Tool Incantations

My memory isn’t what it used to be… I find myself having to go back to man pages a lot more frequently to figure out how I did something last time, and my .zhistory is a pain to search through. So these are some interesting commands I’ve run that I may want to run a variant of again in the future. This is probably of less than no use to anyone but me.

• mencoder The\ Ten\ O\’Clock\ News\ -\ , 1 2007\,\ 10–00\ PM.mpg -oac copy -ovc copy -aspect 4:3 -ss 1800 -endpos 375 -o micah-raw.mpg
• mencoder The\ Ten\ O\’Clock\ News\ -\ , 1 2007\,\ 10–00\ PM.mpg -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -ovc lavc -aspect 4:3 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=800 -vop scale=360:−2 -sws 2 -ss 1800 -endpos 375 -o micah.avi
• sudo qmail-dequeue MAILER-DAEMON@widget.gizmolabs.org
• sudo /opt/local/bin/bbackupquery “compare -aq” quit
• setforward .aliases-domainorg.cdb foo < .aliases-domainorg
• ~/bin/vobcopy -m -o . -v -i /mnt/
• v4l2-ctl -i 2 && cat /dev/video0 > composite_video.mpg
• sudo dpkg -i —force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/something.deb
• dscacheutil -flushcache