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Terminal - Commands using sleep - 234 results

for i in {1..40};do echo -n $i. $(date +%H:%M:%S):\ ; (time curl 'http://ya.ru/' &> /dev/null) 2>&1|grep real;sleep 1;done

2011-11-11 10:40:38

User: AntonyC

Functions: date echo grep sleep time

Tags: curl

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measure answer time of a web service

This uses curl to find out the access times of a web service

(echo -e '\xfe'; sleep 1) |telnet -L $HOSTIP 25565 2>/dev/null |awk -F'\xa7' '$2 {print "users: "$2"/"$3;}'

2011-11-07 02:28:03

User: Mozai

Functions: awk echo sleep telnet

Tags: awk telnet minecraft

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Get number of users on a minecraft server

I'm flat-out surprised that minecraft directory services require servers install multiple modifications to their server code, when the directories could fetch this information on their own.

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

2011-10-25 01:14:48

User: ambagasdowa

Functions: cd clear echo sleep

Tags: conlsolefonts

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view all console fonts

Testing in a TTY terminal , not emulator .

while true ; do echo -n "`date`";curl localhost:3000/site/sha;echo -e;sleep 1; done

2011-10-14 21:00:41

User: donnoman

Functions: echo sleep true

Tags: watch repeat timeline

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Repeat a command until stopped

In this case it runs the command 'curl localhost:3000/site/sha' waiting the amount of time in sleep, ie: 1 second between runs, appending each run to the console.

This works well for any command where the output is less than your line width

This is unlike watch, because watch always clears the display.

while true ; do sleep 1 ; clear ; (netstat -tn | grep -P ':36089\s+\d') ; done

2011-09-28 11:39:43

User: hute37

Functions: clear grep netstat sleep true

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Monitoring a port connections

shell loop to scan netstat output avoiding loolback aliases (local/remote swap for local connections)

while true; do sleep 4 ; xdotool click 1 ; done

2011-09-23 09:23:02

User: rusino

Functions: sleep

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Automation click every 4 second on a macro slot bar to world of warcraft for prospecting item

enable auto loot and create macro, put mouse over slot on the bar

/cast Prospecting

/use Elementium Ore

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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

2011-09-08 18:14:48

User: barnesmjsa

Functions: printf sleep

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60 second on screen timer for bash scripts

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while true; do xset dpms force off; sleep 0.3; xset dpms force on; xset s reset; sleep 0.3; done

2011-09-07 21:55:41

User: Escher

Functions: sleep

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Emergency Alien Invasion Warning

When aliens invade Earth, be first to warn your neighbours by placing your computer screen at a window and executing this potentially Earth-saving command.

Ctrl C when aliens are defeated.

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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;}

2011-09-07 19:48:53

User: totti

Functions: bash sleep wget

Tags: google say text to speech

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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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while sleep 30; do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-15));echo -n " New Emails: $(curl -u username:password --silent https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom | grep 'fullcount' | grep -o '[0-9]\+')";tput rc; done &

2011-09-07 08:40:28

User: saze

Functions: echo sleep tput

Tags: grep curl gmail notify

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Displays the number of unread messages on your gmail at the top right corner of your terminal

Checks your gmail account every 30 seconds and display the number of new messages in the top right corner of the terminal.

A kind of CLI "Gmail notifier" if you will. :-)

This is a mashup of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7916/put-a-console-clock-in-top-right-corner and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3386/check-your-unread-gmail-from-the-command-line

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switchMonitor () { LF=/tmp/screen-lock; if [ -f $LF ]; then rm $LF; else touch $LF; sleep .5; while [ -f $LF ]; do xset dpms force off; sleep 2; done; fi };

2011-08-26 17:55:44

User: totti

Functions: rm sleep touch

Tags: screen power xset dpms

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shut of the screen ( Fool proof )

Use the command to create a script and bind it to a key using keyboard shortcut.

eg:

Script locks the screen in a loop until the command is executed again.At first it

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

2011-08-26 11:54:16

User: totti

Functions: sleep

Tags: battery notify

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Notify on Battery power

Works on Laptops, Desktop having communication b/w UPS & CPU

(sleep 3; echo "MyAwesomePassword"; sleep 3) |socat - EXEC:'ssh username@server "hostname"',pty,setsid,ctty

2011-08-24 14:13:18

User: TommyBotten

Functions: echo sleep

Tags: socat pts

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Use socat to wrap around your pty to enter the password.

