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

handles file names with spaces and colons, fixes sort (numeric!), uses mplayer, same output format as other alternatives

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

Similar.

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)

Similar but using mediainfo instead of totem-something

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

With GNU chmod at least it is that simple.

I hate -exec with find, and this pattern quickly expands to other tasks.

Sort .avi movies by time length, print the longest first, and so on... Show Sample Output

Stops when the (last) dd process exits.

If you leave out the block size it defaults to 512 bytes. I set it to 16 Megabytes and it was much faster...

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.

With this form you dont need to cut out target directory using grep/sed/etc.

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.

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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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.

This works on some other version of read.

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