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This is a command that I find myself using all the time. It works like regular grep, but returns the paragraph containing the search pattern instead of just the line. It operates on files or standard input. grepp <PATTERN> <FILE> or <SOMECOMMAND> | grepp <PATTERN> Show Sample Output

grepp() { [ $# -eq 1 ] && perl -00ne "print if /$1/i" || perl -00ne "print if /$1/i" < "$2";}

eightmillion · 2010-01-12 04:30:15 13

Edit video by cutting the part you like without transcoding.

Examples: The following will take frames starting at 15.2 seconds for a total of 45.9 seconds: mencoder -ss 15.2 -endpos 30.7 -oac copy -ovc copy mymovie.avi -o myeditedmovie.avi Keep in mind -endpos is the total time, i.e. the output video in this is 3 minutes 3 seconds in length: mencoder -ss 1 minute -endpos 2 minutes 3 seconds -oac copy -ovc copy mymovie.avi -o myeditedmovie.avi
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8

mencoder -ss <start point> -endpos <time from start point> -oac copy -ovc copy <invid> -o <outvid>

Buzzcp · 2010-01-11 22:59:13 5
Show the command line of a process that use a specific port (ubuntu)

A way not so simple but functional for print the command for the process that's listening a specific port. I got the pid from lsof because I think it's more portable but can be used netstat netstat -tlnp Show Sample Output
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```
java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=300m -server -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8885 -jar /oc4j/j2ee/home/oc4j.jar 
```
0

port=8888;pid=$(lsof -Pan -i tcp -i udp | grep ":$port"|tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f2); ps -Afe|grep "$pid"|grep --invert-match grep | sed "s/^$[^ ]*[ ]*$\{7\}$.*$$/\2/g"

glaudiston · 2010-01-11 17:49:22 8
Change pidgin status

Changes pidgin status using its dbus interface. The status code can be obtained using command #4543.
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1

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService /im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface.PurpleSavedstatusActivate int32:<WANTED STATE>

unixApe · 2010-01-11 17:35:23 4
Get current pidgin status

Returns code of current status of pidgin accounts via dbus interface Show Sample Output
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```
method return sender=:1.14 -> dest=:1.368 reply_serial=2
   int32 <SAVED STATE ID>
```
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dbus-send --print-reply --dest=im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService /im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface.PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent

unixApe · 2010-01-11 17:30:07 3
Lookup your own IPv4 address
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5

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

grawity · 2010-01-11 17:00:32 8
Unlock your KDE4 session remotely (for boxes locked by KDE lock utility)

For KDE 4.2.* with plasma overlay activated I use this.
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qdbus org.kde.krunner_lock /MainApplication quit; qdbus org.kde.plasma-overlay /MainApplication quit

unixmonkey7806 · 2010-01-11 15:10:07 5
Find which process is using a port on Solaris

My old Solaris server does not have lsof, so I have to use pfiles.
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ps -ef | grep user | awk '{print $2}' | while read pid; do echo $pid ; pfiles $pid| grep portnum; done

sharfah · 2010-01-11 12:34:51 4
Execute a PHP script every 30 minutes using crontab

Just put this line in a file that resides in your /etc/cron.d/ folder, and you're set. The -q option is used to suppress php headers.
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0,30 * * * * php -q /address/to/script.php

dotanmazor · 2010-01-11 10:44:13 6
This command will shorten any URL the user inputs. What makes this command different is that it utilizes 5 different services and gives you 5 different outputs.

This command will shorten any URL the user inputs. What makes this command different is that it utilizes 5 different services and gives you 5 different outputs: is.gd, bit.ly, u.nu, geekology.co.za, and tinyurl. curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://bit.ly/?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*$shortened-url" value="http:\/\/bit.ly\/[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' \ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/bit.ly\/[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://geekology.co.za/shortii/create.php?u=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/geekology.co.za\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://u.nu/unu-api-simple?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/u.nu\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/is.gd\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' \ | uniq echo ""
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curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' \ | uniq ; curl -s http://bit.ly/?url=$1 \ | sed -n 's/.*\(shortened-url"...............

o0110o · 2010-01-11 01:11:27 7
A command to post a message and an auto-shortened link to Twitter. The link shortening service is provide by TinyURL.

A command to post a message and an auto-shortened link to Twitter. The link shortening service is provided by TinyURL.
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curl --user "USERNAME:PASSWORD" -d status="MESSAGE_GOES_HERE $(curl -s http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=URL_GOES_HERE)" -d source="cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json -o /dev/null

o0110o · 2010-01-11 00:59:13 11
How many Linux and Windows devices are on your network?

Shows how many Windows and Linux devices are on your network. May add support for others, but that's all that are on my network right now. Show Sample Output
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```
3 Linux device(s)
2 Window(s) devices
```
3

sudo nmap -F -O 192.168.1.1-255 | grep "Running: " > /tmp/os; echo "$(cat /tmp/os | grep Linux | wc -l) Linux device(s)"; echo "$(cat /tmp/os | grep Windows | wc -l) Window(s) devices"

matthewbauer · 2010-01-10 03:09:56 5
Display $PATH with one line per entry

Display the $PATH with one line per entry, in a pager. Show Sample Output
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```
/home/nicoulaj/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
(END) 
```
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echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n} | less

nicoulaj · 2010-01-09 23:25:02 4
hexadecimal2decimal
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printf "%d\n" \0x64

