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Decode \x{ABCD}-style Unicode escape sequences

This is especially useful to get crazy stuff like space characters copied to your pasteboard correctly. Source: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ unidecode "\x{1D306}"
&#119558;
$ unidecode "\x{00A9}\x{2122}\x{00AE}"
???
```
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perl -e "binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8'); print \"$@\""; echo # newline

mathias · 2012-01-02 10:34:51 7
Quick access to ASCII code of a key

It shows the complete ascii table, and it works in BSD too, not only in Linux.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

man ascii

titan2x · 2012-01-26 20:39:13 4
Convert ascii string to hex

hexdump could be used for conversion too!
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

echo -n text | hexdump -C

Tomofumi · 2014-02-21 09:15:15 8
Print hex codes of a given string

Prints a string as a sequence of hexadecimal values. Output comes in space separated pairs, regardless of ASCII or Unicode characters Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ hexstring commandlinefu
63 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 6c 69 6e 65 66 75
```
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hexstring () { perl -p -e 's/(.)/sprintf("%02x", ord($1))/eg' << $1 }

hellcode · 2016-05-03 22:44:24 10
Show all cowsay's available cowfiles
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-2

cowsay -l | sed '1d;s/ /\n/g' | while read f; do cowsay -f $f $f;done

fizz · 2010-09-06 03:40:42 5

Text to ascii art

convert your text to ascii art Show Sample Output

-5

figlet gunslinger_

gunslinger_ · 2010-07-11 16:23:19 7

Lire une video dans une console Linux

Permet de lire une video dans une console, meme sans interface graphique. Interet limite, mais a connaitre au cas ou.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-11

mplayer -vo caca foo.avi

farwarx · 2009-05-25 09:29:24 8
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Display the list of all opened tabs from Firefox via a python one-liner and a shell hack to deal with python indentation.

You have to do that before : $ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/ Require bash. If you use something else, you may use $ echo | python Forked from ArkSeth python script.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Remove all the files except abc in the directory

Finds all files in the current directory and deletes them besides file called "abc"

Show git log beautifully

Only show a short of important information inline ( include branch info ), and color this log tree.

Get line number of all matches in a file

Copy with progress

generate a random 10 character password

Generate a table of random 10 character passwords

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