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Create A Continuous Yahoo! News Ticker For The Terminal

This creates a permanent stock ticker in the terminal. it has scrolling action and refreshes when each cycle is done to get the latest news.
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while true;do n="$(curl -s http://news.yahoo.com/rss/|sed 's/</\n/g'|grep "title>"|sed -e '/^\// d' -e 's/title>/---------- /g' -e '1,3d'|tr '\n' ' ')";for i in $(eval echo {0..${#n}});do echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;0H${n:$i:$COLUMNS}\e[u";sleep .15;done;done &

SQUIIDUX · 2012-11-17 23:56:17 20
Put a console clock in top right corner

This puts a clock in the top right of the terminal. This version doesn't use tput, but uses escape codes
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while true; do echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;$((COLUMNS-27))H$(date)\e[u"; sleep 1; done &

SQUIIDUX · 2012-11-11 02:16:21 19
echo unicode characters
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echo -e \\u2620

SQUIIDUX · 2012-10-28 00:29:27 19
Take aWebcam Picture When the Mouse Moves

This takes a webcam picture every everytime the mouse is moved (waits 10 seconds between checking for movement) and stores the picture wherever you want it. Ideas: Use in conjunction with a dropbox type application to see who is using your computer Use /dev/input/mice if /dev/input/mouse* doesn't work Use the bones of this to make a simple screensaver
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while true; do sudo cat /dev/input/mouse0|read -n1;streamer -q -o /tmp/cam.jpeg -s 640x480 > /dev/null 2>&1; sleep 10;done

SQUIIDUX · 2012-04-22 01:51:30 5
reverse order of file
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tac $FILETOREVERSE

SQUIIDUX · 2011-05-30 17:54:27 4
Get NFL/MLB Scores/Time

change the nfl in the url to mlb or nba to get those score/times as well Show Sample Output
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```
Thursday : November 11
BAL 21 ATL 26 : Final
Sunday : November 14
DET 12 BUF 14 : Final
MIN 13 CHI 27 : Final
NYJ 26 CLE 20 : F/OT
CIN 17 IND 23 : Final
TEN 17 MIA 29 : Final
CAR 16 TB 31 : Final
HOU 24 JAC 31 : Final
KC 29 DEN 49 : Final
DAL 33 NYG 20 : Final
SEA 36 ARI 18 : Final
STL 20 SF 23 : F/OT
NE at PIT 8:20 PM : NBC
Monday : November 15
PHI at WSH 8:30 PM : ESPN
```
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w3m -no-cookie http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/scoreboard?|sed 's/ Final/ : Final/g'|sed 's/ F\// : F\//g'|sed 's/, / : /g'|grep -i ':'

SQUIIDUX · 2010-11-15 01:18:19 28
See The MAN page for the last command
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man !!

SQUIIDUX · 2010-08-14 14:09:31 4

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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Don't save commands in bash history (only for current session)

Only from a remote machine: Only access to the server will be logged, but not the command. The same way, you can run any command without loggin it to history. ssh user@localhost will be registered in the history as well, and it's not usable.

Vectorize xkcd strips

Uses ImageMagick and potrace to vectorize the input image, with parameters optimized for xkcd-like pictures.

Have subversion ignore a file pattern in a directory

If you don't want to commit files to subversion, and don't want those file to show up when doing an "svn stat", this command is what you need

Copy all files. All normal files, all hidden files and all files starting with - (minus).

./* is for copying files starting with - .[!.]* is for copying hidden files and avoiding copying files from the parent directory. ..?* is for copying files starting with .. (avoids the directory ..) /path/to/dir the path to the directory where the files should be copied Can also be used as a script. Input argument is /path/to/dir in tcsh, replace .[!.]* with .[^.]*

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Compute running average for a column of numbers

This is an on-line algorithm for calculating the mean value for numbers in a column. Also known as "running average" or "moving average".

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"

get total of inodes of root partition

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

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" }

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