Author: Christian

interesting ports (MacPorts)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

for filename in *.xml; do newname=`echo $filename | tr -cd '\11\12\15\41-\176'`; mv "$filename" "$newname"; done