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Tag: CLI

Extracting the MP3 stream from a Flash Video (flv) file

I wanted to convert an Flash Video (flv) file from YouTube to MP3. The first tip I found essentially streamed the original file into a different file: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 years ago, on March 10, 2009, at 21:03 | 2 comments

My quest for the ultimate Bash prompt

On my new laptop (a Lenovo T61) I was still using the default Gentoo prompt in Bash. This was kind of a shame since my last Gentoo installation (on what is now my sister's Ubuntu machine) had a beautifully customized prompt. It was time to dig up the old escape codes. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 years ago, on December 05, 2008, at 00:12 | 3 comments

GNU Screen window captions as XTerm tabs

XTerm is my favorite terminal emulator and I love GNU Screen. So, imagine my joy when I found out that Screen can persistently show window captions ([Ctrl+A]: caption always). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 years ago, on December 04, 2008, at 22:12 | 5 comments

XTerm is favorite

XTerm is know to most X-Windows users as that ugly terminal with the strange scrollbar and the unreadable font. And it doesn't even have tabs! But, I think it's the best damn terminal emulator in the world. It just doesn't appear that way at first. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 years ago, on November 27, 2008, at 23:11 | 5 comments

png2ico: converting favicons to Windows’ ICO format

Even though, strictly speaking, I should be using favicons in anything but Windows' ICO format and refer to them from a <link>-tag at any location other than /favicon.ico, I sometimes like to help Microsoft break the web by putting an ICO file at the location that they reserved for it (/favicon.ico). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on September 04, 2008, at 00:09 | 1 comment

Using wget to download all files on a page

Just a quick one-liner I used to download a bunch of MIDI files from an on-line listing of Chopin MIDIs: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on August 27, 2008, at 23:08 | 5 comments

Using diff and patch to upgrade web application installations

Update (July 30, 2008): I added information about making sure that the patch was successful. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on March 13, 2008, at 21:03 | 2 comments