Commands by hunterm (8)

  • Random Password Generator (uses all chars, no repeated chars)

    Generates a password using symbols, alpha, and digits. No repeating chars. Show Sample Output


    -4
    for i in {21..79};do echo -e "\x$i";done | tr " " "\n" | shuf | tr -d "\n"
    hunterm · 2011-04-14 01:43:40 3
  • get a random command


    0
    find $(echo "$PATH" | tr ':' ' ') -name "*program*"
    hunterm · 2011-01-07 22:27:44 2
  • RTFM function

    RTFMFTW.


    42
    rtfm() { help $@ || man $@ || $BROWSER "http://www.google.com/search?q=$@"; }
    hunterm · 2011-01-05 02:53:38 2
  • Search Google from the command line and return the first result.

    Yep, now you can finally google from the command line! Here's a readable version "for your pleasure"(c): google() { # search the web using google from the commandline # syntax: google google query=$(echo "$*" | sed "s:%:%25:g;s:&:%26:g;s:+:%2b:g;s:;:%3b:g;s: :+:g") data=$(wget -qO - "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=$query") title=$(echo "$data" | tr '}' '\n' | sed "s/.*,\"titleNoFormatting//;s/\":\"//;s/\",.*//;s/\\u0026/'/g;s/\\\//g;s/#39\;//g;s/'amp;/\&/g" | head -1) url="$(echo "$data" | tr '}' '\n' | sed 's/.*"url":"//;s/".*//' | head -1)" echo "${title}: ${url} | http://www.google.com/search?q=${query}" } Enjoy :) Show Sample Output


    -7
    The command is too big to fit here. :( Look at the description for the command, in readable form! :)
    hunterm · 2011-01-05 02:45:28 1
  • Add together the count of users from the international Linux Counter and the dudalibre.com counter.

    The command was too long for the command box, so here it is: echo $(( `wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'` + `curl --silent http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en | grep users | head -2 | tail -1 | sed 's/.*<strong>//g' | sed 's/<\/strong>.*//g'` )) This took me about an hour to do. It uses wget and curl because, dudalibre.com blocks wget, and wget worked nicely for me. Show Sample Output


    -1
    Check the Description below.
    hunterm · 2010-10-07 04:22:32 0
  • Get the amount of users currently registered at the DudaLibre.com Linux Counter.


    0
    curl --silent http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en | grep users | head -2 | tail -1 | sed 's/.*<strong>//g' | sed 's/<\/strong>.*//g'
    hunterm · 2010-10-07 04:12:45 0
  • Get the amount of currently registered users from i18n.counter.li.org.


    -1
    wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'
    hunterm · 2010-10-07 03:19:17 0
  • View the newest xkcd comic.

    Output the html from xkcd's index.html, filter out the html tags, and then view it in gwenview. Show Sample Output


    -1
    gwenview `wget -O - http://xkcd.com/ | grep 'png' | grep '<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/' | sed s/title=\".*//g | sed 's/.png\"/.png/g' | sed 's/<img src=\"//g'`
    hunterm · 2010-08-24 22:21:51 0

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