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Posts Tagged ‘cli’

Display user account info in a Windows AD

Posted in Work on 29 May 2010 | Comments?
Tags: cli, windows

(Hell just froze over! I’m actually using Active Directory! In Windows! {Well, I did use Active Directory in a previous job, but that was because of LDAP…} {And I’m using waaay too many exclamation marks!} Anyway: it’s the command line — gosh, I miss the C:\ prompt. Not!) To display user info in an Active [...]

Generate random strings

Posted in Play on 16 January 2010 | Comments?
Tags: cli, linux, scripting, tips

(Another “piecemeal” post. Yes, I know: I should write more often.) I cycle through one-off passwords (of varying lengths). To generate these, I use the following shell script: #!/bin/bash   usage() { echo "Usage: `basename $0` [length]" }   [ $# -gt 1 ] && usage && exit 65   [ $# -eq 0 ] [...]

Find duplicate files

Posted in Play on 6 January 2010 | 2 comments
Tags: bash, cli, fedora, linux, perl, scripting, tools

Update: As Pádraig Brady, fslint maintainer, pointed out: fslint/findup *is* a shell script. My 500-GB Seagate FreeAgent Desktop is almost filled to the brim (there’s *only* ~70GB free space left) so I need to find all duplicate files for clean-up. Fortunately, there are tools to do just this. I tried fslint, which is also available [...]

Get Twitter timeline from the CLI

Posted in Play on 9 September 2009 | Comments?
Tags: bash, cli, gmail, linux, twitter

We already know how to update Twitter from the command line. To get your and your friends’ timeline from the CLI, use the following one-liner: curl -u username –silent "https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss" | perl -ne ‘print "$2\n" if /< (description)>(.*)< \/\1>/;’ Using the same method, you can also get unread Gmail inbox messages (via commandlinefu.com).

SSH on the Nokia E63

Posted in Play on 9 August 2009 | 5 comments
Tags: cli, e63, mobile, nokia, opensource, ssh

I just got a Nokia E63, a long-awaited replacement for a support phone from work. It’s not as advanced as, say, a Nokia E71 or a Blackberry in terms of business-related features, but it would do quite well for my purposes. (My philosophy in mobile phones is that so long as I can connect — [...]