#pbpaste

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Extract columns from tables

…like the ones you get on Wikipedia Each column in the table is tab-delineated when you copy and paste it as plain text. Just change the "$2" to "$ whatever column you want to extract" and this one-liner will tidy up whatever's copied into your clipboard for you.

pbpaste | awk 'BEGIN{ FS="\t";}{print $2}' | pbcopy

[esaruoho]

Selection of Screen to URL on Server to Clipboard

Use Alfred.app and install this attached AlfredExtension.

After installing, you are presented with this:

To break this down, there are really just four things to do  in this method of getting a selected screen estate on your server and on your clipboard as a direct, pasteable URL:

Use screencapture to capture a selection with -is. Tell it where to save the resultant screenshot and finish the path with {query} (Alfred passes this from the Alfred toolbar)

Use scp to send the resultant file to your server

Use echo to print out the resultant URL, (server/{query}), copy it to clipboard with pbcopy

And finally, optionally, either use rm to permanently delete the image from your folder of choice, or keep it commented away in the extension  by leaving the --  in place.

Adjust the user/server -names accordingly. I run it via 'ul imagenameIwant.png', f.ex.

scp will not work unless you have your ssh2 authorized keys generated for your host and for your own computer. If, however, you already are chummy with SSH/SCP and SSH2Keys, you're set for a quick way of using Alfred to upload selected screenshots to your server and place the direct URL to your clipboard. I use a combination of this and Skitch nowadays.

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Count occurrences of each word in the paste buffer

Count how many times each word crops up in the paste buffer

pbpaste|perl -pe 's/\W+/\n/g'|awk '{IGNORECASE=1;c[$1]++}END{for(j in c) print j,c[j]}'