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Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.
Yields entries in the form of "/dev/hda1" etc.
Use this if you are on a new system and don't know how the storage hardware (ide, sata, scsi, usb - with ever changing descriptors) is connected and which partitions are available.
Far better than using "fdisk -l" on guessed device descriptors.
QR codes are those funny square 2d bar codes that everyone seems to be pointing their smart phones at.
Try the following...
$ qrurl http://xkcd.com
Then open qr.*.png in your favorite image viewer.
Point your the bar code reader on your smart phone at the code, and you'll shortly be reading xkcd on your phone.
URLs are not the only thing that can be encoded by QR codes... short texts (to around 2K) can be encoded this way, although this function doesn't do any URL encoding, so unless you want to do that by hand it won't be useful for that.
##Dependancies: bash coreutils
Many executables in $PATH have the keyword somewhere other than the beginning in their file names. The command is useful for exploring the executables in $PATH like this.
$ find ${PATH//:/ } -executable -type f -printf "%f\n" |grep admin
lpadmin
time-admin
network-admin
svnadmin
users-admin
django-admin
shares-admin
services-admin
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds.
sec2dhms() {
declare -i SS="$1"
D=$(( SS / 86400 ))
H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 ))
M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 ))
S=$(( SS % 60 ))
[ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:"
[ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H"
printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S"
}
How much memory is chrome sucking?
This is an alternative to #9131. ffmpeg didn't work on my .au files, though it did on the .wav ones. Also useful if you don't have ffmpeg but do have sox. Handily, sox already reports in seconds (decimal).
expr will give you a quick way to do basic math from the CLI. Make sure you escape things like * and leave a space between operators and digits.