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find . -regex "[^.]*" -depth -empty -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -v {} \;
2009-03-24 15:41:29
User: piemme
Functions: find rmdir
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Delete empty, 24-hours-old directories recursively, without consider hidden directories
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rdate -s time-A.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov
2009-03-24 15:37:51
User: Anonecho
Functions: rdate
-4
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set the system date
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bvi [binary-file]
2009-03-24 15:30:50
User: haivu
Tags: edit
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Binary editor

bvi is your vi for binary editing. If your system does not have it, you can get it from

http://bvi.sourceforge.net/

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find / -nouser -o -nogroup -print
2009-03-24 15:24:05
User: puddleglum
Functions: find
0
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list files not owned by any user or group

tested in csh on solaris.

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perl -e 'print "Hello World!", "\n";'
2009-03-24 14:58:01
User: netp
Functions: perl
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hello Command-line-fu

hello

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for dir in $(ls); do du -sk ${dir}; done
2009-03-24 13:42:55
User: morlockhq_
Functions: dir du
Tags: bash du directories directory
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do a directory disk usage summary without giving the details for the subdirectories

Sometimes you want to know the summary of the sizes of directories without seeing the details in their subdirectories. Especially if it is going to just scroll off the screen. This one liner summarizes the disk usage of any number of directories in a directory without giving all the details of whats happening underneath.

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find -iname '*.flac' | sed 's:/[^/]*$::' | uniq
2009-03-24 13:26:31
User: ar
Functions: find sed
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List your FLAC albums

Run this in your music folder, or give the path directly after "find".

The sed pattern filters away the basename.

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xvidcap --file filename.mpeg --fps 15 --cap_geometry 1680x1050+0+0 --rescale 25 --time 200.0 --start_no 0 --continue yes --gui no --auto
2009-03-24 08:49:15
User: tristan_ph
Functions: yes
Tags: xvidcap compiz
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Record your desktop

That will capture 200 seconds of video at fullscreen 1680x1050 resolution, but scaled down 25 percent, with 15 frames per second.

http://fusioncast.blogspot.com/2007/09/infobyte-how-i-record-my-desktop.html

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cat schema.sql data.sql test_data.sql | mysql -u user --password=pass dbname
2009-03-24 08:39:40
User: tristan_ph
Functions: cat
Tags: mysql cat
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Load multiple sql script in mysql

Be aware of using the --password argument as it will appear your password in plain text on the screen. You may use -p argument instead, it will prompt you to enter you password in hidden mode.

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curl http://domain.com/file.tar.gz | tar zx
2009-03-24 04:41:09
User: mkoga
Functions: tar
Tags: curl
2
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Download and extract a *tar.gz file with curl.
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for i in $(pgrep -v -u root);do kill -9 $i;done
2009-03-24 02:54:52
User: lostnhell
Functions: kill
Tags: bash Linux kill logoff pgrep
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Kill all processes that don't belong to root/force logoff

explanation:

grep -- displays process ids

-v -- negates the matching, displays all but what is specified in the other options

-u -- specifies the user to display, or in this case negate

The process loops through all PIDs that are found by pgrep, then orders a forced kill to the processes in numerical order, effectively killing the parent processes first including the shells in use which will force the users to logout.

Tested on Slackware Linux 12.2 and Slackware-current

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for f in `jot - 0 50 5` ; do ping -c 1 -m 50 10.0.2.$f ; done
2009-03-23 23:51:18
User: chinkshady
Functions: ping
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sequence of numbers in a for loop

Say you need to ping every 5th IP address on your network .. this will give you a way of doing that.

jot can also do counting ... like

jot 4

1

2

3

4

download from http://oreilly.com/catalog/upt2/examples/#jot or fins athena-jot in rpm format

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while true; do date; sleep 1; done
2009-03-23 22:44:59
User: cbetts
Functions: sleep
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Display an updating clock in sh variants

Handy if all you have is a console session or tty.

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nmap 192.168.0-1.0-255 -sP
2009-03-23 22:19:05
User: clockworkavian
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Show all machines on the network

Depending on the network setup, you may not get the hostname.

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find ./ -mtime -5 | xargs rm -f
2009-03-23 21:00:45
User: skye
Functions: find rm xargs
Tags: delete
-5
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Delete all files in current directory that have been modified less than 5 days ago.
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curl -Is slashdot.org | egrep '^X-(F|B|L)' | cut -d \- -f 2
2009-03-23 19:58:10
User: icco
Functions: cut egrep
Tags: egrep futurama curl
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Gets a random Futurama quote from /.
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fuser -nu tcp 3691
2009-03-23 19:40:34
User: servermanaged
Functions: fuser
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Display which user run process from given port name

Display which user run process from given port name

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lsof -P | grep ':3000'
2009-03-23 18:41:24
User: thisduck
Functions: grep
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find the process that is using a certain port e.g. port 3000
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cp --parents /source/file /target-dir
2009-03-23 18:35:15
User: bitmage
Functions: cp
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copy/mkdir and automatically create parent directories

The --parents option will cause cp or mkdir to automatically create the parent directory structure.

mkdir --parents /one/two/three/dir

will create /one, /one/two, and /one/two/three as needed before creating dir. cp will copy files with their full directory structure into the target directory with this option.

Thanks to Peter Leung at:

http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2007/11/use-of-parents-flag-in-mkdir-and-c.html

which has good examples of usage.

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kill -9 `ps -u <username> -o "pid="`
2009-03-23 17:51:37
User: skye
Functions: kill
5
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Kill all processes beloging to a single user.
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kill -9 $(pidof process)
2009-03-23 17:07:55
User: luisuribe
Functions: kill pidof
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Kills all processes for a certain program
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CTRL + e
2009-03-23 16:42:10
User: hardest
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Go to end of current command line
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CTRL + a
2009-03-23 16:41:04
User: hardest
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Go to begin of current command line

Go to begin of the current command line.

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for i in `find . | grep jar$`; do echo $i; jar tvf $i | grep 'search-string'; done;
2009-03-23 16:18:26
User: thisduck
Functions: echo grep
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find a class or file within a number of jar files
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ps aux | grep 'httpd ' | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9
2009-03-23 16:15:06
User: thisduck
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
Tags: kill
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kills all processes for a certain program e.g. httpd
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