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Succeed or fail randomly (Schr?dinger's code)

Can be used to test error handling Show Sample Output
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```
$ for i in seq 1 $(seq 4); do test $((RANDOM%2)) -eq 0; echo $?; done
1
0
1
1
0
1
```
-1

test $((RANDOM%2)) -eq 0

l0b0 · 2011-06-30 12:44:51 8
Rsync files with spaces

Using the double dash before the source and target makes the command work fine with weird filenames.
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3

rsync [options] -- * target

l0b0 · 2010-11-18 23:09:17 8
Title Case Files

Anyone know how to avoid title casing some words, like 'to', 'of', 'that', etc.?
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0

rename 's/(^|[\s\[\]_-])([a-z])/$1\u$2/g' *

l0b0 · 2010-08-22 11:26:20 4
Clean upgrade of Ubuntu

Gets you the latest of everything, and removes any remaining junk. The "sh -c" part is so that you'll only run a single sh command, so you won't get asked more than once for the password.
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-7

sudo sh -c "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade;apt-get autoremove;apt-get autoclean"

l0b0 · 2010-08-13 16:12:18 9
Get first Git commit hash

Can anyone make a shorter one? This doesn't work: git log --reverse -1 --format=%H Show Sample Output
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```
c7a4ef6756568cbb795481b82cebea72926a2ab5
```
0

git log --format=%H | tail -1

l0b0 · 2010-07-20 08:12:05 14

Delicious search with human readable output

You can install filterous with sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev; sudo easy_install -U filterous Show Sample Output

filterous -dntb --tag Bash < bookmarks.xml

l0b0 · 2010-07-07 07:42:11 6

git pull all repos
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find ~ -maxdepth 2 -name .git -print | while read repo; do cd $(dirname $repo); git pull; done

l0b0 · 2010-04-27 08:51:52 6

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Recursively remove all files in a CVS directory

This will search all directories and ignore the CVS ones. Then it will search all files in the resulting directories and act on them.

Show memory stats on Nexenta/Solaris

[git] Output remote origin from within a local repository

Great way to quickly grasp if a locally cloned repository originates from e.g. github or elsewhere.

Insert the last argument of the previous command

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

Create a progress dialog with custom title and text using zenity.

Create md5sum of files under the current dir excluding some directories

Useful if you want get all the md5sum of files but you want exclude some directories. If your list of files is short you can make in one command as follow: $ find . -type d $ -name DIR1 -o -name DIR2 $ -prune -o -type f -exec md5sum {} \; Alternatively you can specify a different command to be executed on the resulting files.

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