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Have a list of directories in a file, ending with newlines and need to run du on it?

du only accepts lines ending with a NUL, which can be a pain to create. This solves that issue.
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cat filename | tr '\n' '\0' | du -hsc ?files0-from=-

Diluted · 2009-08-21 18:36:49 4
YES = NO
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-3

yes | tr 'y' 'n'

Diluted · 2009-08-21 18:34:52 4
follow the content of all files in a directory

The `-q' arg forces tail to not output the name of the current file
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1

find dir/ -type f | xargs tail -fqn0

chickenzilla · 2009-08-21 18:05:12 4
Download all Phrack .tar.gzs
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curl http://www.phrack.org/archives/tgz/phrack[1-67].tar.gz -o phrack#1.tar.gz

amaymon · 2009-08-21 10:14:25 6
Show GCC-generated optimization commands when using the "-march=native" or "-mtune=native" switches for compilation.

You can tell GCC to automatically select optimization commands and produce optimized code for the local machine (the one compiling the code), but you can't normally see what switches have been selected and used unless you append a "-v" and pause compilation. Show Sample Output
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```
This is the output on my AMD Athlon64 X2:

/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.3/cc1 -E -quiet -v - -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -march=k8-sse3 -mcx16 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=64 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 -mtune=k8
```
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cc -march=native -E -v - </dev/null 2>&1 | grep cc1

manny79 · 2009-08-21 09:47:37 11
how long system has been running
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-13

uptime

markoval · 2009-08-21 07:22:21 5
View Processeses like a fu, fu

Shows a less detailed output, made only of the process tree and their pids.
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pstree -p

Octave · 2009-08-20 23:31:30 3
Download all Phrack .tar.gzs

This will download all the phracks! Enjoy!
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for ((i=1; i<67; i++)) do wget http://www.phrack.org/archives/tgz/phrack${i}.tar.gz -q; done

Abiden · 2009-08-20 23:27:01 6
Not a kismet replacement...

If you're like some individuals who rely on ndiswrapper and cannot use kismet, this command may be of service. watch -n .5 "iwlist wlan0 scan | egrep 'ESSID|Encryption'" Or... watch -n .5 "iwlist wlan0 scan | egrep 'ESSID|Encryption' | egrep 'linksys'" :-) Hopefully you'll find some dd-wrt compatible routers.
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watch -n .5 "iwlist wlan0 scan"

Abiden · 2009-08-20 23:05:04 3
clear the cache from memory
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sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

lunarblu · 2009-08-20 17:28:56 7
Visit another command line gōngfu site

Today I learned that commandlinefu.com is not a alone in its conquest for further the knowledge about the command line. Allow me to introduce you to http://shell-fu.org/
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lynx http://shell-fu.org/

penpen · 2009-08-20 11:47:35 5
for all who don't have the watch command
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watch() { t=$1; shift; while test :; do clear; date=$(date); echo -e "Every "$t"s: $@ \t\t\t\t $date"; $@; sleep $t; done }

yaccovs · 2009-08-19 19:55:55 3
Schedule a script or command in x num hours, silently run in the background even if logged out

doesn't require "at", change the "2h" to whatever you want... (deafult unit for sleep is seconds)
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( ( sleep 2h; your-command your-args ) & )

sitaram · 2009-08-19 17:39:11 12
for all who don't have the watch command

#Usage: watch timeinsecond "command" Show Sample Output
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```
Every 3s: ls 				 Mi 19 Aug 2009 17:27:24 CEST
file1
file2
file3
...
```
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watch() { while test :; do clear; date=$(date); echo -e "Every "$1"s: $2 \t\t\t\t $date"; $2; sleep $1; done }

peshay · 2009-08-19 15:29:00 3
Save iptables firewall info

Stores the currently active iptables rules to a file that will be applied upon reboot
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sudo iptables-save > /etc/iptables.up.rules

kamiller · 2009-08-19 14:55:05 4
Update iptables firewall with a temp ruleset

If you don't save the rule set it won't be applied during a reboot
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sudo iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.test.rules

kamiller · 2009-08-19 14:38:08 4
Watch mysql processlist on a remote host

Locally watch MySQL process list update every 5s on a remote host. While you watch pipe to a file. The file out put is messy though but hey at least you have a history of what you see.
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watch -n 0.5 ssh [user]@[host] mysqladmin -u [mysql_user] -p[password] processlist | tee -a /to/a/file

