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detect the Super I/O chip on your computer, tell you at which configuration port it is located and can dump all the register contents.
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superiotool

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-16 02:30:22 4
parses the BIOS memory and prints information about all structures (or entry points) it knows of.
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biosdecode

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-16 02:28:00 14
x86info

specific information about your intel CPUs in your system and their features
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x86info

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-16 02:19:39 3
get basic information out of your computer
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lspci

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-16 02:01:58 3
Edit Crontab
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crontab -e

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-16 01:20:42 4
Emulate perl 'print "#" x 20, "\n"'
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0

printf '%*s\n' 20 | tr ' ' '#'

twfcc · 2009-08-15 22:38:01 3
avi to ogv (Ogg Theora)

Requirements: ffmpeg2theora (http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/)
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ffmpeg2theora input.avi

chutsu · 2009-08-15 19:58:07 3
Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

Get the PID of a process by name Show Sample Output
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```
4234
```
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pgrep command_name

dstahlke · 2009-08-15 17:03:57 8
Shrink more than one blank lines to one in VIM.
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2

:%v/./,/./-j

satyavvd · 2009-08-15 15:02:20 6
formatting number with comma

it is not work with Cygwin's bash3.X. Test in Linux. use printf "%'f" number while it is floating point number Show Sample Output
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```
1,234,567
```
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printf "%'d\n" 1234567

twfcc · 2009-08-15 14:48:56 5
An easter egg built into python to give you the Zen of Python
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python -c 'import this'

cofi · 2009-08-15 10:31:21 23
An easter egg built into python to give you the Zen of Python

Very very cool list of quotations and directives on pythonic programming. I love them and they are sure applicable in C++ too, and for most any programming, really.
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echo "import this" | python

loquitus · 2009-08-15 09:42:36 4
Extract dd-image from VirtualBox VDI container and mount it

Tested with NTFS and found on this site: http://forensicir.blogspot.com/2008/01/virtualbox-and-forensics-tools.html The first 32256 bytes is the MBR
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7

vditool COPYDD my.vdi my.dd ; sudo mount -t ntfs -o ro,noatime,noexex,loop,offset=32256 my.dd ./my_dir

Cowboy · 2009-08-14 21:33:43 9
checks if host /service is up on a host that doesn't respond to ping

the command for the impatient sysadmin: simply checks every five secs, if a host or a specific service running on it is up. ideal for hosts that are configured not to respond on pings. Show Sample Output
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```
Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-08-14 22:14 CEST
Interesting ports on 192.168.0.1:
PORT   STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open  http
```
0

while true; do clear; nmap ${hostname} -PN -p ${hostport}; sleep 5; done

flokra · 2009-08-14 20:19:59 3
Will email user@example.com when all Rsync processes have finished.

This will email user@example.com a message with the body: "rsync done" when there are no processes of rsync running. This can be changed for other uses by changing $(pgrep rsync) to something else, and echo "rsync done" | mailx user@example.com to another command.
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$(while [ ! -z "$(pgrep rsync)" ]; do echo; done; echo "rsync done" | mailx user@example.com) > /dev/null &

matthewbauer · 2009-08-14 19:46:59 4
add a backup (or any other) suffix to a file

Very helpful when you've got complex filenames and needs to change just some small parts of it. Renaming a file called "i-made-a-small-typo-right-here" to "i-made-a-big-typo-right-here": mv -vi i-made-a-{small,big}-typo-right-here You could also copy multiple files, edit, remove, process, etc. Show Sample Output
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```
$ mv -vi file{,~}
`file' -> `file~'
$ 
```
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mv -vi file{,~}

fsilveira · 2009-08-14 19:29:59 4
Have netcat listening on your ports and use telnet to test connection

This will start a netcat process listening on port 666. If you are able connect to your your server, netcat will receive the data being sent and spit it out to the screen (it may look like random garbage, so you might want to redirect it to a file).
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SERVER: nc -l p 666 CLIENT: telnet -l -p 666

Cowboy · 2009-08-14 17:01:57 5
make 100 directories with leading zero, 001...100, using bash3.X

no external commands, but can only do 0-99, not 1-100, so we adjust it later Show Sample Output
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```
 
```
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mkdir 0{0..9}{0..9};mv 000 100

sitaram · 2009-08-14 16:33:20 7
return external ip

alternative using 'host' Show Sample Output
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```
67.207.139.81
```
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host -t a dartsclink.com | sed 's/.*has address //'

dartsclink · 2009-08-14 16:11:18 13
Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

preferred way to query ps for a specific process name (not supported with all flavors of ps, but will work on just about any linux afaik) Show Sample Output
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```
ion@atomos:~$ ps -C ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
14524 pts/1    00:00:00 ps

ion@atomos:~$ ps -fC ps
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
ion      14544 13940  0 11:23 pts/1    00:00:00 ps -fC ps
```
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ps -C command

recursiverse · 2009-08-14 15:30:42 6
Generate a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/ You'll first need to install the uuid package. Available immediately from apt in Ubuntu, Debian, or other myriad Debian variants. You could always compile it from source as well. Show Sample Output
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```
bfcca18a-8857-11de-bdc3-0024e80e2d83
```
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uuid

linuxrawkstar · 2009-08-14 14:02:37 7
Searches $PATH for files using grep

Best to put it in a file somewhere in your path. (I call the file spath) #!/bin/bash IFS=:; find $PATH | grep $1 Usage: $ spath php Show Sample Output
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```
$ IFS=:; find $PATH | grep php
/usr/bin/php
/usr/bin/php5
/usr/bin/phpdoc
/usr/bin/phpuc
/usr/bin/phpcs
/usr/bin/phpunit
```
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IFS=:; find $PATH | grep pattern

camspiers · 2009-08-14 13:38:58 10
Lists the size of certain file in every 10 seconds

watch is a command especially designed for doing this job
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watch -n 10 'du -sk testfile'

ianux · 2009-08-14 12:35:21 3
Lists the size of certain file in every 10 seconds

This command produces the output of "du -sk testfile" in every 10 seconds. You can change the command to be whatever you want.
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while true ; do du -sk testfile ; sleep 10 ; done

Solaris · 2009-08-14 11:39:52 5
make 100 directories with leading zero, 001...100, using bash3.X
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mkdir $(printf '%03d\n' {1..100})

twfcc · 2009-08-14 11:35:43 4
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easily convert one unit to another

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Benchmark SQL Query

Benchmark a SQL query against MySQL Server. The example runs the query 10 times, and you get the average runtime in the output. To ensure that the query does not get cached, use `RESET QUERY CACHE;` on top in the query file.

Edit a script that's somewhere in your path.

Often I need to edit a bash or perl script I've written. I know it's in my path but I don't feel like typing the whole path (or I don't remember the path).

Rename files in batch

change directory to actual path instead of symlink path

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convert ascii string to hex

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Search some text from all files inside a directory

a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

[re]verify a disc with very friendly output

[re]verify those burned CD's early and often - better safe than sorry - at a bare minimum you need the good old `dd` and `md5sum` commands, but why not throw in a super "user-friendly" progress gauge with the `pv` command - adjust the ``-s'' "size" argument to your needs - 700 MB in this case, and capture that checksum in a "test.md5" file with `tee` - just in-case for near-future reference. *uber-bonus* ability - positively identify those unlabeled mystery discs - for extra credit, what disc was used for this sample output?

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