Parses your exported bookmarks to generate a clean list of http lines and passes it on to clive to try to download the video file from various sites.

This function is used to sort selected lines of a text file to the end of that file. Especially useful in cases where human intervention is necessary to sort out parts of a file. Let's say that you have a text file which contains the words rough slimy red fluff dough For whatever reason, you want to sort all words rhyming with 'tough' to the bottom of the file, and all words denoting colors to the top, while keeping the order of the rest of the file intact. '$EDITOR' will open, showing all of the lines in the given file, numbered with '0' padding. Adding a '~' to the beginning of the line will cause the line to sort to the end of the file, adding '!' will cause it to sort to the beginning. Show Sample Output

Spelling Suggestion using Yahoo! API Show Sample Output

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Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server.

Mac OS X needs some clean up. First command works in Linux, Solaris just needs the "0000000"'s removed Show Sample Output

If you have lots of subversion working copies in one directory and want to see in which repositories they are stored, this will do the trick. Can be convenient if you need to move to a new subversion server. Show Sample Output

This prints "Charging" or "Discharging". Obviously, this will indicate the status of the AC adapter. The awk part could be from 1-6. I removed the comma because it is useless when only looking at one element of the output array. See acpi(1) for more info.

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only output the ip addres. I put double pipe with sed because not parse with operator OR (|) in redex. Show Sample Output

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I wrote this script to speed up Nginx configs. This (long) one liner can be run via BASH. You will see that we set a variable in bash called 'foo' and the streamline editor (sed) finds 'bar' in 'foo.conf' next it writes that output to a temp file (foo.temp) and removes the first 5 lines (that aren't needed in this case) & lastly it moves (overwrites) foo.temp to foo.conf Show Sample Output

Same as another one I saw, just with a cleaner sed command Edit: updated the sed command to use the [[:xdigit:]] character class - more portable between locales Note that it will have a newline inserted after every 32 characters of input, due to the output of xxd Show Sample Output

first off, if you just want a random UUID, here's the actual command to use: uuidgen Your chances of finding a duplicate after running this nonstop for a year are about the same as being hit by a meteorite before finishing this sentence The reason for the command I have is that it's more provably unique than the one that uuidgen creates. uuidgen creates a random one by default, or an unencrypted one based on time and network address if you give it the -t option. Mine uses the mac address of the ethernet interface, the process id of the caller, and the system time down to nanosecond resolution, which is provably unique over all computers past, present, and future, subject to collisions in the cryptographic hash used, and the uniqueness of your mac address. Warning: feel free to experiment, but be warned that the stdin of the hash is binary data at that point, which may mess up your terminal if you don't pipe it into something. If it does mess up though, just type reset Show Sample Output

only for non-regexp-split - else use preg_split instead.

Simple way of having random mrxvt backgrounds. Add this to your bashrc and change the path names for the pictures.

The find command isn't the important bit, here: it's just what feeds the rest of the pipe (this one looks for all PDFs less than 7 days old, in an archive directory, whose structure is defined by a wildcard pattern: modify this find, to suit your real needs). I consider the next bit the useful part. xargs stats out the byte-size of each file, and this is passed to awk, which adds them all together, and prints the grand total. I use printf, in order to override awk's tendency to swtich to exponential output above a certain threshold, and, specifically "%0.0f\n", because it was all I can find to force things back to digital on Redhat systems. This is then passed to an optional sed, which formats them in a US/UK number format, to make large numbers easier to read. Change the comma in the sed, for your preferred separator character (e.g. sed -r ':L;s=\b([0-9]+)([0-9]{3})\b=\1 \2=g;t L' for most European countries). (This sed is credited to user name 'archtoad6', on the Linuxquestions forum.) This is useful for monitoring changes in the storage use within large and growing archives of files, and appears to execute much more quickly than some options I have seen (use of a 'for SIZE in find-command -exec du' style approach, instead, for instance). I just ran it on a not particularly spectacular server, where a directory tree with over three thousand subdirectories, containing around 4000 files, of about 4 Gigs, total, responded in under a second. Show Sample Output

Sometimes those files have more than just spaces and tabs around them. Plus, this is just a little shorter.

This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic. To get a random xkcd comic use the following: xkcdrandom() { wget -qO- http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random | sed -n 's#^<img src="\(http://imgs.[^"]\+\)"\s\+title="\(.\+\?\)"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash; } These are just a bit shorter than the ones eigthmillion wrote, however his version didn't work as expected on my laptop for some reason (I got the title-tag first), so these build a command which is executed by bash.