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Command Line Magic
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Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use in $TWITTER_CHAR_LIMIT characters or less. Here mostly to inspire. Also on mastodon.social/@climagic
- echo "Is this real life?" | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n | cowsay -n
00:00- telnet mapscii.me # For maps in your terminal from OpenStreetMap. Yes really.
- inotifywait -e open art.jpg && s=$(stat -c %s art.jpg );h=$(($s/2));r=$((s-h)); dd if=/dev/urandom | grep -a -o -P "[\x01-\xD0]" | tr -d $'\n' | dd of=art.jpg bs=1 seek=$h count=$r # Digitally "shred" half a file after it is opened. #Banksy
- socat -d -d TCP-L:22,reuseaddr,fork SYSTEM:"nc \$SOCAT_PEERADDR 22" # Confuse people SSHing to your host with a redirect back to theirs.
- I had an epiphany yesterday. I think I now know why the parent directory in Unix is represented by two dots.
- They started using Linux at the fortune cookie factory because they heard they could save a fortune.
- telnet mapscii.me # For maps in your terminal from OpenStreetMap. Use arrow keys to move around and a/z to zoom in/out. Or use your mouse if your terminal supports that.
- I like to put sine waves in my log files because that's how I roll. ๐ awk -v cols=$(tput cols) '{c=int(sin(NR/10)*(cols/6)+(cols/6))+1;print(substr($0,1,c-1) "\x1b[41m" substr($0,c,1) "\x1b[0m" substr($0,c+1,length($0)-c+2))}' access_log | less -SR
- 37, the age at which Grace Hopper joined the Navy, learned logic and later invented the compiler. Its never too late to start.
- curl wttr.in # Get local weather forecast in your terminal curl v2.wttr.in # Get local daily graph of temp/precipitation in your terminal Made by @igor_chubin Thx @jthomerson for the heads up













