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Backup DVD using HandBrakeCLI
Making copies of your DVD movies into MKV format has never been easier thanks to HandBrake.
Below is a small shell script that uses HandBrakeCLI to save the longest title and Swedish subtitle into MKV format.
#!/bin/bash
# This is a simple shell script which will
# grab the longest title and Swedish subtitle and
# then encode it as MKV
#
TITLE=`lsdvd -c | grep "Disc Title" | gawk '{
# This is a simple shell script which will
# grab the longest title and Swedish subtitle and
# then encode it as MKV
#
TITLE=`lsdvd -c | grep "Disc Title" | gawk '{
Keeping a central file repository
I have multiple computers for which I would like to keep files in sync.
I also happen to have a account on DreamHost as a webhosting company. There hosting plan includes a 50GB backup user so why not take advantage of that.
Alias arguments in bash
Use a function instead.
al() { ls -lAogFt $* | more; }
References
* http://my.brandeis.edu/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00046x
Sed
Sed is a very useful program that often is used as a filter in shell scripts.
From the sed man page:
Sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline).
Simple find-and-replace in text file
To replace all occurrences of the string findme and replace it with the string replcaceme in a file named test.file using sed just use the follwing command.
sed -e 's/findme/replaceme/g' test.fil > newtest.fil
