 Central European Standard Time. This was briefly a thing in the late 1990s. More details:
https://2020.swatch.com/en_ca/internet-time/
The alias is rather quote heavy to protect the subshell, so the bare command is:
$ echo '@'$(TZ=GMT-1 date +'(%-S + %-M * 60 + %-H * 3600) / 86.4'|bc)