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Terminal - Commands using printf - 166 results
set-proxy () { P=webproxy:1234; DU="fred"; read -p "username[$DU]:" USER; printf "%b"; UN=${USER:-$DU}; read -s -p "password:" PASS; printf "%b" "\n"; export http_proxy="http://${UN}:${PASS}@$P/"; export ftp_proxy="http://${UN}:${PASS}@$P/"; }
2010-02-04 13:12:59
User: shadycraig
Functions: export printf read set
Tags: wget password proxy http_proxy
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Configuring proxy client on terminal without leaving password on screen or in bash_history

Prompts the user for username and password, that are then exported to http_proxy for use by wget, yum etc

Default user, webproxy and port are used.

Using this script prevent the cleartext user and pass being in your bash_history and on-screen

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printf "%d\n" \0x64
2010-01-09 02:50:50
User: 4Aiur
Functions: printf
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hexadecimal2decimal
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printf "%50s\n"|tr ' ' -
2010-01-07 08:49:46
User: rodolfoap
Functions: printf tr
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Print a row of 50 hyphens

Better -and faster- using bash printf.

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printf "\e[8;70;180;t"
2010-01-07 05:58:16
User: jearsh
Functions: printf
Tags: printf resize window
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Resize a Terminal Window

Replace 70 with the desired height.

Replace 180 with the desired width.

I put it in my bashrc, because by default my terminal is too small.

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p(){ printf "\033[%d;%dH\033[4%dm \033[m" $((RANDOM%LINES+1)) $((RANDOM%COLUMNS+1)) $((RANDOM%8)); }; clear;while :;do p; sleep .001;done
2009-12-17 15:25:28
User: cfajohnson
Functions: printf sleep
Tags: color
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Random colours at random locations
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COL=$(( $(tput cols) / 2 )); clear; tput setaf 2; while :; do tput cup $((RANDOM%COL)) $((RANDOM%COL)); printf "%$((RANDOM%COL))s" $((RANDOM%2)); done
2009-12-15 02:48:28
User: sputnick
Functions: printf tput
Tags: color
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Another Matrix Style Implementation
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printf "%s\n" !(pattern) ## ksh, or bash with shopt -s extglob
2009-11-26 14:09:56
User: cfajohnson
Functions: bash printf
Tags: ls grep
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List files that DO NOT match a pattern

There's no need for ls or grep; printf is builtin to most modern shells

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printf $(echo -n $1 | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g;s/\(%\)\([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]\)/\\x\2/g')
2009-11-25 04:27:39
User: infinull
Functions: echo printf sed
Tags: bash sed xa urldecod
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urldecoding

My version uses printf and command substitution ($()) instead of echo -e and xargs, this is a few less chars, but not real substantive difference.

Also supports lowercase hex letters and a backslash (\) will make it through unescaped

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printf "%s\n" .*
2009-11-23 18:07:18
User: cfajohnson
Functions: printf
Tags: dotfiles
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Find all dot files and directories

In most modern shells, printf is a builtin command.

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printf "%s\n" ${PATH//:/\/* }
2009-11-20 22:55:59
User: cfajohnson
Functions: printf
Tags: list PATH
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List all available commands (bash, ksh93)
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printf "%s\n" .*
2009-11-20 21:41:02
User: cfajohnson
Functions: printf
Tags: egrep ls dotfiles
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Find all dot files and directories
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cat *.c | { printf "se te du\nplot '-' t '' w dots\n"; tr '[[:upper:]]' '[[:lower:]]' | tr -s [[:punct:][:space:]] '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 100 | awk '{print $1}END{print "e"}'; } | gnuplot
2009-11-20 14:53:26
User: taliver
Functions: awk cat head printf sort tr uniq
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Plot frequency distribution of words from files on a terminal.

Uses the dumb terminal option in gnuplot to plot a graph of frequencies. In this case, we are looking at a frequency analysis of words in all of the .c files.

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export I=$(date +%s); watch -t -n 1 'T=$(date +%s);E=$(($T-$I));hours=$((E / 3600)) ; seconds=$((E % 3600)) ; minutes=$((seconds / 60)) ; seconds=$((seconds % 60)) ; echo $(printf "%02d:%02d:%02d" $hours $minutes $seconds) | toilet -f shadow'
2009-10-23 07:56:30
User: m33600
Functions: date echo export printf watch
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StopWatch, toilet version, amazing format inside terminal

already described on the other two versions, this one uses ascii characters on game style to display elapsed time.

