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Given a file path, unplug the USB device on which the file is located (the file must be on an USB device !)

You have an external USB drive or key. Apply this command (using the file path of anything on your device) and it will simulate the unplug of this device. If you just want the port, just type : echo $(sudo lshw -businfo | grep -B 1 -m 1 $(df "/path/to/file" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 6-8) | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 5- | tr ":" "-") Show Sample Output
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```
alex@alex-G73Sw:~$ echo $(sudo lshw -businfo | grep -B 1 -m 1 $(df "/media/0AF2108209E826EE/test" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 6-8) | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 5- | tr ":" "-") | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/unbind
2-1.3
```
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echo $(sudo lshw -businfo | grep -B 1 -m 1 $(df "/path/to/file" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 6-8) | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}' | cut -c 5- | tr ":" "-") | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/unbind

tweet78 · 2014-04-06 12:06:29 20
Skip filenames with control characters, a.k.a tab,newline etc
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find . ! -name "$(printf '*[\001-\037\177]*')"

totti · 2011-10-25 17:29:19 6
Slugify: converts strings in any language into Slugs (friendly names to use in URLs and filenames)

Slug the part of an URL which identifies a page using human-readable keywords. Slugs are used to construct friendly URLs (often for permalinks) that are easy to type, descriptive, and easy to remember. Show Sample Output
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```
function slugify() { tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' <<< "$(sed -z -r -e 's~[^[:alnum:]]+~ ~g' -e 's~ (he|here|how|it|she|there|what|when|where|who) s ~ \1 is ~gi' -e 's~^ *~~;s~ *$~~' -e 's~ +~-~g' - <<< " $(iconv -c -t ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE - <<< " $@ " ) ")"; }


# testing special characters and spaces:
slugify " Test: µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝß      and àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ ";

# output:
test-uaaaaaaaeceeeeiiiidnoooooouuuuyss-and-aaaaaaaeceeeeiiiidnoooooouuuuyy
```
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function slugify() { tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' <<< "$(sed -z -r -e 's~[^[:alnum:]]+~ ~g' -e 's~^ *~~;s~ *$~~' -e 's~ +~-~g' - <<< "$(iconv -c -t ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE - <<< "$@" )")"; }

mikhail · 2019-06-08 17:45:57 43
Find all FAT-invalid filenames in "."

Find is used to "find" all filenames - grep shows those that are invalid.
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find . | grep -E "(\||\\|\?|\*|<|\"|:|>|\+|\[|\])"

dj_bushido · 2012-01-21 17:54:58 4
Find all NTFS-invalid filenames in "."

Find all files under "." that are invalid NTFS filenames. Find locates all files, and grep shows the invalid ones.
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find . | grep -E "(\||\\|\?|\*|<|\"|:|>)"

dj_bushido · 2012-01-21 17:59:20 5
Fix time-stamped filenames of JPEG images according to the EXIF date the photo was taken

For each *.jpg or *.JPG file in the current directory, extract the date the photo was taken from its EXIF metadata. Then replace the date stamp, which is assumed to exist in the filename, by the date the photo was taken. A trick from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/9256 is used to split the date into its components. Show Sample Output
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```
'2020-04-12 DSC_0146.JPG' -> '2017-12-26 DSC_0146.JPG'
'2020-04-12 DSC_0147.JPG' -> '2017-12-28 DSC_0147.JPG'
```
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(IFS=': '; for i in *.(#i)jpg; do set $(exiv2 -K 'Exif.Image.DateTime' -Pv $i 2> /dev/null); mv -v $i "$1-$2-$3${i#[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]}"; done)

langec · 2020-05-16 12:10:00 132
Sort files in $PWD by year embedded anywhere in filename
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ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r

ysangkok · 2014-01-04 20:50:12 11
Get filename from a full file path
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for /F %G in ('dir /b c:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe') do ( echo %G )

eneko · 2010-06-11 21:28:36 5

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Merge files, joining each line in one line

Change every instance of OLD to NEW in file FILE

Very quick way to change a word in a file. I use it all the time to change variable names in my PHP scripts (sed -i 's/$oldvar/$newvar/g' index.php)

Check syntax of all Perl modules or scripts underneath the current directory

Finds all *.p[ml]-files and runs a perl -c on them, checking whether Perl thinks they are syntactically correct

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Remind yourself to leave in 15 minutes

If you spend most of your time in front of the terminal, leave is a useful reminder. Leave can have absolute form: leave 1555 reminds you to leave at 3:55PM

Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Creates a symbolic link or overwrites an existing one

-n: dereference the existing link -v: (optional) to be sure of what is being done -f: force the deletion of the existing one -s: creates a symlink Be careful: the destination can also be a file or a directory and it will be overwritten.

Write comments to your history.

A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

Create multiple subfolders in one command.

Instead of typing separate commands to create various subfolders, we can create multiple subfolders by listing them between brackets and separated by commas.

Monitor changed files into a log file, with day rotation, using fswatch (MacOS)

This command monitors changes in the current folder structure (subfolders included) and files, and log it into a hidden file in the same folder, called `.file_changes_YYMMDD.log`. Modify the `--exclude` parameters to define what should be skipped.

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