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List files in tarballs

This script will list all the files in the tarballs present on any folder or subfolder of the provided path. The while loop is for echoing the file name of the tarball before listing the files, so the tarball can be identified
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find <path> -name "*.tgz" -or -name "*.tar.gz" | while read file; do echo "$file: "; tar -tzf $file; done

polaco · 2009-11-10 20:39:04 36
Remove current directory

CHANGELOG Version 1.1 removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } BUG FIX: Folders with spaces Version 1.0 removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } BUG FIX: Hidden directories (.dotdirectory) Version 0.9 rmdir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD. Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } Removes current directory with recursive and force flags plus basic human check. When prompted type yes 1. [user@host ~]$ ls foo bar 2. [user@host ~]$ cd foo 3. [user@host foo]$ removedir 4. yes 5. rm -Rf foo/ 6. [user@host ~]$ 7. [user@host ~]$ ls bar Show Sample Output
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```
#### Use example ####
[user@host Downloads]$ wtzc http://raoulito.info/plugins/pidgin_screenshot/pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3.tar.gz
[user@host pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3]$ ls
aclocal.m4    config.h.in   INSTALL              m4           README
AUTHORS       config.sub    install-sh           Makefile.am  src
build-aux     configure     intltool-extract.in  Makefile.in  VERSION
ChangeLog     configure.ac  intltool-merge.in    missing
config        COPYING       intltool-update.in   NEWS
config.guess  depcomp       ltmain.sh            po
[user@host pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3]$ removedir
You are about to delete the current directory /home/user/Downloads/pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3/ Are you sure?
yes
[user@host Downloads]$
```
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removedir () { echo "Deleting the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }

oshazard · 2010-01-17 11:34:38 31
Individually compress each file in a directory

Compresses each file individually, creating a $fileneame.tar.gz and removes the uncompressed version, usefull if you have lots of files and don't want 1 huge archive containing them all. you could replace ls with ls *.pdf to just perform the action on pdfs for example.
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ls | while read filename; do tar -czvf "$filename".tar.gz "$filename"; rm "$filename"; done

Thingymebob · 2010-03-29 08:10:38 8
Automatd ssh public key setup without ssh-copy-id

Some servers don't have ssh-copy-id, this works in those cases. It will ask for the destination server, this can be IP, hostname, or user@hostname if different from current user. Ssh keygen will let you know if a pubkey already exists on your system and you can opt to not overwrite it.
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echo 'Host or User@Host?:'; read newserver && ssh-keygen -N "" -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa ; ssh $newserver cat <~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ">>" ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ; ssh $newserver

alf · 2010-05-07 06:24:53 4
Show all cowsay's available cowfiles
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cowsay -l | sed '1d;s/ /\n/g' | while read f; do cowsay -f $f $f;done

fizz · 2010-09-06 03:40:42 4
add title and alt-text to your collection of xkcd comics

full command: for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do; echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-$[0-9]\+$-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "$[^"]*$", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; at="$(sed 's/.*alt": "$.*$", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; convert -background white -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf -pointsize 26 -size ${xw}x -gravity Center caption:"$tt" tt.png; convert -background '#FFF9BD' -border 1x1 -bordercolor black -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf -pointsize 16 -size $(($xw - 2))x -gravity Center caption:"$at" at.png; th=$(identify -format '%h' tt.png); ah=$(identify -format '%h' at.png); convert -size ${xw}x$(($xh+$th+$ah+5)) "xc:white" tt.png -geometry +0+0 -composite $fn -geometry +0+$th -composite at.png -geometry +0+$(($th+$xh+5)) -composite ${fn%\.*}_cmp.png; echo -e "$fn $nn $xw $xh $th $ah \n$tt \n$at\n"; done this assumes that all comics are saved as xkcd-[number]-[title].{png|jpg}. it will then download the title and alt-text, create pictures from them, and put everything together in a new png-file. it's not perfect, but it worked for nearly all my comics. it uses the xkcd-json-interface. though it's poorly written, it doesn't completely break on http://xkcd.com/859/
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for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-$[^-]\+$-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "$[^"]\+$",.*/\1/' ...

fpunktk · 2012-01-06 20:26:11 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 10
Prefix file contents with filename
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for i in $(seq 1 20); do while read line; do echo "$i: $line"; done<$i.py; done

evandrix · 2012-03-09 01:06:50 3
Process each item with multiple commands (in while loop)
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find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do echo $dir; echo cmd2; done

techie · 2013-04-29 10:15:13 6
make soft links from a downloaded bin folder
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ls | while read line; do ln -s "$(pwd)/$line" "/usr/bin/$line"; done

rawm · 2015-03-24 06:47:56 10
do mvn clean in subdirs to free disk space

this command is used to locate all pom.xml files, access the dir and do a mvn clean, but I do recommend you to disable network interfaces to not download dependencies packages to be faster. Show Sample Output
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```
...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
```
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find -name pom.xml | while read f; do cd $(dirname "$f"); mvn clean; cd -; done;

