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Weihnachten 2012

Post author By Christian
Post date 2012-12-25

Baam & Bua

interesting ports (MacPorts)

Post author By Christian
Post date 2012-08-12

HandBrake – MPEG tool
hexfiend – hex editor
macfuse, sshfs – user space file systems
textmate2 – text editor
wget

unzip all zip files in the current dir to a separate folder

Post author By Christian
Post date 2012-03-16

for file in `ls *.zip`; do unzip $file -d `echo $file | cut -d "." -f 1`; done

Tags bash shell linux

linux :: add a new hdd

Post author By Christian
Post date 2012-02-02

e.g. /dev/sdb

partition disk:

fdisk /dev/sdb
new partition: key n
primary partition: key p
partition 1
default values
write: key w

format disk:
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1

edit /etc/fstab accordingly

convert between character sets on linux

Post author By Christian
Post date 2012-01-30

to convert a file from utf-16 to utf-8 you can use recode (make a copy of the file first!):

recode UTF16..UTF8 myFile.txt

Tags convert charset utf8

diff two folders on OSX

Post author By Christian
Post date 2011-12-15

diff -qr "path/to/first/dir" "/path/to/second/dir" | grep -v -e 'Thumbs' -e 'DS_Store' | sort > diff.txt

openvpn resolv.conf

Post author By Christian
Post date 2011-12-05

sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

selecting a random file in the current folder

Post author By Christian
Post date 2011-11-03

#!/bin/bash
files=(*)
echo "${files[RANDOM % ${#files[@]}]}"

using grep and xargs

Post author By Christian
Post date 2011-09-17

open all files that contain “/sdk/” for edit:
grep -Rl "/sdk/" . | xargs p4 edit

replace all occurences of /sdk/ with /new_sdk/
grep -Rl "/sdk/" . | xargs sed -i "s#/sdk/#/new_sdk/#g"

reindex avi

Post author By Christian
Post date 2011-09-15

if your avi index is corrupt, you can use a tool included in MPlayer (on OSX: sudo port install MPlayer)

mencoder -idx corruptAvi.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o ReIndexedAvi.avi