Commands by fraktil

Commands by fraktil (4)

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Remote Screenshot

Like the given command, but combines _DISPLAY=":0.0"_ with _export DISPLAY_ to get _export DISPLAY=":0.0"_ and only imports if DISPLAY is set successfully.
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export DISPLAY=":0.0" && import -window root screenshot.png

fraktil · 2010-02-17 12:13:49 3
Insert the last argument of the previous command
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<ALT> .

fraktil · 2010-01-28 03:33:31 5
Remove newlines from output

Pipe any output to "grep ." and blank lines will not be printed.
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cat filename | grep .

fraktil · 2009-08-09 01:00:59 4
A fun thing to do with ram is actually open it up and take a peek. This command will show you all the string (plain text) values in ram
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strings /dev/mem|less

fraktil · 2009-08-09 00:56:06 7

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The hyphen tells vim to open from STDOUT - saves having to create temporary files.

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