Posted by Kelvin on 28 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
Anyone on Ubuntu will probably have used gedit at one time or the other. Well, gedit just got cooler. Turns out you can map/remap shortcuts on all gnome-based applications including gedit by changing a simple setting. 1. Hit Alt-F2, enter gconf-editor 2. Go to desktop > gnome > interface 3. check can_change_accels Now in gconf-editor, […]
Posted by Kelvin on 22 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
clive is an awesome tool for downloading google video and youtube flash videos from the command-line. sudo apt-get install clive # download google video in flv clive http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1388254997387483895 # download youtube in mp4 clive –format=mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPyuH4qXLZ0 # download list of URLs in file cat urls.txt | clive
Posted by Kelvin on 16 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
For example, to move all mp3 files in sub directories into the current dir: find . -name *.mp3 -exec mv {} . \;
Posted by Kelvin on 16 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
Sometimes you want to get to all MP3 or PDF files which are nested in a deep directory tree. Here's what you do.. rsync -rvtW –delay-updates –modify-window=1 –progress –include='*.pdf' –include='*.xml' –exclude='*.*' source dest
Posted by Kelvin on 06 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
Shameless ripped from http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/19-ffmpeg-commands-for-all-needs Getting infos from a video file ffmpeg -i video.avi Turn X images to a video sequence ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg video.mpg This command will transform all the images from the current directory (named image1.jpg, image2.jpg, etc…) to a video file named video.mpg. Turn a video to X images ffmpeg -i […]
Posted by Kelvin on 04 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
For Ubuntu.. sudo apt-get install ffmpeg cd ~/bin wget https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2010.11.19/youtube-dl chmod +x youtube-dl wget http://www.supermind.org/scripts/youtube2mp3 chmod +x youtube2mp3 The contents of youtube2mp3 is simple: #!/bin/bash #!/bin/bash x=/tmp/.youtube-dl-$RANDOM-$RANDOM.flv youtube-dl –output=$x –format=18 "$1" ffmpeg -i $x -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 256k -f mp3 "$2" Now get the youtube URL you want to […]
Posted by Kelvin on 04 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: PHP
Ever wanted to format your XML nicely? Use the SimpleDOM class. Usage is like so: include "SimpleDOM.php"; $xml = "<foo><bar>car</bar></foo>"; $dom = simpledom_load_string($xml); $xml = $dom->asPrettyXML(); echo $xml; Produces: <?xml version="1.0"?> <foo> <bar>car</bar> </foo>
Posted by Kelvin on 04 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
Ever thought typing cd.. 5 times was silly? Try this up() function! Add this to .bash_profile or .bashrc up () { if [ -z $1 ]; then cd .. elif [ $1 -gt 0 ]; then let count=0 while [ $count -lt $1 ]; do cd .. let count=count+1 done else echo "Argument must be […]
Posted by Kelvin on 04 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
#!/bin/bash find ./ -name ".svn" | xargs rm -Rf
Posted by Kelvin on 04 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Ubuntu
Starting a new blog series on bash scripts you shouldn't live without. Installation for scripts is simple: either add them to /usr/bin or add ~/bin to your bash path and place your scripts there. Don't forget to make the scripts executable! Here's a complete example: Suppose you wanted to create a script called foobar and […]