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call vim help page from shell prompt

simple function i found somewhere to open vim help page from the shell use :h like you would in vim
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function :h { vim +":h $1" +'wincmd o' +'nnoremap q :q!<CR>' ;}

Bonster · 2013-04-04 08:12:28 5
tree by modify time with newest file at bottom

Go look at sample output first This is kind of like the ls command but displays by modify time with size, date and color. The newest files at the bottom of the screen (reverse using tac) Show Sample Output
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```
[ 51K Nov  1  2011]  tumblr_l5nwigUrGH1qzdmku.jpg
[ 56K Apr  3 12:00]  incoming_wallpapers
[4.0K Apr  5 21:01]  Wallpaper_Keep
[493K Apr 10 21:44]  ChooseADistroChart.png
[4.0K Jul 23 11:15]  Screenshots
[ 52K Jul 28  0:01]  Wallpapers
```
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tree -L 1 -ChDit | tac

Bonster · 2012-07-28 13:47:41 4
Universal archive extractor

easy extract files without remembering all the commands for different formats. atools does other things also like listing archives content, converting from one format to another ...etc. Supports whatever is install on your system such as tar, zip, rar, 7z, rpm, deb, cab , ace, jar ...etc
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atool -x filename

Bonster · 2012-06-14 21:40:57 7
convert single digit to double digits

from 1.ogg 2.ogg 3.ogg 10.ogg 11.ogg to 01.ogg 02.ogg 03.ogg 10.ogg 11.ogg
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for i in ?.ogg; do mv $i 0$i; done

Bonster · 2012-05-15 02:52:52 11
vim as a pager - similar to less command but with color

use vim like less command pager but with color highlighting = pretty :p also u can use /usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/less.sh
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alias vless='/usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/macros/less.sh'

Bonster · 2012-04-28 23:01:25 6
convert doc to pdf

convert to pdf and many other formats and vise versa to get a list of supported formats, run unoconv --show
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unoconv -f pdf filename.doc

Bonster · 2012-04-07 12:38:51 5
Replace with XFCE Window Manager
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xfwm4 --replace

Bonster · 2012-04-03 14:05:09 5
Show full system info
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inxi -F

Bonster · 2012-03-11 06:42:04 4
Open any file and suppress error warnings message

use xdg-open without looking at error messages examples msg: (nautilus:3955): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: Notebook.css:21:15: Junk at end of value
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alias o='xdg-open "$@" 2>/dev/null'

Bonster · 2011-12-26 08:52:22 6
extract .ace file

extracting .ace files yay
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unace x [file]

Bonster · 2011-12-25 06:58:04 6
pastebinit - command-line pastebin client

paste file to pastebin (other similar sites available, read man page). make sure to have 'pastebinit' install
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pastebinit [file]

Bonster · 2011-12-22 14:21:47 4
Google Tasks webapp using Chromium Browser

requires a gmail account, it opens Google tasks in a self contain window, to write your todo list and have it sync online yay =)
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alias gtasks='chromium-browser --app=https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig'

Bonster · 2011-12-05 22:11:00 4
ThePirateBay.org torrent search

usage: tpb searchterm example: tpb the matrix trilogy This searches for torrents from thepiratebay and displays the top results in reverse order, so the 1st result is at the bottom instead of the top -- which is better for command line users
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tpb() { wget -U Mozilla -qO - $(echo "http://thepiratebay.org/search/$@/0/7/0" | sed 's/ /\%20/g') | grep -o 'http\:\/\/torrents\.thepiratebay\.org\/.*\.torrent' | tac; }

Bonster · 2011-10-26 12:15:55 29
use mplayer to watch Apple Movie Trailer instead of quicktime player

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/ just copy the .mov link and use mplayer to stream
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mplayer -rtsp-stream-over-tcp -user-agent QuickTime/7.6.4 http://trailers.apple.com/movies/HDmovie-h720p.mov

Bonster · 2011-10-24 10:53:53 9
Command line calculator

use python as calculator, press ctrl+d to exit reminder: when doing factions add atleast one decimal number like so 22.0/7 or 22/7.0 Show Sample Output
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```
$ calc
>>> 22.0/7
3.1428571428571428
>>> 22/7.0
3.1428571428571428
>>> 
```
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alias calc='python -ic "from math import *; from random import *"'

