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Sometimes I need to create a directory of files to operate on to test out some commandlinefu I am cooking up. The main thing is the range ({1..N}) expansion.
cp options:
-p will preserve the file mode, ownership, and timestamps
-r will copy files recursively
also, if you want to keep symlinks in addition to the above: use the -a/--archive option
In this case searches for where .desktop files are stored. The resulted is a sorted list of the top directories containing such files.
I often find the need to number enumerations and other lists when programming. With this command, create a new file called 'inputfile' with the text you want to number. Paste the contents of 'outputfile' back into your source file and fix the tabbing if necessary. You can also change this to output hex numbering by changing the "%02d" to "%02x". If you need to start at 0 replace "NR" with "NR-1". I adapted this from http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/20/easily-add-line-numbers-to-a-text-file/.
The same as the other two alternatives, but now less forking! Instead of using '\;' to mark the end of an -exec command in GNU find, you can simply use '+' and it'll run the command only once with all the files as arguments.
This has two benefits over the xargs version: it's easier to read and spaces in the filesnames work automatically (no -print0). [Oh, and there's one less fork, if you care about such things. But, then again, one is equal to zero for sufficiently large values of zero.]
This is the THIRD in a set of five commands. See my other commands for the previous two.
This step creates the oauth 1.0 token as explained in http://oauth.net/core/1.0/
The token is required for a Twitter filtered stream feed (and almost all Twitter API calls)
This token is simply an encrypted version of your base string. The encryption key used is your hmac.
The last part of the command scans the Base64 token string for '+', '/', and '=' characters and converts them to percentage-hex escape codes. (URI-escapeing). This is also a good example of where the $() syntax of Bash command substitution fails, while the backtick form ` works - the right parenthesis in the case statement causes a syntax error if you try to use the $() syntax here.
See my previous two commands step1 and step2 to see how the base string variable $b and hmac variable $hmac are generated.
`aria2c` (from the aria2 project) allows. Change -s 4 to an arbitrary number of segments to control the number of concurrent connections. It is also possible to provide multiple URLs to the same content (potentially over multiple protocols) to download the file concurrently from multiple hosts.
