Commands using tr

Also shows files as they are found. Only works from a tty.

Copying and pasting from Office documents open in Office:mac can dirty your files with Windows CRLF and (inexplicably) Classic Mac OS LF newlines, which can break some tools. This snippet replaces them with good ol' Unix LF newlines.

If there are spaces won't work.

Convert long list of ' ' to a single space. Compress space and other characters.

Translates first set into second set

All files in the directory will be renamed replacing every space in the filename by "_" (underline) and converting upper case characters to lower case characters.

e.g. Foo Bar.txt --> foo_bar.txt

Use tput cols to find the width of the terminal and set it as the minimum field width.

dd can be used with /dev/zero to easily create a file of all zero-bytes. Pipe that through tr and use octal conversions to change the byte values from zero to 0xff (octal 0377). You can replace 0377 with the byte of your choice. You can also use \\0 and \\377 instead of the quoted version.

Returns last day of current month. Useful to implement a bash script backup based on a GFS strategy.

usage: dng BRE [selection]

default selection is the last match

DNS is ok, but although domainnames may be easier to remember than IP numbers, it still requires typing them out. This can be error-prone. Even more so than typing IPv4 numbers, depending on the domainname, its length and complexity.

In this example, the command will recursively find files (-type f) under /some/path, where the path ends in .mp3, case insensitive (-iregex).

It will then output a single line of output (-print0), with results terminated by a the null character (octal 000). Suitable for piping to xargs -0. This type of output avoids issues with garbage in paths, like unclosed quotes.

The tr command then strips away everything but the null chars, finally piping to wc -c, to get a character count.

I have found this very useful, to verify one is getting the right number of before you actually process the results through xargs or similar. Yes, one can issue the find without the -print0 and use wc -l, however if you want to be 1000% sure your find command is giving you the expected number of results, this is a simple way to check.

The approach can be made in to a function and then included in .bashrc or similar. e.g.

In this form it provides a versatile character counter of text streams :)

This works in combination with http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10496/identify-exported-sonames-in-a-path as it reports the NEEDED entries present in the files within a given path. You can then compare it with the libraries that are exported to make sure that, when cross-building a firmware image, you're not bringing in dependencies from the build host.

The short version of it as can be seen in the same output is

Take a file and ,."()?!;: give a list of all the words in order of increasing length.

First of all use tr to map all alphabetic characters to lower case and also strip out any puntuation.

A-Z become a-z

,."()?!;: all become \n (newline)

I've ignored - (hyphen) and ' (apostrophe) because they occur in words.

Next use bash to print the length ${#w} and the word

Finally sort the list numerically (sort -n) and remove any duplicates (sort -u).

Note: sort -nu performs strangely on this list. It outputs one word per length.

The script gets the dimensions and position of a window and calls ffmpeg to record audio and video of that window. It saves it to a file named output.mkv

just deletes to rogue CR from dos files, and tr is always available.

Certain Flash video players (e.g. Youtube) write their video streams to disk in /tmp/ , but the files are unlinked. i.e. the player creates the file and then immediately deletes the filename (unlinking files in this way makes it hard to find them, and/or ensures their cleanup if the browser or plugin should crash etc.) But as long as the flash plugin's process runs, a file descriptor remains in its /proc/ hierarchy, from which we (and the player) still have access to the file. The method above worked nicely for me when I had 50 tabs open with Youtube videos and didn't want to have to re-download them all with some tool.

for music file of mp3.zing.vn

Using urandom to get random data, deleting non-letters with tr and print the first $1 bytes.