Lifesaving snippets

Some snippets that make my life easier.

I’m creating this post mostly for myself so I don’t have to remember all the specifics, if someone else finds it helpful – even better.

cUrl a SOAP service:

curl "https://www.example.com/Service.svc" -H "SOAPAction: ""urn:service.example.com/IService/PresentationGet""" --data-binary @post.txt --comcodessed -k -D responseHeaders.txt -v -o response.txt

(optional headers)

-H "Pragma: no-cache" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" -H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8" -H "Accept: application/xml, text/xml, */*; q=0.01" -H "Cache-Control: no-cache"

https://keybase.io/

nslookup www.bjelic.net 8.8.8.8

*nix / Mac

delete a folder with contents:

rm -rf [folder]

Create a “soft” symbolic link to a folder:

ln -s /path/to/original/ /path/to/link

Simple python based http server in the current folder:

python -m http.server 8000

The same as above with Python 2:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

OpenSSL encrypt / decrypt:

openssl des3 -in file.txt -out encrypted.txt
openssl des3 -d -in encrypted.txt -out normal.txt

File character garbage cleanup:

tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' < 'original.csv' > 'cleaned.csv'

Start Apache

sudo apachectl start

Zip with password

zip -er archive.zip *.*

Tasks:

jobs -l

kill 861

kill `jobs -p`

Switch to stopped task:

fg [%n]

Powershell

curl like

Invoke-WebRequest https://www.example.com/hello-world.html http://proxy.int:8080 -TimeoutSec 10

(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(“http://www.example.com/hello-world.html”)

create guid

[guid]::NewGuid()

touch

(ls testFile.txt).LastWriteTime = Get-Date

Windows

echo %USERPROFILE%

%ALLUSERSPROFILE% %APPDATA% %CD% (current folder) %DATE% %COMPUTERNAME% %CMDEXTVERSION% %RANDOM% %TIME% %USERDOMAIN% %USERNAME% %USERPROFILE% %WINDIR%

Excel

Placing

sep=<delimiter>

as the first line of a csv file will automatically tell Excel to use that character as the separator instead of the default comma.