Bonster · 2011-10-24 08:15:41 4
reverse order of file

awk reverse order of lines (emulates "tac")
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awk '{a[i++]=$0} END {for (j=i-1; j>=0;) print a[j--] }'

Bonster · 2011-10-23 10:28:23 5
Change Random Wallpaper on Gnome 3

Change Random Wallpaper on Gnome 3
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gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file://"$(find ~/Wallpapers -type f | shuf -n1)"

Bonster · 2011-10-21 12:24:58 8
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

Same as 7272 but that one was too dangerous so i added -P to prompt users to continue or cancel Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel).
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sudo aptitude remove -P $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-2/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic\nlinux-image-%s-generic\n",$0,$0,$0)}')

Bonster · 2011-04-25 05:19:57 4
View a sopcast stream

requires sp-auth installed This command will auto kill sp-sc after vlc is closed, so u wont have to do it manually
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(sp-sc sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/80562 8908 10999 &>/dev/null &); sleep 10; wait $(vlc http://localhost:10999); killall sp-sc

Bonster · 2011-04-06 00:08:38 4
Plowshare, download files from cyberlocker like rapidshare megaupload ...etc

you need to have plowshare installed http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/ plowshare supports Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2Shared, 4Shared, ZShare, Badongo, Divshare.com, Depositfiles, Netload.in, Sendspace, Usershare, x7.to and some others file sharing services.
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plowdown http://www.megaupload.com/?d=abc1234567

Bonster · 2011-04-01 09:52:39 7
List Seeon.tv Available Video Channels

This shows a list of channels from seeon.tv website to watch shows and movies
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lynx --dump http://www.seeon.tv/channels| grep "/channels"|awk '{print $2}'|sort -u|while read links; do lynx --dump "$links"|awk '/view/ {print $2}'|sort -u; done

Bonster · 2011-04-01 05:58:20 6
Launch a Java .jar App

Use this to make a launcher for Java apps ( .jar files ) such as with jdownloader
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java -jar /path/to/filename.jar

Bonster · 2011-04-01 05:44:56 16
Change the default Catfish file manager and search method

Change the launcher of catfish to use a different file manager Example: using Find catfish --fileman=nautilus --path=/home/ --hidden --method=find using Locate catfish --fileman=pcmanfm --path=/ --hidden --method=locate Update Locate DB sudo updatedb
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catfish --fileman=nautilus --path=/home/<username> --hidden --method=find

Bonster · 2011-04-01 05:33:00 6
Minimize Apps When Middle Clicking on Titlebar

Middle click on titlebar to minimize apps
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gconftool-2 --set "/apps/metacity/general/action_middle_click_titlebar" --type string "minimize"

Bonster · 2011-03-31 07:38:05 6
Stop All Wine Apps and Processes

kills all wine running apps and processes. Make a hotkey for it when running wine games in fullscreen and it locks. This is a great way to escape from it.
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wineserver -k

Bonster · 2011-03-30 08:32:20 17
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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

fetch all revisions of a specific file in an SVN repository

Manages everything through one sed script instead of pipes of greps and awks. Quoting of shell variables is generally easier within a sed script.

Url Encode

Converts reserved characters in a URI to their percent encoded counterparts. Alternate python version: $ echo "$url" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;print urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip())'

external projector for presentations

i spent way too many hours trying to fiddle with /etc/X11/xorg.conf trying to hook up various external projectors. too bad i didn't know this would solve all my problems.

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"

set a reminder for 5 days in the future

setup for reminder in 5 days, added the date in the future. To run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do at 4pm + 3 days, to run a job at 10:00am on July 31, you would do at 10am Jul 31 and to run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do at 1am tomorrow.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Rename files in batch

Edit a file inside a compressed archive without extracting it

If you vim a compressed file it will list all archive content, then you can pickup any of them for editing and saving. There you have the modified archive without any extra step. It supports many file types such as tar.gz, tgz, zip, etc.

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