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Send Email from the Command Line using Gmail Account
Sometimes you want to send a quick/short E-mail to somebody, send a TODO item to yourself, or let a script/program Email you when it’s done. For these I found the Linux mail command very useful.
Using it is as easy as typing:
mail -s “Subject” receipt@domain.com
Then enter the message and end it with [ctrl]+[D].
However, if your ISP s!#$% like mine, you’ll discover that no mail was really sent.
To work around this, I wanted to configure my mail program to use Gmail’s SMTP server.
A Bash Script To Decode TinyURLs
This is a simple bash script, intended to decode tinyurl URLs, i.e. to revret a tinyurl into the original URL.
It’s always a good practice checking where a URL will send you to before actually visiting it.
For the implementation, I the “Preview” service supplied by tinyurl themselves.
A Bash Script To Watch Live TV Streams
Hi,
In this post I’ll introduce a very simple and basic Bash script, which uses VLC and a plain text file to let you watch Live TV streams of your favorite channels.
First of all, make sure you have VLC installed in your system.
Query Google Finance From the Command Line
This is a one line bash script I wrote to query a stock’s price from Google Finance. It uses wget to get the HTML page from Google Finance and then grep and cut to extract the stock’s price. The script is based on the current HTML format of the Google Finance pages and might not work if Google decide to change this format (It’s easy to modify, though).
To have the script:
Open your favorite text editor (mine is vim), and type/paste this:
Command Line Tools I Like
Though my love with Linux started because its GUI, especially compiz fusion, I discovered through time that Linux’s power is in its command line, almost every thing can be done from there, easily, clean and fast.
Here is a list of the command line tools I use most of the time:
Twitter from the Command Line
This simple but not perfect script will let you twit easily from the command line.
Open a new file with your favorite text editor, and add this:
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curl --basic --user USERNAME:PASSWORD \
--data status="$*" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml -o /dev/null;
Save the file as twit (or any other name you choose).
Of course, we don’t like our password inside an accessible plain text file. So this is what I did:
About Me
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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