glaudiston · 2015-04-15 21:24:49 13
Cherry-pick range of commits, starting from the tip of 'master', into 'preview' branch

Creating feature-branches off master, and trying to merge them in an integration branch (preview), sometimes causes conflicts because the feature-branch might hold changes from 'master' that aren't on preview yet. So this ensures only the commits added to the feature-branch are moved to integration (preview). Note: This assumes you're currently on the feature-branch. Adjust 'master/preview' branch names to suit your environment.
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git rev-list --reverse --topo-order master... | while read rev; do git checkout preview; git cherry-pick $rev || break; done

shadyvb · 2015-04-23 14:28:06 11
rm all files you grep

This command deletes all files in all subfolders if their name or path contains "deleteme". To dry-run the command without actually deleting files run: find . | grep deleteme | while read line; do echo rm $line; done
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find . | grep deleteme | while read line; do rm $line; done

tec · 2009-02-18 00:55:57 8
Convert *.mp3 files to *.wav for recording audio cd's
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ls |while read line ; do mpg321 -w "$line.wav" "$line" ; done

headshot · 2009-02-18 21:04:52 6
Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest last)

Found this one little more for me. This one removes the perl dependency (from command 2535). Source for command : http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/ Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/share/compiz $ duf *
4k	text.xml
8k	video.xml
12k	session.xml
40k	colorfilter.xml
92k	staticswitcher.xml
184k	shift.xml
356k	animation.xml
1M	reflection.png
```
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function duf { du -sk "$@" | sort -n | while read size fname; do for unit in k M G T P E Z Y; do if [ $size -lt 1024 ]; then echo -e "${size}${unit}\t${fname}"; break; fi; size=$((size/1024)); done; done; }

marssi · 2009-07-02 19:56:36 6
Convert all .wav to .mp3
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ls *.wav | while read f; do lame "$f" -o "$(echo $f | cut -d'.' -f1)".mp3; done;

glaudiston · 2010-02-22 14:10:39 7
Replace spaces in filename

all files in the directory get moved, in doing so the new name of the file is the original name with out spaces (using translate command)
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ls | while read -r FILE; do mv -v "$FILE" `echo $FILE | tr -d ' '`; done

IgnitionWeb · 2010-08-14 14:10:48 33
Listen and sort your music, with prompt for deleting

Old drive with lots of music or unsorted drive? This command will play all mp3 files in a folder and after playing one song or pressing q, it will ask you if you want to delete the file.
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for i in $(ls *.mp3); do mplayer $i && echo "delete it? [y/n]" && read trash && if [ "$trash" == "y" ]; then rm $i; fi; do

wibbel4 · 2013-12-23 20:09:56 9
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories

I hate -exec with find, and this pattern quickly expands to other tasks.
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find . -type f | while read f; do chmod -x "$f"; done

alesplin · 2009-11-09 04:30:44 3
Press Any Key to Continue

how to finish command or script without any output Show Sample Output
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```
root@ubuserver:~# read enterKey

root@ubuserver:~#
```
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read enterKey

bbmarek · 2009-12-29 00:18:32 7
Prepend string to filename

Prepends all directory items with "prependtext"
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ls | while read -r FILE; do mv -v "$FILE" `echo "prependtext$FILE" `; done

