Commands by huazhihao (11)

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batch crop images whit ImageMagick
Just starting to get in love with mogrify.

Convert all Flac in a directory to Mp3 using maximum quality variable bitrate

Locate config files of the program
Locate config files of the program. May not be used for interactive programs like vim.

Re-use the previous command output
The $(!!) will expand to the previous command output (by re-running the command), which becomes the parameter of the new command newcommand.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

A very quick and slick fork bomb. Handle with care. Don't run on production please...

Convert string to uppercase

display a smiling smiley if the command succeeded and a sad smiley if the command failed
you could save the code between if and fi to a shell script named smiley.sh with the first argument as and then do a smiley.sh to see if the command succeeded. a bit needless but who cares ;)

Google text-to-speech in mp3 format
same but redirecting to player and putting whaever text line.. works on my ubuntu machine ...

Parallel mysql dump restore
this command works with one gziped file per table, and restore 4 tables in parallel.


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