You should really use keys. Really. I'm serious.

But if you have to add your key, change password etc. for a long list of servers, this might help.

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while notify-send "`acpi -t`"; do sleep 300; done

2011-07-05 18:22:06

User: unixmonkey8046

Functions: sleep

Tags: loop notify-send GUI acpi

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Use acpi and notify-send to report current temperature every five minutes.

Works best in a shell script run at startup. acpi is called for temperature and fed to notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over.

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while ping -c 1 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null; do acpi -t -f | while read tem; do notify-send "$tem"; done; sleep 300; done

2011-07-02 06:47:25

User: c0de

Functions: acpi ping read sleep

Tags: loop notify-send GUI acpi

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Use acpi and notify-send to report current temperature every five minutes.

works best in a shell script run at startup. It will ping localhost once and output to null, after it does that, acpi is called for temperature in fahrenheit and piped through to another loop that feeds notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over.

while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/1000)) && beep -f 2000 -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done

2011-06-29 02:38:33

User: otisspud

Functions: sleep

Tags: annoyatron

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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

2011-06-29 02:34:41

User: otisspud

Functions: sleep

Tags: annoyatron

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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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dd if=/dev/urandom of=file.img bs=4KB& pid=$!; while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]]; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 1 && clear; done

2011-06-24 21:49:10

User: unixmonkey14934

Functions: dd kill sleep

Tags: dd progress

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Watch the progress of 'dd'

Only slightly different than previous commands. The benefit is that your "watch" should die when the dd command has completed. (Of course this would depend on /proc being available)

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var=host ;while ! nc -zw 1 $var 22;do sleep 1; done ; ssh user@$var

2011-06-22 21:07:57

User: Pieton217

Functions: sleep ssh

Tags: ssh ssh connect back

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Automatically connect to a host with ssh once it is online

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while true; do date; ssh <YOUR HOST HERE> "echo" && echo "HOST UP" && break; sleep 60; done

2011-05-29 19:54:16

User: unixmonkey11685

Functions: echo sleep ssh

Tags: ssh host

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monitor when target host will be up

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i=0;while :; do i=$(expr "$i" + 1); scrot "$i".png; sleep 2; done;

2011-05-27 00:25:28

User: scripteles

Functions: expr sleep

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Take a screenshot every 2 seconds

Take a screenshot every 2 seconds and save it as a png file

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while sleep 1; do date; (netstat -a -n | grep 80) ; done

2011-05-16 07:56:56

User: hute37

Functions: grep netstat sleep

Tags: netstat logging

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Polls fos network port usage

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while true; do /bin/ping -q -c1 -w3 8.8.8.8 2>&1 > /dev/null || echo "8.8.8.8 ping failed at $(date +%d/%m/%y) $(date +%H:%M:%S)" >> /var/log/ping.log; sleep 10; done &

2011-05-12 01:51:07

User: Arkey

Functions: echo sleep

Tags: log ping internet connection

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Check a internet connetion is up. If it isn't write a log.

This command are using by me for checking connection with Internet.

sleep 4h && halt

2011-05-02 13:46:30

User: javisol

Functions: sleep

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shutdown pc in a 4 hours

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while true; do tput sc; tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-74)); w | grep load; tput rc; sleep 10; done &

2011-04-27 09:28:27

User: ahofmann

Functions: grep sleep tput

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Put a console clock in top right corner

Gives not only date but also some interesting status about the System

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