json2yaml is an npm package https://www.npmjs.com/package/json2yaml You must have node and npm installed to install/use this Show Sample Output

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the sed way to print a linhe with 50 hyphens

Sometimes you want to work on data sheets by using heirloom unic commands like cut, paste, sed, sort, wc and good old awk. But your user works on Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The idea: 1) ask your user to save it as "Unicode Text" from Microsoft Excel and send the document to you; 2) use the given command to convert it to UTF-8 text. We carefully convert "\r\n" to local end-of-line character; and to convert "\n" (in Excel, means linebreak within the table cell") to "\r", which is carrier return but not end-of-line in Unix. If the "\n" is not replaced with "\r", for example, wc -l will report incorrect column number.

The command requires app-text/xmlstarlet but it otherwise self-contained. It extracts all the herds and all the maintainers' email for a given package and is what I'm using on the Tinderbox to make it easier for me to report bugs. Show Sample Output

Recursively download all files of a certain type down to two levels, ignoring directory structure and local duplicates. Usage: wgetall mp3 http://example.com/download/

List all svn externals dependencies of a specific project. Show Sample Output

Usage: watch ls -l Basic but usable replacement for the "watch" command for those systems which don't have it (e.g. the Solaris I'm trapped on). Type Ctrl+V to escape the following Ctrl+L which clears the screen. It will be displayed as "^L".

The find command can do this on it's own. This is a shorter faster version, it also includes more advanced regex (it will find .Jpg etc). Find doesn't need a pipe, you can run it directly from the command.

Credit for the awk command goes to: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-move-migrate-user-accounts-old-to-new-server/

Shows the 10 biggest files/dirs

I used this (along with a modified one replacing `mkv` with `srt`) to remove the slight differences in who the provider of the video / matching subtitle was (as they are the same contents and the subs match anyway). So now VLC (and other video players) can easily guess the subtitle file. Show Sample Output

This is just a default ssh-keygen command. Prompts for a password that you can use to secure the keys more and uses a higher bit value than the default along with naming the key something other than id_rsa for better file identification.

Run container like a daemon

Basically, \033[ is a semi-portable unix escape character. It should work in linux, osx, bsd, etc. The first option is 38. This tells whatever is interpreting this (and this is merely convention) that a special color sequence follows. The next option is 5 which says that the next option will specify a color ? {0..256} of course. These options, as you can see, are separated by a single `;` and the entire escape sequence is followed by a mandatory `m`. The second escape sequence (following "COLOR") is simply to clear all terminal attributes (for our purposes, it clears color). This for loop is helpful for testing all 256 colors in a 256 console (note: this will not work in a standard Linux tty console) or to see which number corresponds to which color so that perhaps you can use it! Show Sample Output

Credit goes here: http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/12/03/some-lists/ Show Sample Output

the sql command lpad and rpad using sed for lpad, invert the &_ with _&: ls / | sed -e :a -e 's/^.\{1,15\}$/_$/;ta' Show Sample Output

this simply curls the feed and runs a xpath query on it ... Show Sample Output

This fixes the extra lines you get when you request only 1 paragraph using a little bit of grep. Just set p to the number of paragraphs you want. Show Sample Output