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sed '1!G;h;$!d'
2009-02-16 21:05:54
User: grep
Functions: sed
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reverse order of file
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sed 's/$//'
2009-02-16 21:04:37
User: grep
Functions: sed
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convert DOS newlines to unix newlines
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sed 's/$/<ctrl+v><ctrl+m>/'
2009-02-16 20:53:05
User: SiegeX
Functions: sed
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Convert Unix newlines to DOS newlines

The ctrl+v,ctrl+m portion represents key presses that you should do. If you do it successfully you should see a ^M character appear.

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sed '/./,$!d'
2009-02-16 20:39:40
User: grep
Functions: sed
2
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remove leading blank lines
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sed '1,55d'
2009-02-16 20:36:25
User: grep
Functions: sed
-4
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delete first X lines of a file

deletes first 55 lines; change the 55 to whatever number

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newhostname=$(hostname | awk -F. '{print $1 "." $2}'); ipaddress=$(nslookup `hostname` | grep -i address | awk -F" " '{print $2}' | awk -F. '{print $3 "." $4}' | grep -v 64.142);PS1="[`id -un`.$newhostname.$ipaddress]"' (${PWD}): '; export PS1
2009-02-16 20:11:53
User: simardd
Functions: awk export grep hostname nslookup
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change your PS1 to look better :)

changes the PS1 to something better than default.

[username.hostname.last-2-digits-of-ip] (current directory)

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sed 's/$'"/`echo \\\r`/"
2009-02-16 20:07:08
User: fooMan
Functions: sed
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convert Unix newlines to DOS newlines
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gpg --encrypt --recipient 'Foo Bar' foo.txt
2009-02-16 19:58:13
User: mariusz
Functions: gpg
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gpg encrypt a file

gpg command to encrypt a file on the command line.

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gpg --output foo.txt --decrypt foo.txt.pgp
2009-02-16 19:56:19
User: mariusz
Functions: gpg
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gpg decrypt a file

gpg command to decrypt a previously encrypted file on the command line.

Can be optionally made into an alias:

alias decrypt='gpg --output foo.txt --decrypt foo.txt.pgp'

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find path/to/folder/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 md5sum | awk '{print $1}' | sort | md5sum | awk '{print $1}'
2009-02-16 19:39:37
User: mcover
Functions: awk find md5sum sort xargs
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Calculates fake folder checksum based on folder's files' md5sums

For quick validation of folder's file-contents (structure not taken into account) - I use it mostly to check if two folders' contents are the same.

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netstat -putona
2009-02-16 19:14:35
User: starchox
Functions: netstat
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Show all programs on UDP and TCP ports with timer information

-p PID and name of the program

-u on a UDP port.

-t also TCP ports

-o networking timer

-n numeric IP addresses (don't resolve them)

-a all sockets

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echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | php > phpinfo.txt
2009-02-16 19:02:01
User: jacquesloonen
Functions: echo
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phpinfo from the command line

show phpinfo(); from the command line

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echo "SELECT * FROM table; " | mysql -u root -p${MYSQLROOTPW} databasename | sed 's/\t/","/g;s/^/"/;s/$/"/;s/\n//g' > outfile.csv
2009-02-16 18:55:18
User: jacquesloonen
Functions: echo sed
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Export MySQL query as .csv file

This command converts a MySQL query directly into a .csv (Comma Seperated Value)-file.

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smbcacls //server/sharename file -U username
2009-02-16 18:52:14
User: drossman
Functions: file
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read Windows ACLs from Linux

You can read, add, delete and modify Windows permissions from Linux using smbcacls from the smb-client package.

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df / | awk '{print $1}' | grep dev | xargs tune2fs -l | grep create
2009-02-16 18:45:03
User: Kaio
Functions: awk df grep tune2fs xargs
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Check the age of the filesystem

Very useful set of commands to know when your file system was created.

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for i in `df -P |grep string|cut -f2 -d%|cut -c2-100`; do umount -l -f $i;done
2009-02-16 18:42:00
User: Kaio
Functions: umount
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Umount only the NFS related to 'string'

Sometimes, you have a lot of NFS in the server and you can't or shouldn't use umount -a. Whis this command, you only umount the fs related to the 'string'

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echo "sed -e"|perl -pe 's/sed -e/perl -pe/'
2009-02-16 18:39:06
User: drossman
Functions: echo
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use perl instead of sed

Replace sed regular expressions with perl patterns on the command line.

The sed equivalent is: echo "sed -e"|sed -e 's/sed -e/perl -pe/'

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=64; chmod 600 /swapfile; mkswap /swapfile; swapon /swapfile
2009-02-16 18:36:38
User: starchox
Functions: chmod dd mkswap swapon
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Add temporary swap space

In addition to a swap partition, Linux can also use a swap file. Some programs, like g++, can use huge amounts of virtual memory, requiring the temporary creation of extra space.

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find . -type f -perm +0111 -print
2009-02-16 18:35:04
User: piXelz
Functions: find
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Find files with at least one exec bit set
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scp user@hostb:file user@hostc:
2009-02-16 18:33:08
User: drossman
Functions: scp
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scp file from hostb to hostc while logged into hosta

While at the command line of of hosta, scp a file from remote hostb to remote hostc. This saves the step of logging into hostb and then issuing the scp command to hostc.

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function man2pdf(){ man -t ${1:?Specify man as arg} | open -f -a preview; }
2009-02-16 18:29:35
User: piXelz
Functions: as man
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Open up a man page as PDF (#OSX)

Simply pass an argument to the script to convert the manual page to a PDF:

man2pdf drutil
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/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
2009-02-16 18:22:37
User: piXelz
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Quickly switch to login window (#OSX)
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/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
2009-02-16 18:19:34
User: piXelz
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Contextual Menu Cleanup (OSX)
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apache2 -t -D DUMP_MODULES
2009-02-16 17:30:20
User: ElAlecs
Tags: apache httpd
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Know which modules are loaded on an Apache server

This let you know which modules has loaded the Apache server, very useful to know if the mod_rewrite is ready to use.

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_cd ~/nsfw; mplayer midget_donkey.mpeg
2009-02-16 17:19:40
User: Kirbe
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Do a command but skip recording it in the bash command history

Note the extra space before the command (I had to put it as an underscore since the website eats up preceding spaces). That's all it takes. Now if you check your history with "$ history", it wont show up.

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