pdfsplit: ( 14 lines)
nytget: ( 107 lines)
(c) 2005 chris.wiggins(at)gmail.com
code to download htm from NYT apt listings
csync: ( 159 lines)
(c) 2005 chris.wiggins(at)gmail.com
code to export various csh scripts,
bookmarklets, sedfiles, and aliases
to a webpage for osx hacks.
bibreg: ( 164 lines)
regularizes bibtex files.
(c) 2005 chris.wiggins(at)gmail.com
lookm: ( 64 lines)
sh script to send mail using an address file.
works with attachments too by wrapping around osascript
(c) 2005 chris.wiggins(at)gmail.com
tex-alias-gen: ( 11 lines)
greps out undefined tex commands
mute: ( 18 lines)
tcsh script, wrapping around osascript/applescript,
for muting the volume for set amount of time (or infinite if no argument).
highly useful for commercials, e.g.,
mute 30 &
to mute for 30 seconds.
(c) 2005 chris.wiggins(at)gmail.com
nnice: ( 33 lines)
wrapper around renice to generate command to renice jobs by regexp
or, if no input, contents of the clipboard
to execute simply apple-V
or provide filename to source (default nnice.sh)
note that input could be ucomm (short job ID from top) or pid (process id)
times: ( 39 lines)
wrapper around curling times from timeanddate.com
as command line arguments, input any strings you
want passed as regexps to grep -i -e $1 -e $2 ....
travel: ( 4 lines)
wrapper to travelpedia
wiki: ( 4 lines)
wrapper to wikipedia
goe: ( 44 lines)
tiny tcsh script to build a .kml file so that
I can call google earth from the command line given long+lat
usage: goe long lat log_10(height) description of place
example
goe 30 -90 5 new orleans, louisiana
remember, it's the NS number 1st, then the EW number
sequence: ( 10 lines)
wraps around the best site ever, turns , into %2C
triage: ( 21 lines)
mgm: ( 8 lines)
open your browser in a mobile-formatted gmail search
eliminates spaces
turns / (for dates) into url-formatted /
presumes ~/bin/chrome is location of exe (sorry; for me that's a soft link to /Applications/Google Chrome.app)
gm: ( 8 lines)
open your browser in a gmail search
eliminates spaces
turns / (for dates) into url-formatted /
ejournal: ( 22 lines)
tcsh script, useful for people at columbia,
to direct you to the URL for columbia's link
to a particular journal.
sms: ( 27 lines)
tiny tcsh script to wrap around mailing to teleflip to send sms's by email
urban: ( 16 lines)
useful for defining slang
wiki: ( 4 lines)
wrapper to wikipedia
google: ( lines)
exchange: ( 174 lines)
tcsh script; wrapper to links out currency conversions. 142 currencies definedas of Mon Jun 27 05:22:15 EDT 2005
Sat Jan 10 13:07:12 EST 2009: yahoo changed syntax. going to google:
websync: ( 18 lines)
code to synchronize my webpage
mathbio: ( 14 lines)
tcsh script, to search st-andrew's biographies page
itunes: ( 116 lines)
*NOT WRITTEN BY ME*:
iTunes Command Line Control v1.1
written by David Schlosnagle
created 2001.11.08
see: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20011108211802830
modifications by Wayne k. Walrath - http://www.acmetech.com/ [2004.06.01]
undo iphoto's mangling of html tags