Commands by arcanis

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Sudo like a sir

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```
$> can(){ shift 2; sudo "$@"; }
$> can i haz ls -la /root
. .. .bashrc
$> 
```
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can(){ shift 2; sudo "$@"; }

arcanis · 2012-06-22 13:23:57 3
Extract every parted-files which had the same password

Extract in the current directory the content of all parted archives. Use the same password for each one.
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find . -name '*.part1.rar' -exec unrar e \{\} -pPASSWORD \;

arcanis · 2010-12-01 10:21:15 0
recursive remove all htm files
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find . -type f -name '*.htm' -delete

arcanis · 2010-11-25 12:51:45 0

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the "i" controls case sensitiveness. It's slightly inefficient since it uselessly renames .jpg to .jpg, but that's more than compensated by launching only one process instead of two, besides being shorter to write.

Cleanly manage tempfiles in scripts

Cleanly create tempfiles using mktemp and remove them using traps instead of removing them in the end of the script. This way, you make sure the tempfiles are removed properly even if the script is killed or interrupted. For a user script in KDE4, you can set TMPROOT using : $ TMPROOT=$(kde4-config --path tmp)

Unzip and untar a *.tar.gz file in one go to a specific directory

A *.tar.gz file needs to be unzipped & then untarred. Previously I might have unzipped first with $gunzip -d file.tar.gz and then untarred the result with $tar -xvf file.tar (Options are extract, verbose, file) Using the -z (decompress) option on tar avoids the use of gzip (or gunzip) first. Additionally the -C option will specify the directory to extract to.

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