Commands by dabom (5)

  • Generate random valid mac addresses

    Doubt it actually generates valid mac addresses but this version doesn't need any external commands so it runs much faster. Much shorter as well. Show Sample Output


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    h=0123456789ABCDEF;for c in {1..12};do echo -n ${h:$(($RANDOM%16)):1};if [[ $((c%2)) = 0 && $c != 12 ]];then echo -n :;fi;done;echo
    dabom · 2010-12-05 01:35:03 4
  • Create an easy to pronounce shortened URL from CLI

    Shorter regex. Show Sample Output


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    shout() { curl -s "http://shoutkey.com/new?url=${1}" | sed -n "/<h1>/s/.*href=\"\([^\"]*\)\".*/\1/p" ;}
    dabom · 2010-10-05 19:15:50 5
  • Google URL shortener

    Shorter and made into a function. Show Sample Output


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    googl () { curl -s -d "url=${1}" http://goo.gl/api/url | sed -n "s/.*:\"\([^\"]*\).*/\1\n/p" ;}
    dabom · 2010-10-03 02:52:44 4
  • Simple addicting bash game.

    Really bored during class so I made this... Basically, you hold period (or whatever) and hit enter after a second and you need to make the next line of periods the same length as the previous line... My record was 5 lines of the same length. It's best if you do it one handed with your pointer on period and ring on enter.


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    count="1" ; while true ; do read next ; if [[ "$next" = "$last" ]] ; then count=$(($count+1)) ; echo "$count" ; else count="1" ; echo $count ; fi ; last="$next" ; done
    dabom · 2010-03-30 04:02:29 175
  • Facebook Email Scraper

    (Apparently it is too long so I put it in sample output, I hope that is OK.) Run the long command (or put it in your .bashrc) in sample output then run: fbemailscraper YourFBEmail Password Voila! Your contacts' emails will appear. Facebook seems to have gotten rid of the picture encoding of emails and replaced it with a text based version making it easy to scrape! Needs curl to run and it was made pretty quickly so there might be bugs. Show Sample Output


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    fbemailscraper YourFBEmail Password
    dabom · 2010-01-31 00:44:35 48

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Super Speedy Hexadecimal or Octal Calculations and Conversions to Decimal.
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Create a tar archive using xz compression
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