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Displaying wireless signal on screen in realtime.

Values will depend on the driver and the hardware specifics, so you need to refer to your driver documentation for proper interpretation of those values. Show Sample Output

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watch -n 1 cat /proc/net/wireless

cantormath · 2012-06-07 10:38:21 5

shows the space of a folder in bytes ever two seconds.

my $.02 Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Every 2.0s: df | grep /media/cdrom0                                                                                                         Thu Feb  5 20:24:22 2009

/dev/sde1            976760000  40156816 936603184   5% /media/cdrom0
```
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watch "df | grep /this/folder/"

bbelt16ag · 2009-02-06 01:25:58 53
Poll and print end of lates modified file

Watches for file modifications in the current directory and tails the file.
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watch 'ls -tr1 | tail -n1 | xargs tail'

batandwa · 2013-05-09 11:37:59 11
Monitor server load as well as running MySQL processes

Useful for monitoring both MySQL and the server load at the same time.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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watch -n 1 uptime\;myqladmin --user=<user> --password=<password> --verbose processlist

root · 2009-03-21 18:29:28 8
alarm central using keyboard as zone inputs ( output spoken out aloud )

evento.sh needed for awk syntax the aplay command makes a camera sound. It takes a picture of who looked at the display #!/bin/bash # evento.sh: deteta evento e fala awk '{print}' | espeak -v pt -stdin awk '/e/{print "emergencia"}' | espeak -v pt -stdin aplay -q /home/mm/bash/camera.wav # -q inibe verbose do comand aplay exit 0
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watch '/home/mm/bash/keypress.sh |/home/mm/bash/evento.sh'

m33600 · 2009-06-07 20:57:49 5
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Sysadmin day date of any given year

Calculate the date of Sysadmin day (last Friday of July) of any given year

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

Dialog's gauge widget accepts progress updates on stdin. This version runs dialog once and updates it every second. There's no need to use timeout which causes screen flicker since it restarts dialog for each update.

Top 20 commands in your bash history

download newest adminer and rename to it's version accordingly

If the version already downloaded. it will not download again

Create a new file

resize all JPG images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)

Convert all jpegs in the current directory into ~1024*768 pixels and ~ 150 KBytes jpegs

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" }

Add prefix onto filenames

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Use GNU info with a pager

This makes GNU info output menu items recursively and pipe its contents to less, allowing one to use GNU info in a manner similar to 'man'.

read manpage of a unix command as pdf in preview (Os X)

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