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curl -s https://api.github.com/users/tuxcanfly/repos | jq -r 'map(select(.fork == false)) | map(.url) | map(sub("https://api.github.com/repos/"; "git clone [email protected]:")) | @sh' | xargs -n1 sh -c]
2018-03-23 01:05:29
User: tuxcanfly
Functions: sh xargs
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git clone all user repos
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for repo in `curl -s -u 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" 'https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/USER|jq -r .values[].links.self.href`; do curl -s -u 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' -X DELETE $repo;done
2018-03-21 22:34:28
User: gargolito
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delete all bitbucket repos via rest API v2 (req: jq and curl)

bitbucket paginates at around 1360 characters, so if you have several pages of repos in git hub you can just add "?page={1..4}" the url used to get all the repos.

you can also use -v for the deletion curl if you want to see the response from the server.

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findin() { find . -type f -name "*.$1" | xargs ack $2 }
2018-02-23 17:53:05
User: maurobaraldi
Functions: find xargs
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Find inside specific file type function
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find . -name "*.js" | xargs grep -oh '_\.[^(]*' | sort | uniq
2018-01-30 13:55:32
User: jemptymethod
Functions: find grep sort xargs
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Finds javascript lodash/underscore methods in source code

Finds javascript lodash/underscore methods in source code. It's not perfect as can be ascertained from the last entry in the output. Would be interested if somebody improves this.

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$file=(iwr -Uri ($(iwr "https://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp").Links |? {$_.href -ilike "*javadl*" } |? {$_.innerText -ilike "*x64 rpm*"}).href -Method Head -Max 0 -ErrorAction 0).Headers.Location; (($file -Split "/")[-1] -split "&")[0]
2018-01-24 22:27:59
User: jtypical
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Check the most recent version of Java JRE

Requires Powershell Core on Linux or Windows Powershell 3.0

Gets the filename of the latest x64 rpm available from java.com

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du --max-depth=1 -x -k | sort -n | awk 'function human(x) { s="KMGTEPYZ"; while (x>=1000 && length(s)>1) {x/=1024; s=substr(s,2)} return int(x+0.5) substr(s,1,1)"iB" } {gsub(/^[0-9]+/, human($1)); print}'
2018-01-24 21:33:27
User: bunam
Functions: awk du return sort
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List sub dir, sort by size, the biggest at the end, with human presentation

i'm using -x :

-x, --one-file-system

skip directories on different file systems

so mounts points aren't walked trough

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(((iwr "https://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp").Links | ? {$_.href -ilike "*javadl*"} | ? {$_.title -ilike "*x64 RPM"}).href)[0]
2018-01-24 21:22:09
User: bunam
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Get latest direct download URL for Java JRE

does it's better ?

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((iwr "https://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp").Links | ? {$_.href -ilike "*javadl*"} | ? {$_.innerText -ilike "*x64 RPM"}).href
2018-01-24 19:24:20
User: jtypical
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Get latest direct download URL for Java JRE

Requires Powershell Core on Linux or on Windows Powershell 3.0

Gets the direct url for the most recent version of Java JRE. The package is for 64-bit RPM-based systems.

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find $_SOURCE -type f -name '*' -exec mv {} $_DESTINATION \;
2018-01-24 18:49:11
User: jtypical
Functions: find mv
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mv argument list too long
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tail -F some_log_file.log | grep --line-buffered the_thing_i_want
2018-01-24 09:54:36
User: brx75x
Functions: grep tail
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Grep live log tailing
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tail -F some_log_file.log | grep the_thing_i_want
2018-01-23 23:21:23
User: stinkerweed999
Functions: grep tail
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Grep live log tailing, tracks file open/close

"-F" will continue tailing if file is closed and another file opened with same name. This is handy for tailing log files that segment while watching them without having to issue the command again.

