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Burst a Single PDF Document into Single Pages and Report its Data to doc_data.txt

Require the pdftk package It ll split each page in your pdf file , into a new pdf file and report info on doc_data.txt Show Sample Output

pdftk mydoc.pdf burst

eastwind · 2009-11-10 09:00:50 3

facebook
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ping www.facebook.com

thuynnx · 2009-11-09 20:26:50 11
Sort movies by length, longest first

handles file names with spaces and colons, fixes sort (numeric!), uses mplayer, same output format as other alternatives
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find -name '*.avi' | while read i ; do echo $(mplayer -identify -frames 0 -vo null -nosound "$i" 2>&1 | grep ID_LENGTH | cut -d= -f2)" ""$i" ;done | sort -k1 -r -n | sed 's/^$[^\ ]*$\ $.*$$/\2:\1/g'

ZungBang · 2009-11-09 17:14:59 3
Clean your broken terminal

If something fracks up your terminal, just type in 'reset' and everything should be good again.
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reset

flart · 2009-11-09 16:15:26 8
Make an iso file out of your entire hard drive

Similar.
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dd if=/dev/hda of=file.img

yooreck · 2009-11-09 16:05:17 5
Clean your broken terminal

When some console full-screen program (minicom, vi, some installers) breaks down your terminal, try this command to revert all options to "sane" settings (sane is a built-in combo of a lot of stty options)
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stty sane

darkpand · 2009-11-09 15:58:06 29
Sort movies by length, longest first

Similar but using mediainfo instead of totem-something
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for i in *.avi; do echo -n "$i:";mediainfo $i|head | grep PlayTime | cut -d: -f2 ; done | sort -t: -k2 -r

yooreck · 2009-11-09 12:42:20 3
Remove lines that contain a specific pattern($1) from file($2).

The -i option in sed allows in-place editing of the input file. Replace myexpression with any regular expression. /expr/d syntax means if the expression matches then delete the line. You can reverse the functionality to keep matching lines only by using: sed -i -n '/myexpression/p' /path/to/file.txt
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sed -i '/myexpression/d' /path/to/file.txt

jgc · 2009-11-09 11:40:45 7
Create a thumbnail from a video file
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thumbnail() { ffmpeg -itsoffset -20 -i $i -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 640x272 ${i%.*}.jpg }

Nicolargo · 2009-11-09 09:42:55 5
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories

With GNU chmod at least it is that simple.
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chmod -R -x+X *

CodSpirit · 2009-11-09 07:41:27 9
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories

I hate -exec with find, and this pattern quickly expands to other tasks.
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find . -type f | while read f; do chmod -x "$f"; done

alesplin · 2009-11-09 04:30:44 3
Sort movies by length, longest first

Sort .avi movies by time length, print the longest first, and so on... Show Sample Output
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```
Casshern.action.avi:8527
Gomorra.FRENCH.DVDRiP.avi:7886
Harvey.Milk.avi:7698
Rescue.Dawn.guerre.avi:7525
Esther.avi:7374
sept.vies.drame.avi:7366
Pr?dictions.action.avi:7289
Midnight.Run.comedie.aventure.avi:7263
Jugez.moi.coupable.avi:7177
U-Turn.avi:7163
```
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for i in *.avi; do echo -n "$i:";totem-gstreamer-video-indexer $i | grep DURATION | cut -d "=" -f 2 ; done | sort -t: -k2 -r

iadbungler · 2009-11-09 02:59:53 3
check the status of 'dd' in progress

Stops when the (last) dd process exits.
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while killall -USR1 dd; do sleep 5; done

Mikachu · 2009-11-09 00:27:33 3
Delete everything on hda

If you leave out the block size it defaults to 512 bytes. I set it to 16 Megabytes and it was much faster...
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=16M

Clopnixus · 2009-11-09 00:13:35 3
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories

Useful if you have copied files from an OS without a permission structure (for example, DOS) and you need to disable all executable files but want to be able to descend into your directories.
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find . ! -type d -exec chmod -x {}\;

drashkeev · 2009-11-08 21:27:08 4
Create subdirectory and move files into it

With this form you dont need to cut out target directory using grep/sed/etc.
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(ls; mkdir subdir; echo subdir) | xargs mv

mechmind · 2009-11-08 11:40:55 13
Both view and pipe the file without saving to disk

This is a cool trick to view the contents of the file on /dev/pts/0 (or whatever terminal you're using), and also send the contents of that file to another program by way of an unnamed pipe. All the while, you've not bothered saving any extra data to disk, like you might be tempted to do with sed or grep to filter output.
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cat /path/to/some/file.txt | tee /dev/pts/0 | wc -l

atoponce · 2009-11-07 22:24:28 5
Upload images to omploader.org from the command line.

This function uploads images to http://omploader.org and then prints out the links to the file. Some coloring can also be added to the command with: ompload() { curl -F file1=@"$1" http://omploader.org/upload|awk '/Info:|File:|Thumbnail:|BBCode:/{gsub(/<[^<]*?\/?>/,"");$1=$1;sub(/^/,"\033[0;34m");sub(/:/,"\033[0m:");print}';} Show Sample Output
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```
user@lappy:~$ ompload ompload.png
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 77812  100  2302  100 75510    870  28559  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 30558
Info:http://omploader.org/iMnB2eQ
File:http://omploader.org/vMnB2eQ
Thumbnail:http://omploader.org/tMnB2eQ
BBCode:[url=http://omploader.org/vMnB2eQ][img]http://omploader.org/tMnB2eQ[/img][/url]
```
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ompload() { curl -# -F file1=@"$1" http://ompldr.org/upload|awk '/Info:|File:|Thumbnail:|BBCode:/{gsub(/<[^<]*?\/?>/,"");$1=$1;print}';}

