splits a postscript file into multiple postscript files. for each page of the input file one output file will be generated. The files will be numbered for example 1_orig.ps 2_orig.ps ... The psselect commad is part of the psutils package
Output the html from xkcd's index.html, filter out the html tags, and then view it in gwenview. Show Sample Output
Wgets "whatismyip" from checkip.dyndns.org and filters out the actual IP-adress. Usefull when you quickly need to find the outward facting IP-address of your current location. Show Sample Output
Tail all logs that are opened by all java processes. This is helpful when you are on a new environment and you do not know where the logs are located. Instead of java you can put any process name. This command does work only for Linux.
The list of all log files opened by java process:
sudo ls -l $(eval echo "/proc/{$(echo $(pgrep java)|sed 's/ /,/')}/fd/")|grep log|sed 's/[^/]* //g'
This is an easy way to quickly get a status for a device in multipath on SLES systems, as long as the server is configured based on Novell's standards, where multipathed disks are referred to by /dev/disk/by-... tree. Make sure to replace name_of_vg with your Volume Group name.
Usage:
get-ipsw device-name generation-string firmware-version
For example:
get-ipsw iPod 2,1 4.0
Different generation strings:
iPhone 3G: iPhone 1,2
iPhone 3GS: iPhone 2,1
iPod touch 2G: iPod 2,1
iPod touch 3G: iPod 3,1
This can be used with idevicerestore (I haven't tried it though).
http://github.com/posixninja/idevicerestore
Based on:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expected-momentarily-quick-terminal-ti/
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this is great if you loose you ssh connection (with out a screen session) or are working on a laptop with a bad battery, or just a power outage. Modifications: you may not need the -print; the mtime is last modified time in days
The thunderbird message datastores get corrupt some times causing random failures, compaction to fail and general suck in thunderbird. Removing them causes thunderbird to rebuild the indexes and makes things quick again.
with grep for em:name rather than name, you will get much better result. Show Sample Output
-r to use extended regex ^ begin line | alternative get 100 or 0-9 one or two times Show Sample Output
It will parse the unique_id stanza in ODM database to get the DMX id. Show Sample Output
Removes the given string from all files under the given path - in this case the path given is "." This demonstrates the characters that must be escaped for the grep and sed commands to do their work correctly. Very handy for fixing hacked html files.
Will create a graph of the results for "x bottles of beer on the wall". Requires Gnuplot. Inspired by an xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/715/ For sample output see: http://tr.im/xbottlesofbeer Show Sample Output
You WILL have problems if the files have the same name.
Use cases: consolidate music library and unify photos (especially if your camera separates images by dates).
After running the command and verifying if there was no name issues, you can use
ls -d */ | sed -e 's/^/\"/g' -e 's/$/\"/g' | xargs rm -r
to remove now empty subdirectories.
Get Google Reader unread count from the command line.
You'll have to define your auth token with $auth
Or use:
curl -s -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$(curl -sd "Email=$email&Passwd=$password&service=reader" https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin | grep Auth | sed 's/Auth=\(.*\)/\1/')" "http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/unread-count?output=json" | tr '{' '\n' | sed 's/.*"count":\([0-9]*\),".*/\1/' | grep -E ^[0-9]+$ | tr '\n' '+' | sed 's/\(.*\)+/\1\n/' | bc
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Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example). Uses a Google API. Show Sample Output
xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
Combines a few repetitive tasks when compiling source code. Especially useful when a hypen in a file-name breaks tab completion. 1.) wget source.tar.gz 2.) tar xzvf source.tar.gz 3.) cd source 4.) ls From there you can run ./configure, make and etc. Show Sample Output
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