Snipplr - noah

(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'

(Bash) Download linked JPEGs from a Web page, on the command line

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:57:45 GMT

The following command will download all the files with a JPG extension that are linked from http://flickr.com.

(Bash) Create a directory recursively

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:01:14 GMT

Given the legal path of a nonexistent directory, create that path and directory.

(JavaScript) click on an element across browsers

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:08:37 GMT

If you have assigned an event handler to a container, you might want to remotely trigger it as if a child of the container had been clicked. That is, you might want to manually set the target of the 'event' object that is passed to the event handler on the container. This helps to keep the number of event handlers down.

(JavaScript) Crockford's object producer

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:06:54 GMT

Note that this will /not/ work: var a = {a:1, b:2} var b = {prototype: a}

(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.

(JavaScript) Safely Get and Operate Upon An Element

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:09:25 GMT

Pass this an ID or an object reference, as well as any number of functions that take the referenced object as a parameter. This wrapper is intended to provide a sanity check against missing DOM elements.

(Perl) rename - Larry Wall's filename fixer

Mon, 21 May 2007 04:49:45 GMT

Invoke this script without any arguments to see the help text. From the Perl Cookbook, Ch. 9.9.