IgnitionWeb · 2010-08-14 14:19:18 13
Replace spaces with tabs & format file source recursively within a directory

Recursively find php files and replace tab characters with spaces. Options: "\*.php" -- replace this with the files you wish to find "expand" -- replace tabs with spaces (use "unexpand" to replace spaces with tabs) "-t4" -- tabs represent 4 spaces Note: The IFS="" in the middle is to prevent 'read' from eating leading/trailing whitespace in filenames.
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find . -type f -name \*.php | while IFS="" read i; do expand -t4 "$i" > "$i-"; mv "$i-" "$i"; done

flatcap · 2011-04-08 12:53:14 50
Find top 5 big files

This command is more robust because it handles spaces, newlines and control characters in filenames. It uses printf, not ls, to determine file size.
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count=0;while IFS= read -r -d '' line; do echo "${line#* }"; ((++count==5)) && break; done < <(find . -type f -printf '%s %p\0' | sort -znr)

sharfah · 2013-03-19 17:19:26 4
copy files listed in a text file

If you want to copy all files listed (with full path) in a text-file (i.e. cmus playlist.pl) to a certain directory use this nice oneliner... Credits goes to RiffRaff: http://www.programmingforums.org/post242527-2.html
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(while read fn; do; cp "$fn" $DESTINATION\.; done<filename.txt)

jameskirk · 2013-05-05 16:29:51 11
Recursively grep a subdirectory for a list of files

This command will grep the entire directory looking for any files containing the list of files. This is useful for cleaning out your project of old static files that are no longer in use. Also ignores .svn directories for accurate counts. Replace 'static/images/' with the directory containing the files you want to search for. Show Sample Output
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```
select-button.gif [1]
select-top.png [1]
tab.png [0]
Thumbs.db [0]
```
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ls -1 static/images/ | while read line; do echo -n $line' '[; grep -rc $line *|grep -v ".svn"|cut -d":" -f2|grep -vc 0| tr "\n" -d; echo -n ]; echo ; done

psytek · 2009-03-20 20:33:36 14
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Change the From: address on the fly for email sent from the command-line

It's very common to have cron jobs that send emails as their output, but the From: address is whatever account the cron job is running under, which is often not the address you want replies to go to. Here's a way to change the From: address right on the command line. What's happening here is that the "--" separates the options to the mail client from options for the sendmail backend. So the -f and -F get passed through to sendmail and interpreted there. This works on even on a system where postfix is the active mailer - looks like postfix supports the same options. I think it's possible to customize the From: address using mutt as a command line mailer also, but most servers don't have mutt preinstalled.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Speak the top 6 lines of your twitter timeline every 5 minutes.....

Pump up the chatter, run this script on a regular basis to listen to your twitter timeline. This is a rough first cut using several cli clips I have spotted around. There is no facility to not read those things already read to you. This could also easily be put in a loop for timed onslaught from the chatterverse, though I think it might violate several pointsof the Geneva Convention UPDATE - added a loop, only reads the first 6 twits, and does this every 5 mins.

Find the package that installed a command

Create a new file

Killing processes with your mouse in an infinite loop

Useful for quickly cleaning your Desktop. Nice joke if launched at startup.

Put the machine to sleep after the download(wget) is done

[Note: This command needs to be run as root]. If you are downloading something large at night, you can start wget as a normal user and issue the above command as root. When the download is done, the computer will automatically go to sleep. If at any time you feel the computer should not go to sleep automatically(like if you find the download still continuing in the morning), just create an empty file called nosleep in /tmp directory.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

put an unpacked .deb package back together

If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (ie, conffiles files in /etc modi‐fied), the new package will inherit the changes. This way you can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer available elsewhere. Note: dpkg-repack will place the created package in the current directory.

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