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This command sequence allows simple setup of (gasp!) password-less SSH logins. Be careful, as if you already have an SSH keypair in your ~/.ssh directory on the local machine, there is a possibility ssh-keygen may overwrite them. ssh-copy-id copies the public key to the remote host and appends it to the remote account's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. When trying ssh, if you used no passphrase for your key, the remote shell appears soon after invoking ssh user@host.
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.
Formats the output from `ioreg` into XML, then parses the XML with `xmllint`'s xpath feature.
Requires perl 5.14 or greater
Prints a log of phonecalls placed from/to an asterisk server, formated into an easily readable table.
You can use partial number/queue matches, or use .* to match everything.
For instance:
$ find . -type f -name '*.wav' -print0 |xargs -0 -P 3 -n 1 flac -V8
will encode all .wav files into FLAC in parallel.
Explanation of xargs flags:
-P [max-procs]: Max number of invocations to run at once. Set to 0 to run all at once [potentially dangerous re: excessive RAM usage].
-n [max-args]: Max number of arguments from the list to send to each invocation.
-0: Stdin is a null-terminated list.
I use xargs to build parallel-processing frameworks into my scripts like the one here: http://pastebin.com/1GvcifYa
a quick one-line way to disable caps lock while running X.
Extract a color palette from a image useful for designers.
Example usage:
$extract-palette myawesomeimage.jpg 4
Where the first argument is the image you want to extract a palette from. The second argument is the number of colors you want.
It may be the case where you want to change the search space. In that case, change the -resize argument to a bigger or smaller result. See the ImageMagick documentation for the -resize argument.