This assumes you have the package installed necessary for converting WMF files. On my Ubuntu box, this is libwmf-bin. I used this command, as libwmf is not on my wife's iMac, so I archived the directories containing the WMF files from OS X, ran them on my Ubuntu box, archived the resulting SVGs, and sent them back to her. Quick, simple and to the point. Searches directories recursively looking for extensions ignoring case. This is much more readable and clean than -exec for find. The while loop also gives further flexibility on complex logic. Also, although there is 'wmf2svg --auto', it expects lowercase extensions, and not uppercase. Because I want to ignore case, I need to use the -o option instead. Works in ZSH and BASH. Haven't tested in other shells.

Converts a single FLAC file with associated cue file into multiple FLAC files. Takes two arguments: the name of the FLAC file and and the name of the cue file. Example: flacAlbumToFiles foo.flac foo.cue Requires: - cuetools - shntools

This is a simple example of using proper command nesting using $() over ``. There are a number of advantages of $() over backticks. First, they can be easily nested without escapes: program1 $(program2 $(program3 $(program4))) versus program1 `program2 \`program3 \`program4\`\`` Second, they're easier to read, then trying to decipher the difference between the backtick and the singlequote: `'. The only drawback $() suffers from is lack of total portability. If your script must be portable to the archaic Bourne shell, or old versions of the C-shell or Korn shell, then backticks are appropriate, otherwise, we should all get into the habit of $(). Your future script maintainers will thank you for producing cleaner code.

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You also can sum the file usage of all files find /usr/lib -maxdepth 1 -type l -print0 | xargs -r0 du -Lch

Suppose you made a backup of your hard disk with dd: dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/disk/backup.img This command enables you to mount a partition from inside this image, so you can access your files directly. Substitute PARTITION=1 with the number of the partition you want to mount (returned from sfdisk -d yourfile.img). Show Sample Output

First you have to create a directory in your system, where the fonts will be stored, and copy them. sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/miscttf; sudo cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/miscttf After recharge cache with the command

man tcptraceroute

The large context number (-C 1000) is a bit of a hack, but in most of my use cases, it makes sure I'll see the whole log output.

This command is much quicker than the alternative of "sort | uniq -c | sort -n". Show Sample Output

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with discard wilcards in bash you can "tail" newer logs files to see what happen, any error, info, warn... Show Sample Output

/path/ is the root folder of the DVD, not the VIDEO_TS folder.

This will print out the third column of every line in FILE. Useful for many files in /proc or *csv data. Show Sample Output

Often, the very next command after the cd command is 'ls', so why not combine them?. Tested on a Red Hat derivative and Mac OS X Leopard Update: changed ${1:-$HOME} to "${@:-$HOME}" to accomodate directories with spaces in the names

Useful if you want get all the md5sum of files but you want exclude some directories. If your list of files is short you can make in one command as follow: find . -type d \( -name DIR1 -o -name DIR2 \) -prune -o -type f -exec md5sum {} \; Alternatively you can specify a different command to be executed on the resulting files.