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man xkill
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A very interesting man page!
-7man ettercap -
There weren't any one liners for ettercap on this site... tisk tisk :-) (of course you'll have to plugin your own values for the variables..)
1ettercap -i ${interface} -P ${plugin} -Tq -M ARP:REMOTE // // -m ${PurloinedData}.log -
Contrary to logic, typing calendar won't show a calendar, that's the job of cal. Typing calendar will show some trivia related to the current date. Tested against many Linux distros and FreeBSD. Show Sample Output
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This function takes a word or a phrase as arguments and then fetches definitions using Google's "define" syntax. The "nl" and perl portion isn't strictly necessary. It just makes the output a bit more readable, but this also works:
define(){ local y="$@";curl -sA"Opera" "http://www.google.com/search?q=define:${y// /+}"|grep -Po '(?<=<li>)[^<]+';}If your version of grep doesn't have perl compatible regex support, then you can use this version:define(){ local y="$@";curl -sA"Opera" "http://www.google.com/search?q=define:${y// /+}"|grep -Eo '<li>[^<]+'|sed 's/<li>//g'|nl|perl -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_)' 2>/dev/null;}Show Sample Output18define(){ local y="$@";curl -sA"Opera" "http://www.google.com/search?q=define:${y// /+}"|grep -Po '(?<=<li>)[^<]+'|nl|perl -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_)' 2>/dev/null;} -
Takes two input video files and an external audio track and encodes them together to an MPEG-4 DivX output video file with the correct size ready for uploading.
3mencoder -audiofile input.mp3 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -ffourcc xvid -vf scale=320:240,harddup input1.avi input2.avi -o output.avi -
15ruler() { for s in '....^....|' '1234567890'; do w=${#s}; str=$( for (( i=1; $i<=$(( ($COLUMNS + $w) / $w )) ; i=$i+1 )); do echo -n $s; done ); str=$(echo $str | cut -c -$COLUMNS) ; echo $str; done; }
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1for i in `lanscan -i | awk '{print $1}'` ; do ifconfig $i ; done
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HP UX doesn't have a -a switch in the ifconfig command. This line emulates the same result shown in Solaris, AIX or Linux Show Sample Output
-5for i in `netstat -rn |grep lan |cut -c55-60 |sort |uniq`; do ifconfig $i; done -
An easter-egg from emacs. Show Sample Output
0emacs <ESC+x> doctor -
1sed -i 's/^\(somestring\)/#\1/' somefile.cfg
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Comment out all lines in a file with "somestring" in the beginning. Sed -i is used for in place edits. Useful if you need to comment out lines beginning with somestring
0sed -i '/^somestring/ s/^/#/' somefile.cfg -
The loop is to compare cookies. You can remove it... Maybe you wanna use curl...
curl www.commandlinefu.com/index.php -s0 -I | grep "Set-Cookie"3a="www.commandlinefu.com";b="/index.php";for n in $(seq 1 7);do echo -en "GET $b HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: "$a"\r\n\r\n" |nc $a 80 2>&1 |grep Set-Cookie;done -
If a directory name contains space xargs will do the wrong thing. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ deals better with that. Show Sample Output
-2du -s * | sort -nr | head | cut -f2 | parallel -k du -sh -
This deals nicely with files having special characters in the file name (space ' or "). Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/
-3tar -zcvpf backup_`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`.tar.gz `find <target> -atime +5 -type f` 2> /dev/null | parallel -X rm -f -
xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
-1ls -t1 | sed 1d | parallel -X rm -
The difference between this and the other alternatives here using only grep is that find will, by default, not follow a symlink. In some cases, this is definitely desirable. Using find also allows you to exclude certain files, eg
find directory/ ! -name "*.tmp" -exec grep -ni phrase {} +would allow you to exclude any files .tmp files. Also note that there's no need for calling grep recursively, as find passes each found file to grep.0find directory/ -exec grep -ni phrase {} + -
0ipcs -a | grep 0x | awk '{printf( "-Q %s ", $1 )}' | xargs ipcrm
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xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). In this case if you have a file called '12" record'. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem. Both solutions work bad if the number of files is more than the allowed line length of the shell.
-2svn st | cut -c 9- | parallel -X tar -czvf ../backup.tgz -
With the force options the same results can be achieved Show Sample Output
2svn add . --force -
This version makes uses of Bash shell expansion, so it might not work in all other shells.
0svn add $(svn st|grep ^\?|cut -c2-) -
Improvement of the command "Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)" when searching for duplicate files in a directory containing a subversion working copy. This way the (multiple dupicates) in the meta-information directories are ignored. Can easily be adopted for other VCS as well. For CVS i.e. change ".svn" into ".csv":
find -type d -name ".csv" -prune -o -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type d -name ".csv" -prune -o -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separateShow Sample Output2find -type d -name ".svn" -prune -o -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type d -name ".svn" -prune -o -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate -
xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
-2svn status |grep '\?' |awk '{print $2}'| parallel -Xj1 svn add -
xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
4grep -rl oldstring . | parallel sed -i -e 's/oldstring/newstring/' -
A bit shorter and parallelized. Depending on the speed of your cpu and your disk this may run faster. Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/
0find -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort | uniq -d | parallel find -type f -size {}c | parallel md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate - ‹ First < 404 405 406 407 408 > Last ›
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