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created new yubnub command: findjar

mjava — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:15:53 +0000

I just recently stumbled accross www.findjar.com, a usefull tool
to find jar-files [who would have guessed..]

And I created a yubnub command for it: findjar

Hope somebody else finds this usefull too

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more cmdlines [linux-user only]

mjava — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:19:40 +0000

I recently learned and relearned more of common cmdlines and oneliners in bash.
Posting them gives me a place to lookup these until I enter them properly into my wiki.

linux-users follow here

copying/moving files/directories for backup:
mv originalfilename.txt{,.backup}
will result in originalfilename.txt.backup

!! will repeat the last command, usefull for adding sudo in front of it: ’sudo !!’

As for repeating the last command, you can also use the ‘^a^b’ notation. It will repeat the last command and replace the first ‘a’ with a ‘b’. Let’s see an example:

Let’s say your last command was tar xzvf somefile-version-1.16.9.tar.gz and you realized that
you should have written ‘17′ instead of ‘16′. Here’s the quickfix:
^16^17

If you look at the output of the history command, you’ll see the command-number in front of the command. You can use ‘!’ with the number:

!534

will repeat the command with the number 534.

Another usefull shortcut is + ‘_’. This will repeat the last parameter of the last command, usefull when creating new directories and then ‘cd’ into them.

holidays

mjava — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:59:24 +0000

aaahhhh, wanna go back, now!

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fixing the locks in a svn repository

mjava — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:43:29 +0000

i recently run into an svn error. I could not update/commit whatsoever from/to the repository.
I run a svnadmin verify and discovered that the db-locks run out.

A quick search showed that I should upgrade the underlying berkley-db. I found a guide
to do this:

[LINK]

there is short term fix and a long term fix. thx for the good work!

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My new desk

mjava — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:21:19 +0000

just started my new job at imis.ch and got a clean desk

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Father! (Again!)

mjava — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:32 +0000

Since today 3:55am, a beautiful daughter joined our family!

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The real Thing

mjava — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:54:34 +0000

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Convert mp3 to m4b -> Audiobooks

mjava — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:34:40 +0000

There are a lot of tools available to convert mp3 files into m4b files, the
format for audiobooks on the iPods/iPhones.

However, I stille like to do it on the cmd-line. Its clean and fast. You just need to
have mpg123 and faac installed:

mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o output.m4b -
If you want to convert a whole directory of mp3 files, as it is the common desire, here
is the onliner:
for i in $(ls *mp3); do mpg123 -s $i | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o ${i%mp3}m4b -; done

You can find this cmd-lines also in my wiki.

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Search my Blog and my Wiki via yubnub

mjava — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:33:36 +0000

I created 2 yubnub search commands:
‘lsw word‘ searches on my wiki for word
‘lsb word’ searches on my blog for word

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[game] Challenging the akinator

mjava — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:17:15 +0000

Stumbled about the http://www.devinettor.com/. A genie is guessing what character
you are thinking of. must be interesting programming logic behind it.

Have fun!

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