This will show a console clock with Figlet.

This is with the Star Wars font.

Change the -f option to anything else.

Notice: You need Figlet installed for this to work.

To install Figlet on Ubuntu, type in:

To install Figlet on Debian, type in:

This command will automatically clear the old clock time, and show the new clock time.

It will also slightly format it.

Does the same but without a pipe and a new shell.

sends notification msg within repeated intervals of time to notify-send ;)

Just for fun.

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:

Mutes the speakers after an hour, in case you fall asleep watching a video...

I used curl instead of lynx.

No need for a colon, and one less semicolon too. Also untested.

There is no need for variables. I also added sleep to reduce cpu usage, however I didn't test it.

Of course, a fifo is required for piloting the fade out of another song, but with a few bash function, we can mix music in bash like :

crossfadeIn > mplayerfifo1 & crossfadeOut > mplayerfifo2

loop 0 10 > mplayer fifo1

etc etc

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

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar.

Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Adjust "sleep X" to your needs.

*NOTE: First sleep is required because bash doesn't have a "post-test" syntax (do XXX while).

Is a simple script for video streaming a movie

restart a buggy script when it dies. works great for "git svn fetch", which leaks memory like a sieve and eventually dies...making you restart it.

use this comand to see which switch port your network interface is using.

but remind, there is no network traffic for 10 minutes or how long you run the comand.

if you start the comand via ssh, port will come up again after the "for loop" has endet

This is useful if you'd like to see the output of a script while you edit it. Each time you save the file the command is executed. I thought for sure something like this already exists - and it probably does. I'm on an older system and tend to be missing some useful things.

Examples:

Edit yourscript in a separate window and see new results each time you save.

Keep editing krufty.html until the xmllint window is empty.

Note: Mac/bsd users should use stat -f%m. If you don't have stat, you can use perl -e '$f=shift; @s=stat($f); print "$s[9]\n";' $1

Cycles continuously through a string printing each character with a random delay less than 1 second. First parameter is min, 2nd is max. Example: 1 3 means sleep random .1 to .3. Experiment with different values. The 3rd parameter is the string. The sleep will help with battery life/power consumption.

Fans of "The Shining" might get a kick out of this:

This will turn it in an infinite loop and also shows random words from a file, so it won't be the same each time and also not just a number.

Create a progress dialog with custom title and text using zenity.

using seq inside a subshell instead of a bash sequence to create increments.