Quick tip, you can use any expression for the sed commands in the (). With this trick you can redirect the stdout of 2 commands to the diff command. This might become very useful, if you want to compare 2 files, excluding the first line. diff <(sed ’1d’ file) <(sed ’1d’ file2) More interesting example [...]
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Cont: Get yourself some more conkyrc files.
Last time we got ourselves some conkyrc files from the ubuntu forums. But that scripts gets the files only from the First page of the thread. Lets extend this further and get the script to get all the conkyrc files. There are some 1048 pages in the thread, I am showing pages 1 to 3 [...]
Script to get yourself some conkyrc files
Continuing from where we left, here is a script that can do all this for you curl http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865\&page=$i | sed -n ‘/\\/pr/ p’| sed ‘// d’| sed ‘s##\n———————————–\n\n\n#’ >conkyrc dos2unix conkyrc cp conkyrc .test while [ $(wc -l .test|sed 's/[^0-9]//g’) != 0 ] do sed -n ’1,/————————/ p’ .test|sed ‘$d’ >conkyrc.$count diff .test conkyrc.$count |sed [...]
Hi, I am Amit Agarwal. I am the sole author of this blog and have worked on Linux for more than 10 Years now. My favourite is Fedora and am using Fedora at home and office.
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