This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic. $ xkcd(){ local f=$(curl -s http://xkcd.com/);display $(echo \”$f\”|grep -Po \’(?<=\”)http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^\"]+(png|jpg)\’);echo \”$f\”|awk \’/<img src=\”http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/.*?\” title=.*/{gsub(/^.*title=.|\”.*?$/,\”\”);print}\’;} To get a random xkcd [...]
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bash colors
Image via Wikipedia For those of the terminal freaks, color is a bliss. But have you tried all the colors in the terminal. Today someone forwarded me a bash one liner for the same. Not sure where he got this from, anyway here is the one liner for you all: for c in `seq 0 [...]
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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Insert a comment on command line for reminder
Bookmark this category Insert a comment on command line for reminder $ ls -alh #mycomment Comments can be used directly on the command line so I can save in the history a brief description of what command does. * View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites * View all commands by vgagliardi [...]