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Ryan Schwartz http://ryanschwartz.net/

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World clock shell script

#!/bin/sh
TZ=US/Pacific date +"Jason/Nate: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=US/Central date +"Ryan: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=US/Eastern date +"Jan/Daniel: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=US/Eastern date +"Terrel/Christopher: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=UTC date +"UTC/GMT: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=Europe/Amsterdam date +"Filip/Marten: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=Europe/Amsterdam date +"Florian/Johan: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=Europe/Paris date +"Dean/Damelon: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=Australia/Melbourne date +"Justin: %I:%M %p %a %D"
TZ=NZ date +"Koz: %I:%M %p %a %D"

delete a filename starting with a dash

Have you ever created a file by mistakenly adding a flag where you shouldn't? Find the inode number of the file and delete it using find:

[one:~/src/oops] ryanschwartz$ cp test -p
[one:~/src/oops] ryanschwartz$ ls
-p test
[one:~/src/oops] ryanschwartz$ rm -p
rm: illegal option -- p
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[one:~/src/oops] ryanschwartz$ \rm -p
rm: illegal option -- p
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[one:~/src/oops] ryanschwartz$ ls -li
total 0
5937393 -rw-r--r-- 1 ryanschwartz textdrive - 0B May 27 18:04 -p
5937392 -rw-r--r-- 1 ryanschwartz textdrive - 0B May 27 18:04 test
[one:~/src/oops] ryanschwartz$ find . -inum 5937393
./-p
[one:~/src/oops] ryanschwartz$ find . -inum 5937393 -exec rm {} \;
[one:~/src/oops] ryanschwartz$ ls -li
total 0
5937392 -rw-r--r-- 1 ryanschwartz textdrive - 0B May 27 18:04 test
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