Commands tagged quotes (5)

  • Remove all quotes from csv

    I always forget this one and find all kinds of complex solutions on google. Also works great while piping data. ex. 'cat data | process-data | tr -d "\"" > processed-data-without-quotes'


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    tr -d "\"" < infile.csv > noquotes.csv
    UnklAdM · 2015-09-11 23:41:48 1
  • Random quote from Borat -- no html parsing

    Turns out smacie.com has a text file containing every single one of the borat quotes, each one on a newline. This makes it very convenient, as this can be done without any sed-parsing, and uses less bandwitdth! Note that borate quotes are quite offensive, much more so than "fortunes-off"! Show Sample Output


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    curl -s "http://smacie.com/randomizer/borat.txt" | shuf -n 1 -
    benjabean1 · 2014-12-16 04:18:48 0
  • Display a quote of the day in notification bubble

    Just pulls a quote for each day and displays it in a notification bubble... or you can change it a bit and just have it run in the terminal wget -q -O "quote" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_the_day;echo "Quote of the Day";cat quote | grep '&ldquo;\|/author/show' | sed -e 's/<[a-zA-Z\/][^>]*>//g' | sed 's/&ldquo;//g' | sed 's/&rdquo;//g'; rm -f quote Show Sample Output


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    wget -q -O "quote" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_the_day;notify-send "$(echo "Quote of the Day";cat quote | grep '&ldquo;\|/author/show' | sed -e 's/<[a-zA-Z\/][^>]*>//g' | sed 's/&ldquo;//g' | sed 's/&rdquo;//g')"; rm -f quote
    nowhereman88 · 2014-06-15 03:17:19 0
  • Random quote from Borat

    I improved a bit on the original by only using sed and extracting the quote with a matching group. Use -nE for sed on Mac OSX Use -nr for sed on Linux. Warning! The quotes from Borat are definitely offensive. Show Sample Output


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    curl -s http://smacie.com/randomizer/borat.html | sed -nE "s# *<td valign=\"top\"><big><big><big><font face=\"Comic Sans MS\">(.*)</font></big></big></big></td>#\1#p"
    phymata · 2012-07-18 21:31:43 0
  • delete multiple files with spaces in filenames (with confirmation)

    ls -Q will show the filenames in quotes. xargs -p rm will print all the filenames piped from ls -Q and ask for confirmation before deleting the files. without the -Q switch, if we have spaces in names, then the files won't be deleted. Show Sample Output


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    ls -Q * | xargs -p rm
    temp_reg · 2010-01-27 02:46:49 6

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