Why we love cats and dogs...

http://www.pbs.org/

Few useful scripts

Getting directory size in unix
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This little hackish script gets you the exact size of a directory
(recursively) in bytes. It's nothing fancy, we just trick rsync
into telling us and scrub the output.

Script:
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#!/bin/bash

DIR=${1?Specify a directory}

[ -d "$DIR" ] || { echo "Not a directory: $DIR" && exit 1; }

# We don't actually copy anything (-n is --dry-run)
rsync -n -r "$DIR" /dev/null/ | tail -n1 | perl -pe 's/.*size is ([0-9]+) .*/$1/'

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Grep a class name in a jar
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Usage:
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$ grepjar EXP JARS...
$ grepjar MyClass myapp.jar

Usable with find.
find ~/.m2/repository/ -name '*.jar' -exec grepjar.sh MyClass {} \;

Or find and xargs
find ~/.m2/repository/ -name '*.jar' | xargs grepjar.sh MyClass

Script:
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#!/bin/bash

EXP=${1?must specify a pattern}
shift

for n in "$@"; do
jar tvf "$n" | egrep "$EXP"
[ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "$n"
done

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Relative to Absolute file path conversions:
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Here is a little perl script that can turn relative file paths into absolute file paths.
Couldn't find a command for it, so this is the next best thing.

put this in a bin directory in your path somewhere
rel2abs

#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Spec;
foreach (@ARGV) {
push @files, File::Spec->rel2abs($_);
}
print join(" ",@files) . "\n";

then just chmod it

# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/rel2abs

then run it

# rel2abs ~/././*
/root/anaconda-ks.cfg /root/Desktop /root/install.log /root/install.log.syslog /root/setup.txt

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Source: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ninja/Home

Finding MAC address on Solaris 10

For users with no root permission:
arp host-name

Obama's inaugural address photo

This is a photo taken using a panorama image
capturing device called Gigapan created by
the Carnegie Mellon university and a Canon
G10 camera.

The photographer had to click 220 snaps from
that camera to get this complete view of
Obama's inaugural address. It took a Macbook
Pro around 7hours to process the complete
image.

click here to look at the image.
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php