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run shell with your commandlinefu.com's favourites as bash_history

This makes your commandlinefu.com's favorites appear as most recent commands in your history.
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(cat ~/.bash_history;U='curl -s www.commandlinefu.com';$U/users/signin -c/tmp/.c -d'username=<USER>&password=<PASS>&submit=1'|$U/commands/favourites/json -b/tmp/.c|grep -Po 'nd":.*?[^\\]",'|sed -re 's/.*":"(.*)",/\1/g')>~/.h;HISTFILE=~/.h bash --login

xenomuta · 2012-08-17 12:31:51 0
Show a random oneliner from commandlinefu.com

This will parse a random command json entry from http://commandlinefu.com A must have in your .bash_profile to learn new shell goodies at login!!!
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echo -e "`curl -sL http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random/json|sed -re 's/.*,"command":"(.*)","summary":"([^"]+).*/\\x1b[1;32m\2\\n\\n\\x1b[1;33m\1\\x1b[0m/g'`\n"

xenomuta · 2012-08-17 11:47:20 0
Output centralized text on command line

Echoes text horizontally centralized based on screen width
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centralized(){ L=`echo -n $*|wc -c`; echo -e "\x1b[$[ ($COLUMNS / 2) - ($L / 2) ]C$*"; }

xenomuta · 2012-08-16 18:19:26 0

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Start COMMAND, and kill it if still running after 5 seconds

create new branch from stashed changes

from http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Stashing Useful for when stash cannot be applied to current branch

Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

Capitalize the first letter of every word

Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.

Send email with curl and gmail

Required curl version >=7.21; using ~/.netrc for authorization

list files recursively by size

Find running binary executables that were not installed using dpkg

This helped me find a botnet that had made into my system. Of course, this is not a foolproof or guarantied way to find all of them or even most of them. But it helped me find it.

Typing the current date ( or any string ) via a shortcut as if the keys had been actually typed with the hardware keyboard in any application.

That works in all softs, CLI or GUI... I don't want to waste time to all the time typing the same stuff . So, I have that command in my window manager shortcuts ( meta+l ). All the window managers have editable shortcuts AFAIK. If not, or you don't want to use it that way, you can easily use the xbindkeys soft. I you're using kde4, you can run : $ systemsettings then open "inputs actions" and create a new shortcut. For Gnome take a look there : http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-keyboard-shortcuts-in-gnome/ A more advanced one, with strings and newlines : $ xvkbd -xsendevent -text "---8

SVN Command line branch merge

This will merge all of the changes from {rev_num} to head on the branch to the current working directory

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