On one of my servers, I created a subdomain called “uploads,” serving as a temporary spot for files I want to share or transfer. However, this directory keeps expanding uncontrollably. To manage it, I wrote a Bash script that will run directly or as a cron job to remove files that have overstayed their welcome, specified in the script in days.
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Extract subtitles from a movie file and save it as an .srt file using Bash
The film industry in Germany is definitely not Hollywood, but every now and then, there’s a movie that’s worth watching, e.g., “Glauben” (English: “The Allegation”) or “Terror” (“The Verdict”), both by the writer and lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach—that my non-German wife doesn’t understand.
Luckily, the German media libraries of public broadcast channels come with subtitles—in German, but those can be translated easily online if you extract the
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Simple Bash function to use md5sum for string input
Using macOS for most of my work, if I want to retrieve the hash of a string, macOS provides an easy
md5function, located under/sbin/md5and callable in any terminal:$ md5 -s 'Hey md5!'Linux does things a little differently, but with a single line in Bash, you can keep the easy macOS syntax.
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