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terminal based annoy-a-tron

credit goes to icanhaslinux.com http://icanhaslinux.com/2007/09/17/annoy-your-coworkers-linux-style/
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while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/1000)) && beep -f 2000 -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done

otisspud · 2011-06-29 02:38:33 3
Notify on Battery power

Works on Laptops, Desktop having communication b/w UPS & CPU Show Sample Output
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[On top right corner]

Running on BATTERY
```
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NotifyOnBATTERY () { while :; do on_ac_power||notify-send "Running on BATTERY"; sleep 1m; done }

totti · 2011-08-26 11:54:16 7
Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

No need to install additional packages eg: say hello For multiword say how+are+you
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say() { wget -q -U Mozilla -O output.mp3 "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$1"; gnome-terminal -x bash -c "totem output.mp3"; sleep 4; totem --quit;}

totti · 2011-09-07 19:48:53 3
60 second on screen timer for bash scripts
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i=60;while [ $i -gt 0 ];do if [ $i -gt 9 ];then printf "\b\b$i";else printf "\b\b $i";fi;sleep 1;i=`expr $i - 1`;done

barnesmjsa · 2011-09-08 18:14:48 3

view all console fonts

Testing in a TTY terminal , not emulator . Show Sample Output

#!/bin/bash cd /usr/share/consolefonts/; for i in * ; do setfont; echo "testing >> $i << font" ; setfont $i ; showconsolefont ; sleep 5 ; clear ; done

ambagasdowa · 2011-10-25 01:14:48 7

Render man page in *temporary* PDF (works in Gnome)

Yeah yeah, another "render man page in pdf", but this time it creates a temporary PDF that stays resident in memory for viewing, but is eliminated on the filesystem. Replace evince with your PDF viewer of choice.
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man -t man | ps2pdf - temp.pdf; evince temp.pdf &> /dev/null &; sleep 3; rm temp.pdf

threv · 2011-12-08 17:40:47 9
check a list of domains registered on godaddy

Found on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55520.0
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for i in `wget -O url|grep '<a rel="nofollow"'|grep http|sed 's|.*<a rel="nofollow" class="[^"]\+" href="[^"]*https\?://$[^/]\+$[^"]*">[^<]\+</a>.*|\1|'`;do if test -n "$(whois $i|grep -i godaddy)";then echo $i uses GoDaddy;fi;sleep 20;done

coinbitsdotcom · 2011-12-24 19:12:18 5
Generate random sensible passwords, and copy them to the clipboard

Use the excellent sensiblepasswords.com to a generate random (yet easy-to-remember) password every second, and copy it to the clipboard. Useful for generating a list of passwords and pasting them into a spreadsheet. This script uses "madebynathan"'s "cb" function (http://madebynathan.com/2011/10/04/a-nicer-way-to-use-xclip/); you could also replace "cb" with xclip -selection c Remove "while true; do" and "; done" to generate and copy only 1 password. Show Sample Output
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Copied to clipboard: speedily702nixed
Copied to clipboard: rarities648toasting
Copied to clipboard: flunkies754inflect
Copied to clipboard: bogey202calves
^C
```
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while true; do curl -s http://sensiblepassword.com/?harder=1 | tail -n 15 | head -n 1 | sed 's;<br/>;;' | cut -c 5- | cb; sleep 1; done

supervacuo · 2012-01-30 20:52:14 44
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
Makes mplayer show file played through libnotify, 140 characters

Will finish automagically when mplayer quits. Can be run from any directory. It seems to finish by it self rarely, probably because of some timing issue? There's probably a way around that which I can't think of right now Show Sample Output
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(in OSD): /home/aix/Music/Chrispin Glover - Clowny Clown Clown.flac
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r="readlink /proc/`pgrep -o mplayer`/fd/3";while [ -e "`$r`" ];do if [ "$f" = "`$r`" ];then sleep 1;else f="`$r`";notify-send " $f";fi;done

aix · 2012-02-26 06:49:16 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
Continously show httpd's error log
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while [ 1 ]; do tail /var/log/httpd/error_log; sleep 2; clear; done

wildtype · 2012-03-09 17:10:40 3
BW gradient
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yes "$(seq 232 255;seq 254 -1 233)" | while read i; do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m\n"; sleep .01; done

hogofogo · 2012-04-03 06:41:43 4
Matrix Style

A tweak using Patola's code as a base, this full-width green matrix display has all the frills (and all the printable characters). You don't need the surrounding parens if you don't care about losing globbing capabilities. Z-shell (/bin/zsh) needs neither the parens nor the `set -o noglob` Screen shot (animated): http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg32/scaled.php?server=32&filename=matrixh.gif&res=landing If it's too slow, try lowering the `sleep 0.05` or even replacing it with `true` (which is faster than `sleep 0`). I squashed it as narrow as I could to conserve space, though somebody could probably squeeze a char or two out. Enjoy!
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(set -o noglob;while sleep 0.05;do for r in `grep -ao '[[:print:]]' /dev/urandom|head -$((COLUMNS/3))`;do [ $((RANDOM%6)) -le 1 ] && r=\ ;echo -ne "\e[$((RANDOM%7/-6+2));32m $r ";done;echo;done)

adamhotep · 2012-04-13 02:09:10 3
Notify by text-message when command completes

Replace "4158575309@txt.att.net" with your carrier's SMS gateway identifier. The one in the sample is for AT&T. More here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways. Helpful for getting notifications about long running commands. ";" executes regardless of exit status of last command. && will only notify you if the command succeeds.
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sleep 15 ; `echo "done" | mail -s "done" 4158575309@txt.att.net`

vajrapani666 · 2012-04-16 01:28:16 3
Capture screen with timer
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sleep 3;import -window root output.png

chars19 · 2012-07-24 15:33:06 3
Alarmclock function makes usage of a BEL (\a) character.

