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yes 'c=(" " " " " " 0 1); printf "${c[RANDOM%5]}"' | bash

2013-11-09 16:10:41

User: stx

Functions: printf yes

Tags: random Matrix

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Binary digits Matrix effect

Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13611501/bash-version-of-c64-code-art-10-print-chr205-5rnd1-goto-10

echo $(curl http://ipecho.net/plain 2> /dev/null)

2013-11-08 17:55:48

User: razerwolf

Functions: echo

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gets your public IP address

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brew install ssh-copy-id; ssh-copy-id user@host

2013-11-08 16:46:51

User: MrWonderful

Functions: install

Tags: ssh osx ssh-keygen mac os x ssh-copy-id

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Copy your ssh public key to a server from a machine that doesn't have ssh-copy-id

This is the best way to fix this issue on OS X. If you don't have homebrew installed, now is the perfect time to fix that too. ;-)

see http://crosstown.coolestguidesontheplanet.com/os-x/40-setting-up-os-x-lion-to-plug-into-homebrew-package-manager

find /var/lib/cassandra/data -depth -type d -iwholename "*/snapshots/*" -printf "%Ty-%Tm-%Td %p\n" | sort

2013-11-08 15:18:11

User: mrwulf

Functions: find

Tags: find cassandra

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List cassandra snapshots by date

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find /var/lib/cassandra/data -depth -type d -iwholename "*/snapshots/*" -mtime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

2013-11-08 14:47:29

User: mrwulf

Functions: find rm xargs

Tags: find cassandra nodetool nodetool clearsnapshot

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Clear cassandra snapshots that are older than 30 days

Better than:

nodetool clearsnapshot

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while true; do date; (curl -s -o 1.html http://www.biglion.ru/deals/ebay-80/ &); sleep 5; cat 1.html | grep "купонов" | awk -F"<div>" '{print $2}' | awk -F"<span>" '{print $1}'; done

2013-11-08 12:40:05

User: sxiii

Functions: awk cat grep sleep

Tags: biglion coupon bonus ebay

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Processes biglion quantity of sold ebay coupons/bonus codes

Processes biglion quantity of sold ebay coupons/bonus codes, so you can know approximate count of users who buyed the coupons and when sales are come up again.

You can change sleep parameter so script will work slowly or faster (default is 5 seconds).

Additional requirements: curl

Standart tools used: awk, date, cat, grep (bash)

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 2>/dev/null |tail -2

2013-11-08 01:56:15

User: snaguber

Functions: tail telnet

Tags: telnet BOFH

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Get a BOFH excuse

Almost same output with fewer typing... OP had a great idea : BOFH !!!

echo $(< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c10)

2013-11-07 21:51:38

User: santizo

Functions: echo head tr

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Generate a random password.

Uses urandom and tr to generate a random password. Change the value of head -c## for the lenght of the password.

wget --no-check-certificate https://www.kernel.org/$(wget -qO- --no-check-certificate https://www.kernel.org | grep tar | head -n1 | cut -d\" -f2)

2013-11-07 18:46:14

User: glaudiston

Functions: cut grep head tar wget

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Download current stable kernel version from kernel.org

Access www.kernel.org and download the last stable linux kernel release.

dd if=file | tee >(sha1sum) >(md5sum) >(sha256sum) >/dev/null

2013-11-07 17:43:54

User: dubbaluga

Functions: dd tee

Tags: tee parallel I/O

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Calculate different hash sums of one file at the same time

This is to overcome the issue of slow I/O by reading once and forwarding the output to several processes (e. g. 3 in the given command). One could also invoke grep or other programs to work on read data.

man foobar | less +/searched_string

2013-11-06 18:50:11

User: mcescalante

Functions: less man

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open manpage and search for a string

This will open the manpage for "foobar", and display all instances of "searched_string". You can traverse through them by pressing "n"

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echo "rootgot" | awk 'BEGIN{FIELDWIDTHS="4 3"}{print $2$1}'

2013-11-06 14:17:37

User: in2nix4life

Functions: awk echo

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Use awk's FIELDWIDTHS function to manipulate a string.

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tar -cf "../${PWD##*/}.tar" .

2013-11-06 11:15:38

User: joedhon

Functions: tar

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tar the current directory wihtout the absolute path

should do the same as command #12875, just shorter.

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vboxmanage list runningvms | cut -d \" -f 2 | xargs -I % vboxmanage controlvm % poweroff

2013-11-05 16:58:03

User: magoon

Functions: cut xargs

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Halt all running vagrants (virtualboxes)

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curl ifconfig.me

2013-11-05 13:18:44

User: Gepeto

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External IP (raw data)

Designed to access external IP from shell. Check the web page (ifconfig.me) to find many more options such as port, lang, mime, ...

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killall -9 unique

2013-11-05 08:14:09

User: MrCricket

Functions: killall

Tags: GNU/Linux

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Kill process you don't know the PID of, when pidof and pgrep are not available.

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ORIGDIR=${PWD##*/}; PARENT=`dirname $PWD`; tar -C $PARENT -cf ../${ORIGDIR}.tar $ORIGDIR

2013-11-04 18:44:34

User: vwal

Functions: tar

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tar the current directory wihtout the absolute path

tars the current directory (and its children) in an archive of the same name (plus ".tar" :)) in the parent directory without the absolute path, so that when the archive is extracted, only the current directory name is created for the path. Assumes bash/zsh.

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scp user@hostname:/remotedir/file.name /localdir

2013-11-03 16:12:19

User: novajeeper

Functions: scp

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SCP file from remote location to local directory

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gpasswd -a USER GROUP

2013-11-03 09:29:57

User: etescartz

Functions: gpasswd

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Add a user to a group

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(amixer get Master | grep off > /dev/null && amixer -q set Master unmute) || amixer -q set Master mute

2013-11-01 22:48:28

User: MathPlayer

Functions: amixer get grep set

Tags: sound amixer

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amixer toogle state (mute / unmute)

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getent group <group>

2013-10-31 15:07:49

User: jmorganwalker

Functions: getent

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See the members of a group

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useradd -G {group-name} username

2013-10-31 13:16:59

User: jmorganwalker

Functions: useradd

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Add a user to a group

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# [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "Alive"

2013-10-31 10:51:04

User: vp_arth

Functions: echo rm

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Russian rullette: Warning! Don't run, if not sure what are you doing

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curl ipinfo.io/<ipaddress>

2013-10-31 05:18:07

User: coderholic

Tags: bash locate ip address geoip

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Geolocate a given IP address

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curl ipinfo.io

2013-10-31 05:16:47

User: coderholic

Tags: IP hostname ip address geoip

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return external ip

Get your ip address, hostname, ASN and geolocation information. If you want just one field as a text response you can also get that,eg curl ipinfo.io/ip

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