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Swipe650 / Edit meta data of mp3 file using lame
Last active May 12, 2024 12:22
Edit meta data of mp3 file using lame
lame --ti image.jpeg 'song.mp3'
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Swipe650 / Edit meta data of flac files using ffmpeg
Last active May 12, 2024 12:23
Edit meta data of flac files using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i "song.flac" -i ./image.jpg -map 0:a -map 1 -codec copy -metadata:s:v title="Album cover" -metadata:s:v comment="Cover (front)" -disposition:v attached_pic "new_song_name.flac"
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Swipe650 / vacuum journal
Created November 20, 2022 14:00
sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=30d
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Swipe650 / Create USB stick from iso
Created January 24, 2021 12:00
dd bs=4M if=path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress oflag=sync
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Swipe650 / Systemd-boot install and create configs
Created May 14, 2020 07:33
#!/bin/bash
# Configure systemd-boot
arch-chroot /mnt bootctl --path=/boot install
arch-chroot /mnt bootctl update
# pacman hook
mkdir -p /mnt/etc/pacman.d/hooks
cat > /mnt/etc/pacman.d/hooks/100-systemd-boot.hook << EOF
[Trigger]
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Swipe650 / Save vim file changes using sudo
Last active May 3, 2020 10:21
:w !sudo tee %
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Swipe650 / List recently installed packages
Last active April 26, 2020 21:41
# Since last upgrade
tac /var/log/pacman.log | sed -n '/full system upgrade/q;s/.*\[ALPM\] upgraded //p'
# Last 40 entries in pacman.log
expac --timefmt='%Y-%m-%d %T' '%l\t%n' | sort -hr | head -40
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Swipe650 / fstrim-fstab
Last active January 27, 2020 18:37
#!/bin/bash
# trim all supported mounted filesystems from /etc/fstab
sudo fstrim --fstab --verbose
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Swipe650 / Coloured PS1 Luke Smith style
Created April 5, 2019 16:55
export PS1="\[$(tput bold)\]\[$(tput setaf 1)\][\[$(tput setaf 3)\]\u\[$(tput setaf 2)\]@\[$(tput setaf 4)\]\h \[$(tput setaf 5)\]\W\[$(tput setaf 1)\]]\[$(tput setaf 7)\]\\$ \[$(tput sgr0)\]"
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Swipe650 / onair
Created August 16, 2018 19:32
#!/bin/bash
onair=$(curl -s https://www.lbc.co.uk | xmllint --html --nowarning --xpath '//section/div/span/a[1]/text()' - | tail -c 25)
echo $onair