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Create AUTH PLAIN string to test SMTP AUTH session

I use this as an alias: alias authplain "printf '\!:1\0\!:1\0\!:2' | mmencode | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/^/AUTH PLAIN /'" then.. # authplain someuser@somedomain.com secretpassword AUTH PLAIN c29tZXVzZXJAc29tZWRvbWFpbi5jb20Ac29tZXVzZXJAc29tZWRvbWFpbi5jb20Ac2VjcmV0cGFzc3dvcmQ= # Show Sample Output
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```
AUTH PLAIN dmlsbGUAdmlsbGUAc2FsYXNhbmE=
```
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printf '\!:1\0\!:1\0\!:2' | mmencode | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/^/AUTH PLAIN /'

vwal · 2009-08-04 05:04:50 4
Combine DVD Studio Pro DDP layers back into a DVD disc image for testing

This will you combine the DDP output of DVD Studio Pro back into a standard ISO disk image so that you can double-check the DDP output process.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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cat dvd_output/Layer0/IMAGE.DAT dvd_output/Layer1/IMAGE.DAT > dvd.iso

clintmiller · 2010-10-07 18:47:39 5
Wait for Web service to spin up, aka alert me when the server stops returning a 503

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```
OK: server is up.
OK: server is up.
OK: server is up.
```
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while true; do curl -vsL -o /dev/null example.com 2>&1 | grep 503 > /dev/null || echo "OK: server is up."; sleep 8; done

noah · 2013-06-26 15:24:51 7
Wait for Web service to spin up, aka alert me when the server stops returning a 503
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while curl -dsL example.com 2>&1 | grep 503;do sleep 8;done;echo server up

emile · 2013-07-10 19:03:25 7
Detect broken video files with mplayer and bash in the current directory

If you want avoid to be annoyed when playing your favourite video files with your video player, first run this command to stash wrong files (and test tricks to play these wrong files). Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
# annoying and the video file won't play :
$ mplayer file.mkv
...
[h264 @ 0x6ad23b85af8e6]no frame!
Error while decoding frame!
...
# so test my command before
```
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for i in *.flv *.mkv *.avi; do mplayer -ao null -vo null -ss 0 -endpos 1 >/dev/null "$i" 2> >(grep -qi error && echo >&2 "$i seems bad"); done

sputnick · 2013-08-20 22:23:11 12
Create AUTH PLAIN string to test SMTP AUTH session
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authplain() { echo -n "AUTH PLAIN "; echo -n \\0$1\\0$2\\0 | base64; }

danky · 2014-11-26 15:24:08 8
Quickly re-launch your script (python for example)

Very useful for test a script. After launch this command, you only have to press ENTER for launch your script again. I work with screen and tape ENTER instead of '!!'+ENTER If you break your script with CTRL-C, it will wait for press ENTER and will re-launch You can write like it : while read -p "Press ENTER" ; do python ; done
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while read ; do python <script> ; done

Zulu · 2012-02-23 22:29:09 14

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Makes you look busy

This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim. Drop this in your .bash_aliases and make sure that file is initialized in your .bashrc.

list files recursively by size

Generate random valid mac addresses

Doubt it actually generates valid mac addresses but this version doesn't need any external commands so it runs much faster. Much shorter as well.

List out classes in of all htmls in directory

Lists out all classes used in all *.html files in the currect directory. usefull for checking if you have left out any style definitions, or accidentally given a different name than you intended. ( I have an ugly habit of accidentally substituting camelCase instead of using under_scores: i would name soemthing counterBox instead of counter_box) WARNING: assumes you give classnames in between double quotes, and that you apply only one class per element.

Create a tar archive using xz compression

Compress files or a directory to xz format. XZ has superior and faster compression than bzip2 in most cases. XZ is superior to 7zip format because it can save file permissions and other metadata data.

Insert a line at the top of a text file without sed or awk or bash loops

Yet another way to add a line at the top a of text file with the help of the tac command (reverse cat).

Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.

Enhanced version: fixes sorting by human readable numbers, and filters out non MB or GB entries that have a G or an M in their name.

fast access to any of your favorite directory.

example: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- user@ubuntu:~/workspace/SVN/haystak-repos/trunk/internal/src$ addpi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now that directory is in the list of fast access directories. You can switch to it anytime like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- user@ubuntu:~$ pi internal` user@ubuntu:~/workspace/SVN/haystak-repos/trunk/internal/src$ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note the backquote ( the symbol that shares its key with ~ in the keyboard ) pi will switch you to that directory. To see the list of all fast access directories you have to say "cat ~/.pi"

List recorded formular fields of Firefox

When you fill a formular with Firefox, you see things you entered in previous formulars with same field names. This command list everything Firefox has registered. Using a "delete from", you can remove anoying Google queries, for example ;-)

know the current running shell (the true)

Return the current shell. It is better than print $SHELL which can sometimes return a false value.

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