Commands by ichbins

Commands by ichbins (12)

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Have a smile

Outputs utf-8 smileys Show Sample Output
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```
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```
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printf "$(awk 'BEGIN{c=127;while(c++<191){printf("\xf0\x9f\x98\\%s",sprintf("%o",c));}}')"

ichbins · 2022-04-06 12:10:37 1049
Quickly add a new user to all groups the default user is in

an alternative to this one with only 2 processes https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/25844/quickly-add-a-new-user-to-all-groups-the-default-user-is-in
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awk -F: '/^.+user1/{print $1}' /etc/group | xargs -n1 sudo adduser user2

ichbins · 2022-03-18 11:32:47 914
Shows picture exif GPS info if any and converts coords to a decimal degree number

This oneliner uses Imagemagic's identify utility to show the exif GPS information of an image an also converts Grad/MIn/Sec representation to a decimal degree number Show Sample Output
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```
    exif:GPSAltitude: 1665000/1000
    exif:GPSAltitudeRef: 0
    exif:GPSDateStamp: 2017:10:25
    exif:GPSInfo: 3166
    exif:GPSLatitude: 47/1, 39/1, 403802/10000  (47.661217)
    exif:GPSLatitudeRef: N
    exif:GPSLongitude: 11/1, 47/1, 374272/10000  (11.793730)
    exif:GPSLongitudeRef: E
    exif:GPSMapDatum: WGS-84
    exif:GPSProcessingMethod: ASCII
    exif:GPSTimeStamp: 10/1, 32/1, 53/1
    exif:GPSVersionID: 2, 2, 0, 0
```
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identify -verbose my_image.jpg | awk 'function cf(i){split(i,a,"/");if(length(a)==2){return a[1]/a[2]}else{return a[1]}}/GPS/{if($1~/GPSLatitude:|GPSLongitude:/){s=$0;gsub(/,/,"",$0);printf("%s (%f)\n", s, $2+cf($3)/60+cf($4)/3600)}else{print}}'

ichbins · 2022-02-20 10:17:49 474
Generates a TV noise alike output in the terminal

Generates a TV noise alike output in the terminal. Can be combined with https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/9728/make-some-powerful-pink-noise
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while true;do printf "$(awk -v c="$(tput cols)" -v s="$RANDOM" 'BEGIN{srand(s);while(--c>=0){printf("\xe2\x96\\%s",sprintf("%o",150+int(10*rand())));}}')";done

ichbins · 2020-05-08 09:55:36 371
Create a PNG screenshot of Rigol Ultravision scopes attached per LAN

Scope should have the Rigol Ultravision Technology otherwise it won't accept the command. ImageMagic is required. Scope sends a 1.1M BMP file and converted to PNG it's only 18-20K
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echo "display:data?" | nc "$scope_ip_address" 5555 | dd bs=1 skip=11 2>/dev/null | convert bmp:- out_file.png

ichbins · 2015-06-27 06:43:43 11
Shows cpu load in percent

This version is precise and requires one second to collect statistics. Check sample output for a more generic version and also a remote computer invocation variant. It doesn't work with the busybox version of the 'top' command but can be adjusted Show Sample Output
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```
# more generic variant without gensub function
top -bn2|awk -F, '/Cpu/{if (NR>4){print $4}}'|awk -F" id" '{print 100-$1}'

# show cpu load on a remote machine
ssh root@192.168.1.200 'top -bn2|awk -F, '\''/Cpu/{if (NR>4){print $4}}'\''|awk -F" id" '\''{print 100-$1}'\'
```
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top -bn2|awk -F, '/Cpu/{if (NR>4){print 100-gensub(/.([^ ]+).*/,"\\1","g",$4)}}'

ichbins · 2014-04-18 17:48:05 7
Stores current working directory before exit and restores it on a new bash start

this command will add the following two lines into the ~/.bash_aliases: alias exit='pwd > ~/.lastdir;exit' [ -n "$(cat .lastdir 2>/dev/null)" ] && cd "$(cat .lastdir)" or redirect it to the ~/.bashrc if you like Donno, I find it usefull. You may also define an alias for 'cd ~' like - alias cdh='cd ~'
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echo -e 'alias exit='\''pwd > ~/.lastdir;exit'\''\n[ -n "$(cat .lastdir 2>/dev/null)" ] && cd "$(cat .lastdir)"' >> ~/.bash_aliases