lunarblu · 2009-08-19 14:21:27 6
Emptying a text file in one shot in VIM
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:!>test.txt

amaymon · 2009-08-19 13:45:23 4
Emulate sleep in DOS/BAT

Enable 'sleep' function in Windows environment where this does not exist, although not exact in time. (there is a delay for each ping) This is a simple way to separate commands with a time-period. Show Sample Output
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```
sleep() begins: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
sleep() end: 15:37:49,76
```
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echo sleep() begins: %TIME% && FOR /l %a IN (10,-1,1) do (ECHO 1 >NUL %as&ping -n 2 -w 1 127.0.0.1>NUL) && echo sleep() end: %TIME%

pfredrik · 2009-08-19 13:43:09 3
Find UTF-8 text files misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 due to Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

Character: "?" is the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard. Specifically it is the hex bytes EF BB BF, which form the UTF-8 representation of the BOM, misinterpreted as ISO 8859/1 text instead of UTF-8. Show Sample Output
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```
..list of files containing "BOM".
```
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find . -type f | grep -rl $'\xEF\xBB\xBF'

pfredrik · 2009-08-19 13:27:09 3
Remove CR from Windows- / DOS-textfiles
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dos2unix file.txt

sklm · 2009-08-19 13:23:48 3

Remove ^M characters at end of lines in vi

Whereas ^V is CTRL-V. converts a dos file to unix by removing 0x13 characters Show Sample Output

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:%s/^V^M//g

slim · 2009-08-19 11:59:22 4

Emptying a text file in one shot

deletes to the end of the buffer Show Sample Output
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```
~
```
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ggdG

slim · 2009-08-19 11:40:55 3
Search for an active process without catching the search-process

This does the same thing as many of the 'grep' based alternatives but allows a more finite control over the output. For example if you only wanted the process ID you could change the command: ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}' If you wanted to kill the returned PID's: ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}' | xargs -i kill {} Show Sample Output
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```
$ ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print}'
root      4976     1  0 Jul01 tty1     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1
root      4977     1  0 Jul01 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root      4978     1  0 Jul01 tty3     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root      4979     1  0 Jul01 tty4     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root      4980     1  0 Jul01 tty5     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root      4981     1  0 Jul01 tty6     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
```
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ps -ef | awk '/process-name/ && !/awk/ {print}'

dopeman · 2009-08-19 11:22:09 3
Watch changeable interrupts continuously
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watch -n1 'cat /proc/interrupts

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-19 11:10:55 3
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return external ip

I dont have curl or links installed, so I use wget with write file as standard out.

Find all videos under current directory

Uses mime-type of files rather than relying on file extensions to find files of a certain type. This can obviously be extended to finding files of any other type as well.. like plain text files, audio, etc.. In reference to displaying the total hours of video (which was earlier posted in command line fu, but relied on the user having to supply all possible video file formats) we can now do better: $ find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -iNf - | grep video | cut -d: -f1 | xargs -d'\n' /usr/share/doc/mplayer/examples/midentify | grep ID_LENGTH | awk -F "=" '{sum += $2} END {print sum/60/60; print "hours"}'

Display condensed log in a tree-like format.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Create a directory and go inside it

$_ expands to the last argument of the last command that was executed

Convert PDF to JPG

(relies on 'imagemagick') This command will convert all .pdf files in a directory into a 800px (wide or height, whichever is smaller) image (with the aspect ratio kept) .jpg. If the file is named 'example1.pdf' it will be named 'example1.jpg' when it is complete. This is a VERY worthwhile command! People pay hundreds of dollars for this in the Windows world. My .jpg files average between 150kB to 300kB, but your's may differ.

Create a local compressed tarball from remote host directory

This improves on #9892 by compressing the directory on the remote machine so that the amount of data transferred over the network is much smaller. The command uses ssh(1) to get to a remote host, uses tar(1) to archive and compress a remote directory, prints the result to STDOUT, which is written to a local file. In other words, we are archiving and compressing a remote directory to our local box.

Change your timezone

creeate file named after actual date

Create a file with actual date as filename

ignore .DS_Store forever in GIT

With a couple of little commands, you?ll be able to ignore the .DS_Store files forever from your git repositories on mac! The following command will add the .gitignore file to the git configuration git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore then, the following, will add the .DS_Store to the list echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore

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