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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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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
```
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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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-2

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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Make alias pemanent fast

Simple function to permanently add an alias to your profile. Tested on bash and Ksh, bash version above. Here is the ksh version: PERMA () { print "$@" >> ~/.profile; } Sample usage: PERMA alias la='ls -a'

list files recursively by size

Add sudo with shortcut alt+e in bash

Rename files in batch

Setting global redirection of STDERR to STDOUT in a script

You have a script where =ALL= STDERR should be redirected to STDIN and you don't want to add "2>&1" at the end of each command... E.G.: $ ls -al /foo/bar 2>&1 Than just add this piece of code at the beginning of your script! I hope this can help someone. :)

ShellCheck all the bash/sh script under a specific directory excluding version control

This is a commodity one-liner that uses ShellCheck to assure some quality on bash and sh scripts under a specific directory. It ignores the files in .git directory. Just substitute "./.git/*" with "./.svn/*" for older and booring centralized version control. Just substitute ShellCheck with "rm" if your scripts are crap and you want to get rid of them :)

Colorful man

Colourful with vim regex finding goodness! Replace the 'man' with the page to be looked up. I actually have as a function in my .profile function vman { /usr/bin/man $* | /usr/bin/col -b | /usr/bin/iconv -c | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist nospell nonu' -

Open Finder from the current Terminal location

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Determine if photos have been rotated to portrait orientation instead of normal landscape orientation

Most people take photos in landscape orientation (wider than it is tall). Sometimes though you turn the camera sideways to capture a narrow/tall subject. Assuming you then manually rotate those picture files 90 degrees for proper viewing on screen or photo frame, you now have a mix of orientations in your photos directory. This command will print out the names of all the photos in the current directory whose vertical resolution is larger than its horizontal resolution (i.e. portrait orientation). You can then take that list of files and deal with them however you need to, like re-rotating back to landscape for consistent printing with all the others. This command requires the "identify" command from the ImageMagick command-line image manipulation suite. Sample output from identify: $ identify PICT2821.JPG PICT2821.JPG JPEG 1536x2048 1536x2048+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 688KB 0.016u 0:00.006

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