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 0

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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Compress a file or directory keeping the owner and permissions

Find all file extension in current dir.

rsync should continue even if connection lost

Manage partial uploads using append option.

Print github url for the current url

Works for repos cloned via ssh or https.

Erase empty files

The command find search commands with size zero and erase them.

Convert a date to timestamp

Simple way to get a timestamp from a date

HTTP GET request on wireshark remotly

Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.

Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

Identify long lines in a file

This command displays a list of lines that are longer than 72 characters. I use this command to identify those lines in my scripts and cut them short the way I like it.

Stream (almost) any music track in mplayer

Just give it an artist and/or song at the end of the command as shown.

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