eightmillion · 2009-11-07 20:56:52 5
Play random music from blip.fm
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mpg123 `curl -s http://blip.fm/all | sed -e 's#"#\n#g' | grep mp3$ | xargs`

torrid · 2009-11-07 14:48:01 7

Play music from youtube without download

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wget -q -O - `youtube-dl -b -g $url`| ffmpeg -i - -f mp3 -vn -acodec libmp3lame -| mpg123 -

torrid · 2009-11-07 13:45:13 17

another tweet function

This version of tweet() doesn't require you to put quotes around the body of your tweet... it also prompts you for password. It will still barf on a '!' character.
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tweet () { curl -u UserName -d status="$*" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml; }

bartonski · 2009-11-07 06:54:02 5
Count emails in an MBOX file
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grep -c '^From ' mbox_file

drewk · 2009-11-07 03:31:05 4
Press Any Key to Continue
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read -sn 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...';echo

arcege · 2009-11-07 03:05:21 4
Press Any Key to Continue

This works on some other version of read.
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echo -n "Press any key to continue..." && read

matthewbauer · 2009-11-06 22:49:46 5
Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

A shell function using perl to easily convert Unix-time to text. Put in in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent. Tested on Linux / Solaris Bourne, bash and zsh. using perl 5.6 and higher. (Does not require GNU date like some other commands) Show Sample Output
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```
$ utime 1234567890
Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 2009
```
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utime(){ perl -e "print localtime($1).\"\n\"";}

MoHaG · 2009-11-06 12:58:10 3
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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

geoip information

Not my script. Belongs to mathewbauer. Used without his permission. This script gives a single line as shown in the sample output. NOTE: I have blanked out the IP address for obvious security reasons. But you will get whatever is your IP if you run the script. Tested working in bash.

bulk dl files based on a pattern

-O switch creates local filename same as remote curl [][] -o #1#2 makes local files unique inserting sequence values into #x placeholders sequences can be alpha or numeric e.g [a-z] [1-25]

shorten url using curl, sed and is.gd

Just create a function in your .bashrc like this shorturl() { curl -s -d URL="$1" http://is.gd/create.php | sed '/Your new shortened/!d;s/.*value="$[^"]*$".*/\1/' }

Copy a directory recursively without data/files

Find passwords that has been stored as plain text in NetworkManager

Create a script of the last executed command

Sometimes commands are long, but useful, so it's helpful to be able to make them permanent without having to retype them. An alternative could use the history command, and a cut/sed line that works on your platform. $history -1 | cut -c 7- > foo.sh

add the result of a command into vi

':r!ls -l' results in listing the files in the current directory and paste it into vi

Wait for an already launched program to stop before starting a new command.

Referring to the original post, if you are using $! then that means the process is a child of the current shell, so you can just use `wait $!`. If you are trying to wait for a process created outside of the current shell, then the loop on `kill -0 $PID` is good; although, you can't get the exit status of the process.

Not a kismet replacement...

If you're like some individuals who rely on ndiswrapper and cannot use kismet, this command may be of service. watch -n .5 "iwlist wlan0 scan | egrep 'ESSID|Encryption'" Or... watch -n .5 "iwlist wlan0 scan | egrep 'ESSID|Encryption' | egrep 'linksys'" :-) Hopefully you'll find some dd-wrt compatible routers.

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