Commands by ethanmiller

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Revert all modified files in an SVN repo
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svn st | grep -e '^M' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn revert

ethanmiller · 2010-08-11 14:24:05 0
Replace spaces in filenames with underscores

I realize there's a few of these out there, but none exactly in this form, which seems the cleanest to me
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9

for f in *;do mv "$f" "${f// /_}";done

ethanmiller · 2010-01-29 19:57:16 2
Watch postgresql calls from your application on localhost

It's certainly not nicely formatted SQL, but you can see the SQL in there...
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1

sudo tcpdump -nnvvXSs 1514 -i lo0 dst port 5432

ethanmiller · 2009-12-18 17:12:44 1
Email HTML content

Note, this works because smtp is running
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mailx bar@foo.com -s "HTML Hello" -a "Content-Type: text/html" < body.htm

ethanmiller · 2009-05-19 04:49:26 0
Recursively change permissions on files, leave directories alone.
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find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

ethanmiller · 2009-04-22 21:14:36 9
Browse shared folder when you're the only Linux user

Under Ubuntu smbclient is part of the samba package. With the version I use (3.0.28a) cd-ing into folders with spaces in the name is a drag. You have to put the folder name in quotes: smb: \Shared\> cd "Marketing and PR"
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smbclient -U userbob //10.1.1.75/Shared

ethanmiller · 2009-04-22 19:58:51 1
Send an http HEAD request w/curl
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0

curl -i -X HEAD http://localhost/

ethanmiller · 2009-03-25 17:34:39 2

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