Commands by chilicuil

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List dot-files and dirs, but not . or ..

find . -maxdepth 1 -iname ".*" | awk 'NR >= 2' Can be used to list only dotfiles without . nor .. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
find . -maxdepth 1 -iname "*" | awk 'NR >= 2'
./.goobook_cache
./.todo
./tmp_img
./.gconfd
./.viminfs.tmp
./.esd_auth
./.bashrc
./.xsession
./violin.mp4
./.aliases
./.asadminpass
```
-3

find directory -maxdepth 1 -iname "*" | awk 'NR >= 2'

chilicuil · 2014-04-01 00:09:12 7
Print a file to a LPD server

You don't need cups =) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
rlpr: warning: cannot bind to privileged port: lpd may reject
rlpr: info: 1 file spooled to lp@192.168.1.11 (proxy (none))
```
1

rlpr -h -Plp -HIP_LPD_SERVER_HERE file.ps

chilicuil · 2011-12-02 00:51:16 6
Set volume to a mp3 file
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

ffmpeg -i foo.mp3 -vol 20 -acodec libmp3lame bar.mp3

chilicuil · 2010-11-08 08:50:10 4
Encode mkv file to ogg+h264+mkv
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

ffmpeg -i initial.mkv -acodec libvorbis -ab 128k -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre max -crf 22 -threads 0 final.mkv

chilicuil · 2010-11-08 08:47:01 5
Encode a hq video +10mb/min to an 1mb/min suitable for youtube

http://tinyurl.com/yj7wgqe
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

ffmpeg -i in.mkv -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre max -crf 22 -threads 0 out.mp4

chilicuil · 2010-11-08 05:37:00 4
Disable WoL on eth0
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol d

chilicuil · 2010-07-31 20:21:20 4

Dump a web page

Useful to browse dangerous web sites. Show Sample Output

curl -s http://google.com | hexdump -C|less

chilicuil · 2010-02-02 18:54:49 5

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Ignore a directory in SVN, permanently

This command allow you to ignore certain directories on SVN commands, like SVN STATUS. It is sad see a lot of temporary files from templates_c for each "svn status", no? ;-) This works only on directories under revision control.

rsync + find

rsync from source to dest all between >30

Mirror a directory structure from websites with an Apache-generated file indexes

wget/curl/friends are not good with mirroring files off websites, especially those with Apache-generated directory listings. These tools endlessly waste time downloading useless index HTML pages. lftp's mirror command does a better job without the mess.

delete all leading and trailing whitespace from each line in file

Check if a process is running

Send signal 0 to the process. The return status ($?) can be used to determine if the process is running. 0 if it is, non-zero otherwise.

Rename files in batch

extract column from csv file

extracts the 5th column using the delimiter ','

Define shell variable HISTIGNORE so that comments (lines starting with #) appear in shell history

I was surprised to find that with RedHat bash, I could not find any comment lines (begining with #) in my bash shell history. Surprised because in Mageia Linux this works. It turns out that RedHat's bash will keep comment lines if in my .bashrc, I define: export HISTIGNORE=' cd "`*: PROMPT_COMMAND=?*?' Why have comment lines in shell history? It's a handy and convenient way to make proto-commands (to be completed later) and for storing brief text data that is searchable in shell history.

Url Encode

It only encodes non-Basic-ASCII chars, as they are the only ones not well readed by UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 (latin-1). It converts all * C3 X (some latin symbols like ASCII-extended ones) and * C2 X (some punctuation symbols like inverted exclamation) ...UTF-8 double byte symbols to escaped form that every parser understands to form the URLs. I didn't encode spaces and the rest of basic punctuation, but supposedly, space and others are coded as \x20, for example, in UTF-8, latin-1 and Windows-cp1252.... so its read perfectly. Please feel free to correct, the application to which I designe that function works as expected with my assumption. Note: I specify a w=999, I didn't find a flag to put unlimited value. I just suppose very improbable surpass the de-facto 255 (* 3 byte max) = 765 bytes length of URL

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"

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