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2cut -f N- file.dat
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Traces the system calls of a program. See http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/05/strace-very-powerful-troubleshooting.html for more information.
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This command will print all fields from the given input to the end of each line, starting with the Nth field.
0awk '{print substr($0, index($0,$N))}' -
This has helped me numerous times trying to find either log files or tmp files that get created after execution of a command. And really eye opening as to how active a given process really is. Play around with -anewer, -cnewer & -newerXY Show Sample Output
22touch /tmp/file ; $EXECUTECOMMAND ; find /path -newer /tmp/file -
xargs can be used in this manner to download multiple files at a time, and xargs will in this case run 10 processes at a time and initiate a new one when the number running falls below 10. Show Sample Output
11wget -nv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux -O- | egrep -o "http://[^[:space:]]*.jpg" | xargs -P 10 -r -n 1 wget -nv -
dsh - Distributed shell, or dancer?s shell ;-) you can put your servers into /etc/dsh/machines.list than you don't have to serperate them by commata or group them in different files and only run commands for this groups dsh -M -c -a -- "apt-get update" Show Sample Output
4dsh -M -c -f servers -- "command HERE" -
-1scutil --dns
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Same as: 1 rpm -ivh package.rpm 2 yum localinstall package.rpm 3 Edit /etc/yum.conf or repository.repo and change the value of gpgcheck from 1 to 0 (!dangerous)
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3awk '{print $1}' /var/log/httpd/access_log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rnk1 | head -n 10
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-1httpd -S
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Instead of using: 0,15,30,45 * * * * /path/to/command
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for mousevents, move the mouse over the window and click/move etc. usefull for getting mouseKeys, or keyKeys. also usefull for checking if X gets those mouse-events.
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If the site uses https, use:
wget --reject html,htm --accept pdf,zip -rl1 --no-check-certificate https-url17wget --reject html,htm --accept pdf,zip -rl1 url -
1gpg --search-keys
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to convert a whole directory, put all mp3 files in a for loop
for i in $(ls *mp3); do mpg123 -s $i | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o ${i%mp3}m4b -; done1mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o output.m4b - -
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. rkhunter is a shell script which carries out various checks on the local system to try and detect known rootkits and malware. It also performs checks to see if commands have been modified, if the system startup files have been modified, and various checks on the network interfaces, including checks for listening applications.
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chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit,Get it from the website http://www.chkrootkit.org
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1curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=http://<website.url>/ | sed -n 's/.*\(http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p' | uniq
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you can also run "xmms2 pause & at now +5min
2xmms2 pause && echo "xmms2 play" | at now +5min -
2sw_vers
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grab the weather, with a little expletive fun. replace the 48104 with a US zipcode, or the name of your city (such as ZIP="oslo"), unless you want to know what the weather is like for me (and that's fine too) Show Sample Output
1ZIP=48104; curl http://thefuckingweather.com/?zipcode=$ZIP 2>/dev/null|grep -A1 'div class="large"'|tr '\n' ' '|sed 's/^.*"large" >\(..\)/\1/;s/&d.* <br \/>/ - /;s/<br \/>//;s/<\/div.*$//' -
To get information at your fingertips about Apache compilation. Show Sample Output
-1httpd2 -V -
Like many other thing in Linux ,you can see the same thing in different way. Show Sample Output
1ip addr show -
This is a handy way to find which modules are loaded with Apache web server. Show Sample Output
-1httpd2 -M - ‹ First < 455 456 457 458 459 > Last ›
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