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Returns tomorrow's date in the format yyyyMMdd
-2TOM=`perl -w -e '@tom=localtime(time+86400);printf "%d%.2d%.2d",$tom[5]+1900,$tom[4]+1,$tom[3];'` -
In case the line you want to join start with a char different than ", you may use \n.*"\n as regex.
-2:g/\n"/jo -
-2echo $PATH|awk -F: ' { for (i=1; i <= NF; i++) print $i }'
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Instead of having someone else read you the Digg headlines, Have OSX do it. Requires Curl+Sed+Say. This could probably be easily modified to use espeak for Linux.
-2IFS=`echo -en "\n\b"`; for i in $(curl http://feeds.digg.com/digg/container/technology/popular.rss | grep '<title>' | sed -e 's#<[^>]*>##g' | tail -n10); do echo $i; echo $i | sed 's/^/Did you hear about /g' | say; sleep 30; done -
-2:bufdo %s/foo/bar/ge | up
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-2dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2=="install" {print $1}' | sort
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-2wget http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/e7__7dal
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Uses dpkg -S or apt-file to find the file you want and shows results in various ways. Available at https://github.com/Pipeliner/configs/blob/master/bin/pacof
pacof -xp 'bin/[^/]*mixer'alsamixergui alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils ... Show Sample Output-2pacof -e rlogin -
was inspired by http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8936/boot-from-a-block-device-without-giving-root-privilege-to-virtual-box volpedimongibello= virtual machine name fighetto= controller name tutto.iso= DVD iso image How to remove the DVD: VBoxManage storageattach "volpedimongibello" --storagectl "fighetto" --port 1 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium none
-2VBoxManage storageattach "volpedimongibello" --storagectl "fighetto" --port 1 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium "/tanto/mipaghi/tutto.iso -
-2find ~/.mozilla -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
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Opens up a tab separated file in less with columns printed prettily
-2col_look(){ column -nts$'\t' "$1" | less -SN#2 } -
If you have tried to change your prompt and made a mistake, use this command to retrieve a standard prompt. If you used the export command when you changed your prompt, also use it there: export PS1='$PWD$ '
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This heavy one liner gets all the files in the "/music/dir/" directory and filters for non 44.1 mp3 files. After doing this it passes the names to sox in-order to re-sample those files. The original files are left just in case.
-2file /music/dir/* | grep -v 44.1 | sed 's/:.*//g' | grep .mp3 | { while IFS= read; do filebak="\"$REPLY.original\""; file="\"$REPLY\""; mv $file $filebak; sox -t mp3 $filebak $file rate 44k; done; }; -
Report memory and swap space utilization statistics e.g. memory free/used, swap free/used
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Stops when the (last) dd process exits.
-2while killall -USR1 dd; do sleep 5; done -
If both file1 and file2 are already sorted: comm -13 file1 file2 > file-new
-2comm -13 <(sort file1) <(sort file2) > file-new -
-2watch -n1 --differences cat /proc/meminfo
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hb(){ sed "s/\($*\)/`tput setaf 2;tput setab 0;tput blink`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; }hb blinks, hc does a reverse color with background.. both very nice.hc(){ sed "s/\($*\)/`tput setaf 0;tput setab 6`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; }Run this:command ps -Hacl -F S -A f | hc ".*$PPID.*" | hb ".*$$.*"Your welcome ;) From my bash profile - http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Show Sample Output-2hb(){ sed "s/\($*\)/`tput setaf 2;tput setab 0;tput blink`\1`tput sgr0`/gI"; } -
-2find / -name FILENAME
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-2sudo scutil --set HostName MY_NEW_HOSTNAME
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-2gpg --refresh-keys
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download every last pdf reference Doc from the Apple Developer Connection, takes a half hour on a fast connection. enjoy!
-2wget -nd -nH -r -A pdf -I library/mac/documentation/ http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Reference -
-2git push origin --all
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-2for %%f in (*.json) do type %%f >> aggregate.json
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defunct processes (zombies) usually have to be killed by killing their parent processes. this command retrieves such zombies and their immediate parents and kills all of the matching processes.
-2ps afx | grep defunct -B 1 | grep -Eo "[0-9]{3,}" | xargs kill -9 - ‹ First < 517 518 519 520 521 > Last ›
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