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tail -f some_log_file.log | grep the_thing_i_want
2018-01-21 01:27:56
User: bugmenot
Functions: grep tail
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Grep live log tailing
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tail -f some_log_file.log | grep --line-buffered the_thing_i_want
2018-01-11 20:59:03
User: Trindaz
Functions: grep tail
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Grep live log tailing
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ffmpeg -f avfoundation -framerate 30 -video_size 1280x720 -pix_fmt uyvy422 -i "0" -c:v h264_videotoolbox -profile:v high -b:v 3M -color_range 1 /tmp/out.mp4
2018-01-08 10:28:42
User: sucotronic
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Capture video Macbook webcam with cpu accelerated

Captures video from webcam and encodes it using the accelerated hardware provided by videotoolbox framework. It takes about 20% cpu in a i5 2015 macbook air.

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find . -mtime +30 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;
2018-01-08 01:43:40
User: zluyuer
Functions: find rm
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remove files that were modified 30 days ago
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curl -sS --remote-name-all $(curl -sS https://api.github.com/gists/997ccc3690ccd3ac5196211aff59d989 | jq -r '.files[].raw_url')
2018-01-03 19:45:59
User: jaytaylor
Tags: gist
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Download all files from a Github gist individually

Downloads each file from a github gist individually.

Requires jq ( https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ).

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[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] = 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root / || echo "Click"
2017-12-31 01:46:13
User: mogoh
Functions: echo rm
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Command-line russian roulette
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[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] = 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "Click"
2017-12-30 22:19:45
User: malathion
Functions: echo rm
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Command-line russian roulette
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docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
2017-12-26 13:55:41
User: tsener
Functions: ps
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Stop all running docker containers

passin list of docker container IDs to docker stop

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for f in `find . -type d`; do pushd . > /dev/null ; echo -e `cd $f ; find . -name \*\.js | wc -l` "\t" $f | grep -v ^0 ; popd >/dev/null; done | sort -n -k 1 -r | less
2017-12-19 09:08:04
User: tobi
Functions: echo find grep sort wc
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Count number of javascript files in subdirectories

I wanted to count and display the top directories containing JavaScript files in some of my project. Here it is. Maybe it can be written to more simply syntax by using find -exec...

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cat configmap.json | jq 'with_entries(if .key == "data" then .value=(.value | to_entries | map( { (.key): (.value|@base64) } ) | add ) elif .key == "kind" then .value="Secret" else . end)'
2017-12-11 19:18:25
User: tyzbit
Functions: cat
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Convert Kubernetes ConfigMaps to Secrets

simple jq one-liner to convert from configmaps to secrets (which require the values to be base64 encoded).

To automatically pull the config map, convert it, and re-upload the corresponding secret:

kubectl get --export -o json cm [configmap name] | jq 'with_entries(if .key == "data" then .value=(.value | to_entries | map( { (.key): (.value|@base64) } ) | add ) elif .key == "kind" then .value="Secret" else . end)' > secret.json; kubectl create -f secret.json

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git branch -a | grep "remotes/origin" | grep -v master | sed 's/^[ *]*//' | sed 's/remotes\/origin\///' | head -n10 | sed 's/^/git push origin :/' | bash
2017-12-05 17:30:29
User: Trindaz
Functions: grep head sed
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Delete first 10 branches from remote origin (exclude master)
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AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="sa-east-1" jungle ec2 ls | grep midas | sort | cut -f4 | xargs -I {} ssh [email protected]{} sudo apt-get install ntp -y
2017-11-22 19:20:08
User: xymor
Functions: cut grep install ls sort ssh sudo xargs
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When you realise your AMI doesn't come with NTP
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ps aux | grep -v name_you_want_to_hide
2017-11-21 04:22:12
User: hugoeustaquio
Functions: grep ps
Tags: exec ps process table
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Hide the name of a process listed in the `ps` output

The classical 'ps aux | grep' can do this with one more parameter, the '-v', with means 'NOT' to grep.

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exec -a "$(ps -fea | awk '{print $8}'| sort -R | head -n1)" your_command -sw1 -sw2
2017-11-19 04:36:24
User: pulketo
Functions: exec
Tags: exec ps process table
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Hide the name of a process listed in the `ps` output

Hides the process "your_command" from showing with ps, displaying some other random process name already running for a better camouflage.

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