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Thanks, trying to find mplayer for osx binary now. Will try and report back.

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I can't find command line...

do you know of any other way I can do this or how to get started with transcoding?

Lets say I want to curl a JPG file from this MJPG stream, how can this be done?

I tried using curl but it just keeps capturing the entire stream.

curl -o ~/Desktop/sample.jpg...

I have a long string that looks something like this....
<string>http://abc.com/40/20/zzz061-3472/dP3rXLpPPV2KC846nJ4VXpH7jt4b3LJgkL/tarfile_date.tar</string>

I need to but the tar file...

First one didn't work
ls | sed $((RANDOM%$(ls | wc -w)+1))!d
-bash: !d: event not found

The second one works perfectly. Can you help me understand how it works? thanks.

Lets say I want to pick a random file when I do an "ls" command. I don't have set number of files in each directory.


ls | head -1

This gives me the first one in each directory, is there a way...

I think it was already correct. Still the same issue. Would you like me to post my entire script? Are you on a MAC?

I get command not found for every UNIQUE ID. If it's easier can anyone help me start my UID at 499 and count down until it finds one that is not in use?

Wrote a script to create a hidden account in OS X. It works perfect but I need to check if the UID is already in use before I tried to create the account.


dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk...

WOW Thanks a Million. I'm not sure how it works but it does.

You are right but, how can I make the computer automatically replace the space with \space.
ssh -q user@remotehost "open /Volumes/backup/file\ name"
This works but I need to automate replacing the...

I use Rsync to copy files to a remote folder in a command like this
rsync -aNPHAXxrvh --protect-args --fileflags --force-change --delete $file user@remotehost:/Volumes/backup

That works great...

Thanks for following up... but I when I run that command it still request for a password. Is there any other way I can check if I can do passwordless ssh?

I'm not sure if the question is not clear or it's just not possible. Can anyones help? Thanks

I have a list of IPs I need to SSH in located in a file called ~/DesktopIPList. When I run this and I don't have a key exchange with a host on the IP list It hangs the script for a few seconds...

Thanks to the help from this forum i've learned a lot of good stuff but I still have questions :).
I need to write a script that checks if ssh to a box requires a password. I need it will be an...

Thanks that worked.

I tried it but still have the same issue using double quotas.
find: ~/Desktop/testfolder/abc\ def: No such file or directory

Im trying to make a very simple find the first file with the .zip extension in a specific folder and open that file.

The folder path and file name will vary every-time and it may contain spaces....

Thanks manikantants, I know I will be using ssh but know but I just don't know how to tell an ssh script what is local and what is remote when I type a command.

Also not sure if I can run the...

Do you want the script to read the file and stop when a user presses the n or N key and then process the rest of the script?

I honestly tried searching for this in this forum and in google. Maybe I found the answer but didn't even realized it.

I would like to run shell script thats on my machine that collects the...

I will try it but I'm just trying to make all on 1 file the script and the xsl. Like I just type the file on my shell script as a variable and not have to use two file .sh and a xsl file.
I know I'm...

Actually 1 last quick question... instead of using the xsl as a file can I just how can I use the entire file as a variable in shell script.

If I do xsl= ......the entire content of the xsl...

Actually I got a chance to read your thread 20 times and not sure how but it works. Well I have a general Idea. Thanks.