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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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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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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 3
Send an http HEAD request w/curl
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curl -i -X HEAD http://localhost/

ethanmiller · 2009-03-25 17:34:39 2

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Are the two lines anagrams?

This is just a slight alternative that wraps all of #7917 in a function that can be executed

Makes you look busy

This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim. Drop this in your .bash_aliases and make sure that file is initialized in your .bashrc.

record the input of your sound card into ogg file

save the input into a ogg file

revert a file with svn

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

suspend to ram without root

$dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

Compare a remote file with a local file

This method does not transfer the contents of the entire file, instead it computes a md5 sum of the file on each end so that large files can be compared without transferring them across the net.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Check difference between two file directories recursively

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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