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export I=$(date +%s); watch -t -n 1 'T=$(date +%s);E=$(($T-$I));hours=$((E / 3600)) ; seconds=$((E % 3600)) ; minutes=$((seconds / 60)) ; seconds=$((seconds % 60)) ; echo $(printf "%02d:%02d:%02d" $hours $minutes $seconds) | osd_cat -o 20 -d 1 -p bottom'
2009-10-23 07:47:11
User: m33600
Functions: date echo export printf watch
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StopWatch, OnScreen version, blinking shily on all desktops

Variation of the theme, this one blinks in low profile on top level of X, ie, it is visible, indeed small.

Try changing fonts and sizes of osd_cat

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export I=$(date +%s); watch -t -n 1 'T=$(date +%s);E=$(($T-$I));hours=$((E / 3600)) ; seconds=$((E % 3600)) ; minutes=$((seconds / 60)) ; seconds=$((seconds % 60)) ; echo $(printf "%02d:%02d:%02d" $hours $minutes $seconds)'
2009-10-23 07:31:44
User: m33600
Functions: date echo export printf watch
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StopWatch, simple text, hh:mm:ss using Unix Time

Works on real time clock, unix time based, decrementing the actual time from initial time saved in an environment variable exported to child process inside watch

Shows elapsed time from start of script in hh:mm:ss format

Non afected by system slow down due to the use of date.

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ord() { printf "%d\n" "'$1"; }
2009-10-17 22:02:52
User: zude
Functions: printf
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Get decimal ascii code from character

printf treats first char after single ' as numeric equivalent

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printf "%d\n" "'A" "'B"
2009-10-17 09:50:44
User: twfcc
Functions: printf
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get the ascii number with bash builtin printf
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chr() { printf \\$(printf %o $1); }
2009-10-16 19:10:44
User: zude
Functions: printf
Tags: ascii decimal convert
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Function to output an ASCII character given its decimal equivalent
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chr () { printf \\$(($1/64*100+$1%64/8*10+$1%8)); }
2009-10-15 07:01:54
User: dennisw
Functions: printf
Tags: ascii decimal convert
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Function to output an ASCII character given its decimal equivalent

I've corrected the function. My octal conversion formula was completely wrong. Thanks to pgas at http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/071 for setting me straight. The new function is from pgas and is very fast.

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(printf "PERMISSIONS LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM PROG-NAME\n" \ ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
2009-10-08 11:53:38
User: opexxx
Functions: column ls printf sed
Tags: sed ls column printf
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Using column to format a directory listing

Using column to format a directory listing

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cat file.txt | while read line; do printf "%7.2f -> %7.2f\n" $line; done
2009-10-06 07:09:23
User: opexxx
Functions: cat printf read
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Bashbuiltin printf
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find -type f -name "*.avi" -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | perl -nle '/ID_LENGTH=([0-9\.]+)/ && ($t +=$1) && printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",$t/3600,$t/60%60,$t%60' | tail -n 1
2009-09-24 15:50:39
User: syssyphus
Functions: find perl printf tail xargs
Tags: video audio mplayer perl find
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Get the total length of all video / audio in the current dir (and below) in H:m:s

change the *.avi to whatever you want to match, you can remove it altogether if you want to check all files.

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printf "%02u " {3..20}; echo
2009-09-18 18:48:41
User: Escher
Functions: printf
Tags: bash strings
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for loop with leading zero in bash 3

emulates bash4's "echo {03..20}"

Uses bash3 builtin function printf

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yes "$(seq 1 255)" | while read i; do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m\n"; sleep .01; done
2009-09-05 04:01:23
User: unixmonkey4581
Functions: printf read sleep yes
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cycle through a 256 colour palette

Rainbow, instead of greys

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printf '%*s\n' 20 | tr ' ' '#'
2009-08-15 22:38:01
User: twfcc
Functions: printf tr
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Emulate perl 'print "#" x 20, "\n"'
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