ichbins · 2014-01-28 18:02:04 7
A bash timer

Starts and shows a timer. banner command is a part of the sysvbanner package. Instead of the banner an echo or figlet commands could be used. Stop the timer with Ctrl-C and elapsed time will be shown as the result. Show Sample Output
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```
  ###     ###             ###    #####           #####  #
 #   #   #   #           #   #  #     #         #     # #    #
# #   # # #   #         # #   #       #               # #    #
#  #  # #  #  #         #  #  #  #####           #####  #######
#   # # #   # #   ###   #   # # #         ###         #      #
 #   #   #   #    ###    #   #  #         ###   #     #      #
  ###     ###     ###     ###   #######   ###    #####       #
```
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alias timer='export ts=$(date +%s);p='\''$(date -u -d @"$(($(date +%s)-$ts))" +"%H.%M.%S")'\'';watch -n 1 -t banner $p;eval "echo $p"'

ichbins · 2013-08-24 16:18:45 14
Redirecting bash output into any X Window

bash output is inserted into the clipboard, then mousepad is started and the clipboard content is pasted. xsel and xdotool needs to be installed. Instead of the mousepad any other editor can be used. I've successfully tested the Sublime Text Editor and it opens a new tab for each new paste. Check Sample output for a usage example. This command is originated from here - http://goo.gl/0q9UT4 Show Sample Output
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```
dpkg -l | 2edit
```
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alias 2edit='xsel -b;n=pipe$RANDOM;xdotool exec --terminator -- mousepad $n -- search --sync --onlyvisible --name $n key --window %1 ctrl+v'

ichbins · 2013-08-11 06:18:31 11
Unite pdf files

pdfunite is a part of the poppler-utils. poppler-utils package is only 150KB. The alternative - pdftk package is 14MB! Install poppler-utils if you need simple pdf operation commands like unite, separate, info, text/html conversions
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pdfunite 1.pdf 2.pdf united.pdf

ichbins · 2013-07-09 11:44:58 11
Tail a log-file over the network

it also works with the chrome browser. The alternative with tail and nc doesn't
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socat -u FILE:/var/log/syslog,ignoreeof TCP4-LISTEN:12345,fork,reuseaddr

ichbins · 2013-02-18 13:36:01 4
Displays mpd playing status in the terminal first raw

Actually this is a shorter version that fits the 255 chars limit of this resource. The full version shows status in the right top corner: alias mpdd='while sleep 1; do _r=$(awk '\''BEGIN{FS=": "}/^Artist:/{r=r""$2};/^Title:/{r=r" - "$2};/^time:/{r=$2" "r};/^state: play/{f=1}END{if(f==1){print r}}'\'' <(mpc status;mpc currentsong));_l=${#_r};[ $_l -eq 0 ] && continue;[ -z "$_p" ] && _p=$_l;echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;${_p}H\e[K\e[u";_p=$((COLUMNS - _l));echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;${_p}H\e[K\e[0;44m\e[1;33m${_r}\e[0m\e[u";done &' mpc is defined like this: function mpc() { echo "$*" | nc 192.168.1.1 6600 } Show Sample Output
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```
132:245 Front 242 - 7Rain [GHost]
```
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while sleep 1; do (mpc status;mpc currentsong)|awk 'BEGIN{FS=": "}/^Artist:/{r=r""$2};/^Title:/{r=r" - "$2};/^time:/{r=$2" "r};/^state: play/{f=1}END{if(f==1){print r}}'|echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;0H\e[K\e[0;44m\e[1;33m$(cat -)\e[0m\e[u";done &

ichbins · 2012-12-24 18:03:29 9

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Run a bash script in debug mode, show output and save it on a file

recurisvely md5 all files in a tree

Found this little gem here: http://info.michael-simons.eu/2008/10/25/recursively-md5sum-all-files-in-a-directory-tree/

list the top 15 folders by decreasing size in MB

Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed

Remove ( color / special / escape / ANSI ) codes, from text, with sed Credit to the original folks who I've copied this command from. The diff here is: Theirs: [m|K] Theirs is supposed to remove \E[NUMBERS;NUMBERS[m OR K] This statement is incorrect in 2 ways. 1. The letters m and K are two of more than 20+ possible letters that can end these sequences. 2. Inside []'s , OR is already assumed, so they are also looking for sequences ending with | which is not correct. This : [a-zA-Z] This resolves the "OR" issue noted above, and takes care of all sequences, as they all end with a lower or upper cased letter. This ensures 100% of any escape code 'mess' is removed.

tail, with specific pattern colored

Help shell find freshly installed applications (re: PATH)

Immediately after installing things into your PATH (e.g. under /usr/bin), currently open shells cannot find them ("zsh: command not found"). Use rehash to get the shell to rescan available executables.

Make alias pemanent fast

Simple function to permanently add an alias to your profile. Tested on bash and Ksh, bash version above. Here is the ksh version: PERMA () { print "$@" >> ~/.profile; } Sample usage: PERMA alias la='ls -a'

grep binary (hexadecimal) patterns

-P activates the Perl regular expression mode.

rename files according to file with colums of corresponding names

Maybe simpler, but again, don't know how it will work with space in filename.

Get full directory path of a script regardless of where it is run from

Also resolves symlinks, showing the full path of the link target

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