4Aiur · 2010-01-09 02:50:50 3
Prevent overwriting file when using redirection

If you set noclobber to on, bash won't allow redirection to overwrite existing files . set -o noclobber command turn the option on (default it s off ) . You can still append information but not overwrite the file .to turn it back off use : $ set +o noclobber . I use it because i overwrite a file by accident , after thought , content of the file was very important , creating a one more file mean nothing for my hard disk (we are not anymore on the 64 k memory time) , but content of file is far much important . What we call exeprience :( Show Sample Output
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```
gnu@robby:/tmp$ set -o noclobber
gnu@robby:/tmp$ cat  tesk
dffd
gnu@robby:/tmp$ cat > tesk
bash: tesk : impossible d'?craser le fichier existant
gnu@robby:/tmp$ cat  tesk
dffd
gnu@robby:/tmp$ cat >> tesk
fdf
gnu@robby:/tmp$ cat  tesk
dffd
fdf
gnu@robby:/tmp$ 
```
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set -o noclobber

eastwind · 2010-01-08 21:06:44 7
Poor man's ntpdate

If you don't have netcat, you can use curl.
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date -s "`curl -sI www.example.com | sed -n 's/^Date: //p'`"

putnamhill · 2010-01-08 21:05:41 4
sirve para ver la salida de un comando en pantalla y al mismo tiempo guardar la salida en un fichero
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find / -name *.conf | tee salida

dvinchi666 · 2010-01-08 20:53:37 3
Show recent earthquakes in Bay Area

To see only earthquakes for today, add another pipe to egrep "`date '+%Y/%m/%d'`" Show Sample Output
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```
 4.1  2010/01/07 10:09:35 37.481N 121.799W 11.0   10 km ( 6 mi) ENE of Milpitas, CA
 3.8  2010/01/08 11:48:50 37.478N 121.794W  8.1   10 km ( 6 mi) ENE of Milpitas, CA
 3.0  2010/01/06 23:09:00 37.410N 121.755W  9.1    8 km ( 5 mi) NE  of Alum Rock, CA
```
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lynx --width=200 --dump 'http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/San_Francisco_eqs.htm'|sed -ne '/MAG.*/,/^References/{;s/\[[0-9][0-9]*\]//;1,/h:m:s/d;/Back to map/,$d;/^$/d;/^[ \t][ \t]*[3-9]\.[0-9][0-9]*[ \t][ \t]*/p; }'|sort -k1nr

KevinM · 2010-01-08 20:52:28 3
Poor man's ntpdate

Good when firewalled and only in need of a reasonable accurate time. Use a fast responding web server.
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date -s "$(echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\n" | nc www.example.com 80 | sed -ne 's/^Date: $.*$$/\1/p')"

tomhol · 2010-01-08 20:05:00 9
Every Nth line position # (AWK)

A better way to show the file lines 3n + 1
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awk 'NR%3==1' file

point_to_null · 2010-01-08 18:52:24 9
get bofh excuse from a trusted source :-)
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telnet bofh.jeffballard.us 666

bubo · 2010-01-08 18:08:39 10
File browser

Simple file browser with dmenu, ls, and xdg-open.
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xdg-open $(ls . | dmenu)

matthewbauer · 2010-01-08 17:16:28 4
Find all files <10MB and sum up their size

files
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i=0; for f in $(find ./ -size -10M -exec stat -c %s {} \; ); do i=$(($i + $f)); done; echo $i

dakira · 2010-01-08 15:47:35 3
Prints line numbers
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awk '{print NR,$0}'

4Aiur · 2010-01-08 08:00:34 3
Every Nth line position # (AWK)

awk extract every nth line. Generic is: awk '{if (NR % LINE == POSITION) print $0}' foo where "last" position is always 0 (zero). Show Sample Output
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```
$ awk '{if (NR % 3 == 1) print $0}' blah1
1
4
7

$ awk '{if (NR % 3 == 2) print $0}' blah1
2
5
8

$ awk '{if (NR % 3 == 0) print $0}' blah1
3
6
9
```
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awk '{if (NR % 3 == 1) print $0}' foo > foo_every3_position1; awk '{if (NR % 3 == 2) print $0}' foo > foo_every3_position2; awk '{if (NR % 3 == 0) print $0}' foo > foo_every3_position3

oshazard · 2010-01-08 04:20:06 4
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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Restore user,group and mod of an entire website

I often use it at my work, on an ovh server with root ssh access and often have to change mod after having finished an operation. This command, replace the user, group and mod by the one required by apache to work.

Find where a kind of file is stored

In this case searches for where .desktop files are stored. The resulted is a sorted list of the top directories containing such files.

grep for minus (-) sign

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Validating a file with checksum

Makes sure the contents of "myfile" are the same contents that the author intended given the author's md5 hash of that file ("c84fa6b830e38ee8a551df61172d53d7").

Check for login failures and summarize

This command checks for the number of times when someone has tried to login to your server and failed. If there are a lot, then that user is being targeted on your system and you might want to make sure that user either has remote logins disabled, or has a strong password, or both. If your output has an "invalid" line, it is a summary of all logins from users that don't exist on your system.

Using parcellite, indents the content of the clipboard manager

This command takes the content of a Parcellite-managed clipboard manager and add one level of indentation to it. It may be useful to indent a block of code which will enter inside another, already indented one but I use it mostly to indent code I will post in Stack Overflow questions and answers.

Test load balancers

With the "--resolve" switch, you can avoid doing DNS lookups or edit the /etc/hosts file, by providing the IP address for a domain directly. Useful if you have many servers with different IP addresses behind a load balancer. Of course, you would loop it: $ for IP in 10.11.0.{1..10}; do curl --resolve subdomain.example.com:80:$IP subdomain.example.com -I -s; done

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