usage: alarmclock TIME TIME is a sleep(1) parameter which tells function how long to wait until raise the alarm.
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alarmclock() { [ $1 ] || echo Parameter TIME is missing. 1>&2 && return 1 ; ( sleep $1 ; for x in 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ; do for y in `seq 0 $[ 10 - $x ] ` ; do printf "\a"; sleep 0.$x ; done ; done ) & }

lkj · 2012-08-16 15:35:15 3
repeat a command every x seconds

For use when you can't use "watch" (user-defined functions, aliases). This isn't mine - its an alternate posted in the comments by flatcap, and is the shortest and easiest to remember.
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while sleep 1; do foo; done

lowbatteries · 2012-09-14 20:21:04 4
Display CPU usage in percentage

Using the output of 'ps' to determine CPU usage is misleading, as the CPU column in 'ps' shows CPU usage per process over the entire lifetime of the process. In order to get *current* CPU usage (without scraping a top screen) you need to pull some numbers from /proc/stat. Here, we take two readings, once second apart, determine how much IDLE time was spent across all CPUs, divide by the number of CPUs, and then subtract from 100 to get non-idle time. Show Sample Output
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1.84% CPU Usage
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NUMCPUS=`grep ^proc /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l`; FIRST=`cat /proc/stat | awk '/^cpu / {print $5}'`; sleep 1; SECOND=`cat /proc/stat | awk '/^cpu / {print $5}'`; USED=`echo 2 k 100 $SECOND $FIRST - $NUMCPUS / - p | dc`; echo ${USED}% CPU Usage

toxick · 2012-10-02 03:57:51 6
avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Execute commands serially on a list of hosts. Each ssh connection is made in the background so that if, after five seconds, it hasn't closed, it will be killed and the script will go on to the next system. Maybe there's an easier way to set a timeout in the ssh options...
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for host in $MYHOSTS; do ping -q -c3 $H 2>&1 1>/dev/null && ssh -o 'AllowedAuthe ntications publickey' $host 'command1; command2' & for count in 1 2 3 4 5; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done

a8ksh4 · 2012-11-13 23:12:27 5
avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Cleaned up and silent with &>/dev/null at the end. Show Sample Output
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Nothing.
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for host in $HOSTNAMES; do ping -q -c3 $host && ssh $host 'command' & for count in {1..15}; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done &>/dev/null

somaddict · 2012-11-16 02:31:27 4
Stream video to screen with a delay (cyberart)
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mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=320:height=240:device=/dev/video1 -nosound -ovc lavc -really-quiet -quiet -o - | (sleep 10m; cat) | mplayer - -cache 512

timrich · 2012-11-25 18:52:37 4
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Take a screenshot of a login screen

when using Gnome or KDE, you will have a hard time getting a screenshot of something like a login screen, or any other screen that occurs before the desktop environment is up and monitoring the printscreen key. (this probably applies for other DEs as well, but I haven't used them) What this command is meant to do is take a screenshot of an X window using a command you can run from your virtual terminals (actual text terminals, not just an emulator) To do this: Press CTRL+ALT+F1 to go to a virtual (text) terminal once your login window comes up Login to the virtual terminal and enter the command (you'll have to type it in) You should now have a file called screenshot.png in your home directory with your screenshot in it. For those of you who are new to the virtual terminal thing, you can use CTRL+ALT+F7 to get back to your regular GUI From http://www.gnome.org

Download free e-books

Mask the user agent as firefox, recursively download 2 levels deep from a span host with a maximum of 1 redirection, use random wait time and dump all pdf files to myBooksFolder without creating any other directories. Host will have no way of knowing that this is a grabber script.

Upgrade all perl modules via CPAN

Signals list by NUMBER and NAME

Find Duplicate Files (based on MD5 hash) -- For Mac OS X

This works on Mac OS X using the `md5` command instead of `md5sum`, which works similarly, but has a different output format. Note that this only prints the name of the duplicates, not the original file. This is handy because you can add `| xargs rm` to the end of the command to delete all the duplicates while leaving the original.

Securely destroy data on given device

Intentional hash in the beginning. May run a looong time. Wipes your data for real. Was meant to be /dev/urandom - I mistyped it. :-)

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Log colorizer for OSX (ccze alternative)

Download colorizer by @raszi @ http://github.com/raszi/colorize

Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed

Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed Credit to the original folks who I've copied this command from. The diff here is: Theirs: [m|K] Theirs is supposed to remove \E[NUMBERS;NUMBERS[m OR K] This statement is incorrect in 2 ways. 1. The letters m and K are two of more than 20+ possible letters that can end these sequences. 2. Inside []'s , OR is already assumed, so they are also looking for sequences ending with | which is not correct. This : [a-zA-Z] This resolves the "OR" issue noted above, and takes care of all sequences, as they all end with a lower or upper cased letter. This ensures 100% of any escape code 'mess' is removed.

Search for a string inside all files in the current directory

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