Commands by Seebi

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Get the dir listing of an executable without knowing its location

this is the much easier zsh equivalent ...
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

ls -l =gcc

Seebi · 2011-11-15 08:06:25 0

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

atomtitles () { curl --silent $1 | xmlstarlet sel -N atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" -t -m /atom:feed/atom:entry -v atom:title -n}

Seebi · 2010-12-15 11:03:31 3

Backup a file with a date-time stamp

This backup function preserve the file suffix allowing zsh suffix aliases and desktop default actions to work with the backup file too. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
> ls
image.jpg

> buf image.jpg; ls
image.2010-12-14.jpg
```
-3

buf () {oldname=$1; if [ "$oldname" != "" ]; then datepart=$(date +%Y-%m-%d); firstpart=`echo $oldname | cut -d "." -f 1`; newname=`echo $oldname | sed s/$firstpart/$firstpart.$datepart/`; cp -i ${oldname} ${newname}; fi }

Seebi · 2010-12-14 19:58:34 1
Remove Thumbs.db files from folders

An alternative which uses the advanced zsh globbing (pattern matching)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
5

rm -f **/Thumbs.db

Seebi · 2010-08-18 07:09:19 2

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Open Remote Desktop (RDP) from command line having a custom screen size

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list with full path

List the full path of some files. You can add ".*" on the end if you want to display hidden files.

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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"

Invert selection with find.

count processes with status "D" uninterruptible sleep

Calculate N!

Same as the seq/bc solution but without bc.

Make any command read line enabled (on *nix)

Enable readline even if the command line application is not using it.

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" }

Completely wipe all data on your Synology NAS and reinstall DSM. (BE CAREFUL)

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