You will get an json respond if all is fine Show Sample Output

only simple example how to combine rclone & jq Show Sample Output

Get the two first lines of a file and quit. Show Sample Output

Extracts only file number 12 from file. It's meant for text files. Replace 12 with the number you want. First line starts at 1 not 0. We use q on next line so doesn't process any line more.

Use -i option to edit directly a file: sed -i 's|\/|\\|g' file Show Sample Output

Use -i to edit file directly: sed -i 's|\\|\/|g' file Show Sample Output

It his example removes ' dog', last space included. Show Sample Output

Downloads the frame of given YouTube video at 8 minutes 14 seconds. Requested format is "299", which 1080p only video.

A text file contains thousands of numbers. This command prints lines were the number is greater or equal than a specified value (134000000). Show Sample Output

single-column-numbers.txt is a text file with 22658 rows (numbers) in a single column. Each number can range from 0 to 134298679.533591 and the dot is for the decimals. This is done with perl because awk can't sum such high numbers. Show Sample Output

The Linux Cross Referencer is nice: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source but when you want to find an example usage of an idiom across multiple lines, piping the ack-grep output to less is quicker. The --cc limits the search to C code, -i to ignore case, -A4 because most wait_event variants have 4 arguments that may be on lines after the function name. Use --make to search makefiles Show Sample Output

No need to use perl, awk, nor /usr/bin/date -- bash's "printf" builtin will do it. Show Sample Output

Output the current time in Swatch “Internet Time”, aka .beats. There are 1000 .beats in a day, and @0 is at 00:00 Central European Standard Time. This was briefly a thing in the late 1990s. More details: https://2020.swatch.com/en_ca/internet-time/ The alias is rather quote heavy to protect the subshell, so the bare command is: echo '@'$(TZ=GMT-1 date +'(%-S + %-M * 60 + %-H * 3600) / 86.4'|bc) Show Sample Output

“$0” is a variable returning the name of the script that you call it in — so running “./$0&” twice amounts to the script running itself in a separate process twice. Show Sample Output

Get newest kernel version by parsing the most bleeding-edge Makefile possible. Useful for doing things like writing live ebuilds and/or self-updating PKGBUILDs for testing purposes. Breakdown: * wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/Makefile — retrieve Makefile and pipe to stdout * head -n5 — only the first 5 lines are relevant, that's where all the version variables are grep -E '\ \=\ [0-9]{1,}' — version variables always have an equals sign followed by a number * cut -d' ' -f3 — extract the individual numbers from the version variables * tr '\n' '.' — replace newlines with periods * sed -e "s/\.$// — remove trailing period Show Sample Output

Placing sudo in the shebang line of a shell script runs the entire thing as root. Useful for scripts designed to, e.g. automate system upgrades or package manager wrappers — makes prepending everything with sudo no longer necessary

Tested in Debian, ymmv. - c 1 : send only one ping;; -W 1: wait for one second and then exit ping, assuming target IP is not available; change as needed (-W 0.5 for half a second, smaller or greater value depending on network speed/latency)