Commands by thoth

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save your current environment as a bunch of defaults
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env | sed 's/$.*$=$.*$/: ${\1:="\2"}/' > mydefaults.bash

thoth · 2019-04-22 21:54:32 0
grant me all the groups

NSFW - use this on personal laptops where you want your personal user to have all the groups Show Sample Output
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```
Adding user user1 to group lpadmin
.....all the groups
```
0

cut -f1 -d: /etc/group|xargs -n1 -I{} gpasswd -a $USERNAME {}

thoth · 2016-01-08 18:03:36 0
Count the number of unique colors there are in a websites css folder

Count the number of unique colors there are in a websites css folder (136 is way too many imho time to get people stick to a color scheme) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
grep -r -h -o 'color: #.*' css/*|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|wc -l
136
```
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grep -r -h -o 'color: #.*' css/*|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|wc -l

thoth · 2015-12-29 07:22:44 0

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Watch the progress of 'dd'

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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

String to binary

Cool but useless.

url shortner using google's shortner api

First get a api key for google url shortner from here https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/ Then replace the API_KEY in the command

Find class in jar

disable caps lock

a quick one-line way to disable caps lock while running X.

delete command line last word

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