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rm strangedirs -rf
2009-06-30 15:10:31
User: ioggstream
Functions: rm
Tags: rm safe
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Recursive when needed

avoid rm to be recursive until you complete the command: put the -rf at the end!

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ls /mnt/badfs &
2009-06-30 14:40:22
User: ioggstream
Functions: ls
Tags: Filesystem nfs gfs
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Check if filesystem hangs

When a fs hangs and you've just one console, even # ls could be a dangerous command. Simply put a trailing "&" and play safe

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PS1="\`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo \e[33\;40m\\\^\\\_\\\^\e[0m; else echo \e[36\;40m\\\-\e[0m\\\_\e[36\;40m\\\-\e[0m; fi\` \u \w:\h)"
2009-06-30 14:29:55
User: digitalsushi
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Smiley Face Bash Prompt

If your last command was a dud, your bash prompt will be angry at you. Otherwise it's happy. Soon you will crave its constant approval and your linux skills will improve simply to avoid low self-esteem.

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cp -bfS.bak filename filename
2009-06-30 14:17:28
User: ioggstream
Functions: cp
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quickly backup or copy a file with bash

less symbols, tab completion.

including # export SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX="_`date +%F`" in your .bashrc provides you to easily timestamp your files

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runas /user:administrator net stop wuauserv
2009-06-30 09:29:03
User: oernii2
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stop windows update

Windows only: stops windows update and the nagging restart window.

You need your admin password for this one.

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source ~/.bash_profile
2009-06-29 19:26:43
User: unixmonkey743
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reload bash_profile

when editing .bash_profile (or .bashrc), run this to use the new version without having to exit and open a new terminal

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cat myfile.txt | tr -d '\n'
2009-06-29 12:49:08
User: Cowboy
Functions: cat tr
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Trim linebreaks
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svn log | tr -d '\n' | sed -r 's/-{2,}/\n/g' | sed -r 's/ \([^\)]+\)//g' | sed -r 's/^r//' | sed -r "s/[0-9]+ lines?//g" | sort -g
2009-06-29 12:48:30
User: Cowboy
Functions: sed sort tr
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SVN Status log to CSV

Note you have also the --xml option ;)

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? () { echo "$*" | bc -l; }
2009-06-28 20:15:30
User: fizz
Functions: bc echo
Tags: bash bc function calc bc -l
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Define a quick calculator function

defines a handy function for quick calculations from cli.

once defined:

? 10*2+3
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for i in *;do mv "$i" "$(echo $i | sed s/PROBLEM/FIX/g)";done
2009-06-28 01:50:25
User: AlecSchueler
Functions: mv
Tags: bash sed mv rename encoding
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Uniformly correct filenames in a directory

Useful if non-ascii characters in filenames have been improperly encoded. Replace "PROBLEM" with the incorrect characters (e.g. 'é'), and "FIX" with the correct ones (e.g. '?').

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rename 'y/ /_/' *
2009-06-27 22:20:47
User: signal9
Functions: rename
Tags: file rename
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replace spaces in filenames with underscores

This command will replace all the spaces in all the filenames of the current directory with underscores. There are other commands that do this here, but this one is the easiest and shortest.

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curl -u YourUsername:YourPassword -d status="Your status message go here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2009-06-27 21:47:48
User: m33600
Tags: twitter
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Twitter update from terminal (pok3's snipts ?)

Found it on snipt, pok3, is it yours?

I put my user = m33600, the password and the status was my robot message:

Settima robot message: ALARM ZONE 3 (sent via command line).

Now bots may have their identity on twitter...

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S=`pidof skype`;grep heap /proc/$S/maps|cut -f1 -d' '|awk -F- '{print "0x" $1 " 0x" $2}'|xargs echo "du me t ">l;gdb -batch -p $S -x l>/dev/null 2>&1;strings t|grep \(smirk|head -n1
2009-06-26 20:03:17
User: alvieboy
Functions: awk cut echo grep head xargs
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Extract the emoticons regex from a running skype process

Skype has an internal regex which depicts the emoticons it supports. However you cannot simply search the binary file for it. This small 181 character line will do just that, provided skype is running. And of course, only works in linux.

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awk '/regex/{print x};{x=$0}'
2009-06-26 19:29:54
User: res0nat0r
Functions: awk
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Print line immediately before a matching regex.

Use this if you don't have access to GNU grep's -B option.

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:let i=0 | 'a,'bg/ZZZZ/s/ZZZZ/\=i/ | let i=i+1
2009-06-26 19:23:29
User: res0nat0r
Tags: vim
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VIM: Replace a string with an incrementing number between marks 'a and 'b (eg, convert string ZZZZ to 1, 2, 3, ...)
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( cd SOURCEDIR && tar cf - . ) | (cd DESTDIR && tar xvpf - )
2009-06-26 19:13:51
User: res0nat0r
Functions: cd tar
Tags: files
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Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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pax -r -s ',^/,,' -f file.tar
2009-06-26 19:10:57
User: res0nat0r
Functions: pax
Tags: tar
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Untar file with absolute pathname to relative location

Don't have GNU tar installed that supports the redirect option (-C)? Use this.

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find -L /proc/*/fd -links 0 2>/dev/null
2009-06-26 18:42:51
User: res0nat0r
Functions: find
Tags: du proc df
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Find removed files still in use via /proc

Oracle DBA remove some logfiles which are still open by the database and he is complaining the space has not been reclaimed? Use the above command to find out what PID needs to be stopped. Or alternatively recover the file via:

cp /proc/pid/fd/filehandle /new/file.txt
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rsop.msc
2009-06-26 11:19:50
User: felix001
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Show your account and windows policy settings with Results of Policy msc.

Type this into windows via run and it will display to you your complete policy for windows. This includes group policy, security policy and your active directory account (min password etc)....

www.fir3net.com

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watch 'netstat -aniv'
2009-06-26 11:16:42
User: felix001
Functions: watch
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Monitor RX/TX packets and any subsquent errors

www.fir3net.com

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netstat -lnp
2009-06-26 08:33:03
User: unixmonkey4415
Functions: netstat
Tags: netstat
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Most simple way to get a list of open ports
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ps aux | grep -v `whoami`
2009-06-26 08:28:06
User: unixmonkey4415
Functions: grep ps
Tags: Process Management
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Check processes runed not by you
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pdftk $* cat output $merged.pdf
2009-06-26 07:36:02
User: svg
Functions: cat
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Merge several pdf files into a single file
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echo "Hello World." | tee -a hello.txt
2009-06-26 00:55:59
User: thebillywayne
Functions: echo tee
Tags: tee
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bash or tcsh redirect both to stdout and to a file

When plumbers use pipes, they sometimes need a T-joint. The Unix equivalent to this is 'tee'. The -a flag tells 'tee' to append to the file, rather than clobbering it.

Tested on bash and tcsh.

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man fetchmail | perl -ne 'undef $/; print $1 if m/^.*?(-k \| --keep.*)-K \| --nokeep.*$/smg'
2009-06-25 23:51:35
User: unixmonkey4437
Functions: fetchmail man perl
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Print multiline text starting and ending at specific regexps with perl

Using perl, here, we grep the man page of fetchmail to find the paragraph starting with '-k | --keep' and ending before the paragraph starting with '-K | --nokeep'

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