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swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"
This is useful for quickly jumping around branches in a file system, or operating on a parellel file.
This is tested in bash. cd to (substitute in PWD, a for b) where PWD is the bash environmental variable for the "working directory"
This set of commands will rip a dvd title using a 2 pass mencoder xvid encode. It will provide a great quality rip. It will rip as close to 700MB as possible. (note the bitrate of -700000)
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example:
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user@ubuntu:~/workspace/SVN/haystak-repos/trunk/internal/src$ addpi
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Now that directory is in the list of fast access directories.
You can switch to it anytime like this:
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user@ubuntu:~$ pi internal`
user@ubuntu:~/workspace/SVN/haystak-repos/trunk/internal/src$ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please note the backquote ( the symbol that shares its key with ~ in the keyboard )
pi will switch you to that directory.
To see the list of all fast access directories you have to say "cat ~/.pi"
If the dir | wc -l Command not working.
This command
1. SSH into a machine
2. Tunnels VNC port to your local computer ("-L 5900:localhost:5900")
3. Runs a single use vnc server ("x11vnc -safer -localhost -nopw -once -display :0")
4. Goes into the background ("-f")
5. Runs VNC viewer on the local computer connecting to the remote machine via the newly created SSH tunnel ("vinagre localhost:5900")
search the newest *.jpg in the directory an make a copy to newest.jpg. Just change the extension to search other files. This is usefull eg. if your webcam saves all pictures in a folder and you like the put the last one on your homepage. This works even in a directory with 10000 pictures.