Commands using read

urldecode files in current directrory

tired of opening tabs and fill in search forms by hand? just pipe the search terms you need into this surfraw loop. you can use any browser you have installed, but a graphical browser with a tabbed interface will come in handy. surfraw can be found here:

http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org

Watch the temperatures of your CPU cores in real time at the command line. Press CONTROL+C to end.

GORY DETAILS: Your computer needs to support sensors (many laptops, for example, do not). You'll need to install the lm-sensors package if it isn't already installed. And it helps to run the `sensors-detect` command to set up your sensor kernel modules first. At the very end of the sensors-detect interactive shell prompt, answer YES to add the new lines to the list of kernel modules loaded at boot.

finds all epub files in the current directory and all child directories and converts them to .mobi format.

all of the ebook-convert -options are optional; the only parameters you are required to pass are the incoming file and the outgoing file, with the extension.

Has been tested on Ubuntu 10.10

Recursively find php files and replace tab characters with spaces.

Options:

"\*.php" -- replace this with the files you wish to find

"expand" -- replace tabs with spaces (use "unexpand" to replace spaces with tabs)

"-t4" -- tabs represent 4 spaces

Note: The IFS="" in the middle is to prevent 'read' from eating leading/trailing whitespace in filenames.

Warn: use convmv or detox if you can: they are the right tools.

But if you want to do it manually, you can use this command to find the problematic files and transliterate their accented characters to their ascii equivalent.

(Useful when doing cd backup: growisofs may fail on files which come from the old iso8859-* days.)

POSIX requires this "string truncating" functionality.

might as well use it, at least for very small tasks where invoking sed and using RE is overkill.

This shows a list of channels from seeon.tv website to watch shows and movies

Show disk space info, grepping out the uninteresting ones beginning with ^none while we're at it.

The main point of this submission is the way it maintains the header row with the command grouping, by removing it from the pipeline before it gets fed into the sort command. (I'm surprised sort doesn't have an option to skip a header row, actually..)

It took me a while to work out how to do this, I thought of it as I was drifting off to sleep last night!

a simple interactive tool to convert Simplified Chinese (typed by pinyin) to Traditional Chinese

This is a simple bash function and a key binding that uses commandlinefu's simple and easy search API. It prompts for a search term, then it uses curl to search commandline fu, and highlights the search results with less.

Take a folder full of files and split it into smaller folders containing a maximum number of files. In this case, 100 files per directory.

find creates the list of files

xargs breaks up the list into groups of 100

for each group, create a directory and copy in the files

Note: This command won't work if there is whitespace in the filenames (but then again, neither do the alternative commands :-)

Center the output text in max line length of buffered output pipe;

Change YOUR TEXT HERE to the text you want.

On figlet -f banner, you can change it to any figlet font you have installed.

One variant for Star Wars fans could be this:

NOTICE: You need to install figlet.

On Ubuntu, this command is:

On Debian, this command is:

Smaller Code

Better Runtime

just an alternative to #7818

i use this after ripping internet radio streams to number the files as they originally played (even though streamripper can do this with -q).

to number other types of files, or all files, just change the *mp3. to rename directories only you could use

... ls -lt | grep ^d | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f2- | while read ...

can also be invoked as 'exipick -zi | exim -dM' if you do not need/want the delay between flushes.