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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
It will display full paths smaller than 30 characters entirely, but for longer paths it will get only the first characters of the whole path, and the fist characters of the last folder in the full path.
I thought that the only way to do such type of loop in Bash would require something like "n=$(($n+1))" within the loop, with the loop being conditioned to "n" adding up to whatever you want, such as "until ((n==30)) ; do". But you can actually do "for i in {1..20} ; do <whatever> ; done". That's somewhat similar to Basic's "for i=1 to 20 ; whatever ; next i".
But it won't work with variables for the starting and ending numbers....
There's a painting software, "mypaint", which is very nice, but it does not support templates, at least not yet.
I've created a template (just a "blank" file with the correct resolution and whatnot) on GIMP, saved it as "ora", but instead of opening this file manually every time, and remembering to save it with a new name in order to not overwrite the template, I came up with a script that will create a new name automatically, with no risk of overwriting...
Sometimes you want the computer to shut down after you've finished downloading something or converting some large file into some other format, but you want to go out or go to sleep instead of waiting and checking for it yourself.
For these situations I've come up with two tiny scripts. The first one waits until a file hasn't changed its size on three consecutive intervals of twenty seconds:
Code:
a=0 ; file="$1" ; if [ -f "$file.part" ] ; then file="$file.part"
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