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allows you to use floating point operations in shell scripts
the output of svn log is annoying to grep, since it spreads the useful info over multiple lines. This compacts the output down to one line so eg you can grep for a comment and see the rev, date & committer straight away.
Updated: MUCH shorter, easier to remember. Now it just replaces newlines with spaces, except on '---' lines.
One of my favorite ways to impress newbies (and old hats) to the power of the shell, is to give them an incredibly colorful and amazing version of the top command that runs once upon login, just like running fortune on login. It's pretty sweet believe me, just add this one-liner to your ~/.bash_profile -- and of course you can set the height to be anything, from 1 line to 1000!
$ G=$(stty -g);stty rows $((${LINES:-50}/2));top -n1; stty $G;unset G
Doesn't take more than the below toprc file I've added below, and you get all 4 top windows showing output at the same time.. each with a different color scheme, and each showing different info. Each window would normally take up 1/4th of your screen when run like that - TOP is designed as a full screen program. But here's where you might learn something new today on this great site.. By using the stty command to change the terminals internal understanding of the size of your terminal window, you force top to also think that way as well.
# save the correct settings to G var.
$ G=$(stty -g)
# change the number of rows to half the actual amount, or 50 otherwise
$ stty rows $((${LINES:-50}/2))
# run top non-interactively for 1 second, the output stays on the screen (half at least)
$ top -n1
# reset the terminal back to the correct values, and clean up after yourself
$ stty $G;unset G
This trick from my [ http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html bash_profile ], though the online version will be updated soon. Just think what else you could run like this!
Note 1: I had to edit the toprc file out due to this site can't handle that (uploads/including code). So you can grab it from [ http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash-power-prompt.html my site ]
Note 2: I had to come back and edit again because the links weren't being correctly parsed
Fetches the world population JSON data from the US census and parses it uses jshon
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.
Record audio to an MP3 file via ALSA. Adjust -i argument according to arecord -l output.
A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.
mixing tabs and spaces for indentation in python would confuse the python interpreter, to avoid that, check if the file has any tab based indentation.
"^V" => denotes press control + v and press tab within quotes.
$ cat improper_indent.py
class Tux(object):
print "Hello world.."
$ grep " " improper_indent.py
print "Hello world.."
Returns a JSON object, by connecting to the 'test' endpoint of the Twitter API. Simplest way to check if you can connect to Twitter. Output also available in XML, use '/help/test.xml' for that
