Snipplr - noah

(Bash) Dump a file to the terminal, starting at some line number

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:50:36 GMT

tail -n+99 foo.txt will read everything from foo.txt, starting with line 99. Pipe that into more and you just look at the few line(s) you really need. Todo: I'd like to learn to narrow this so I only print the lines I want to see, not the lines AND everything after.

(Bash) grep for either of two strings

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:29:33 GMT

Here's an example of using grep to filter for links that contain the string 'jpg' or 'gif'

(Ruby) Parse an XML document with REXML and print some of the text nodes

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:50:22 GMT

Parses the XML file MY_FILE.xml, and prints the text from each record node's upload_list node, unless the upload_list node is empty.

(Perl) capitalize words

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:53:02 GMT

(Perl) Grab linked files from a list of web pages

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:31:30 GMT

Expects as argument the name of a file containing a newline-delimited list of URLs. When invoked, launches an interactive shell that asks what type of file should be downloaded. Then downloads all the files that are linked from each of the listed Web pages.

(Perl) Remove duplicate lines from a text file

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:06:34 GMT

Sometimes I get a big list of things, and some of the things occur multiple times in the same list. A good example is a newline-delimited list of files: the same file path might be listed 4 or 5 times. So this script removes those kinds of duplicate lines. Found at Google Answers.

(Perl) Examine CSS selectors in JSP files and report on whether they match some patterns

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:27:59 GMT

Processe a directory of JSP source files, looks for regex matches, and reports on the number and location of matches. For detecting deprecated attributes in XHTML. Uses Mail::Outlook to send an email. Requires you to click "ok" each time a notification is sent, but gets around firewalls.

(CSS) Indent text after line wrap

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:48:24 GMT

When a line of text is longer than the width of its container, it will break onto the next line. This style causes all lines but the first to be

(JavaScript) Summarize Web page bookmarklet

Tue, 01 May 2007 19:18:50 GMT

Grabs the URL, TITLE, and selected text (if any) from the current page. Then makes a new window with a TEXTAREA and pastes the text into the new window. This version was designed to work with a client's Jira installation, so it filters the identifying string off the end of titles. In practice this bookmarklet will work on any Web page.

(JavaScript) copy selected text

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:28:37 GMT

This function returns the text that the user currently has selected.

(Perl) Text change across multiple files

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:01:18 GMT

Put this in a script called "update.pl" and call it with "ls *ext|xargs perl update.pl" Be sure to back up the work directory before playing with this, as it is very easy to wipe out the content of a bunch of files at once in this way.