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rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`
2009-02-16 10:55:57
User: RonaldConco
Functions: rm
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Remove all subversion files from a project recursively

This command will remove all .svn folder from your project if you need to manual remove the subversion files.

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mount -o -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows/c force
2009-02-16 10:51:57
User: RonaldConco
Functions: mount
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Mount a windows partition in a dual boot linux installation with write permission...[Read and Write]

If you have the library installed ntfs-3g, you will be able to mount the windows partition and write on it....

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mount -o auto -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows
2009-02-16 10:45:06
User: RonaldConco
Functions: mount
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Mount a windows partition in a dual boot linux installation...[Read Only Mounting]

if the command is successful , you will get no output - only if an error has occurred will there be output

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find ./ -name '*' -exec rename 's/\s+/_/g' {} \;
2009-02-16 09:52:15
User: pamindic
Functions: find rename
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Find recursively, from current directory down, files and directories whose names contain single or multiple whitespaces and replace each such occurrence with a single underscore.

Note the g for global in the perl expression; without it, only the first occurrence in the name would be replaced.

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(cd /orignl/path tar -cf - . ) | (cd /dst/dir;tar -xvf -)
2009-02-16 09:36:34
User: unixmonkey991
Functions: cd tar
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tar pipe to copy files, alternate to cp -Ra

uses tar to dump files from /orignl/path to /dst/dir. i find tar's out more readable than cp, and it doesn't mess with modified dates.

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growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao -use-the-force-luke=break:1913760 -dvd-compat -speed=2 -Z /dev/cdrom=XBOX360GAMEHERE.iso
2009-02-16 09:17:37
User: unixmonkey991
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burn backed up xbox 360 games

burn all those sweet iso's from the command line. replace speed=2 with more if your media supports it and you're brave!

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find . -type f -name '*.html' -exec grep -H HACKED {} \; > hacklog.txt
2009-02-16 08:57:25
User: nullrouter
Functions: find grep
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Locate Hacked Files and Dump.

This will check all .HTML file contents for the word "Hacked" and dump it to hacklog.txt. This is great for located all those files affected by nasty Joomla exploits. Change the .HTML to any other extension you wish to check, and of course the word "HACKED" for other searches.

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netstat -anl | grep :80 | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d ":" -f 1 | uniq -c | sort -n | grep -c IPHERE
2009-02-16 08:54:08
User: nullrouter
Functions: awk cut grep netstat sort uniq
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Who has the most Apache connections.

This will tell you who has the most Apache connections by IP (replace IPHERE with the actual IP you wish to check). Or if you wish, remove | grep -c IPHERE for the full list.

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netstat -pant 2> /dev/null | grep SYN_ | awk '{print $5;}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -20
2009-02-16 08:49:38
User: unixmonkey982
Functions: awk cut grep netstat sort tail uniq
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List top 20 IP from which TCP connection is in SYN_RECV state

List top 20 IP from which TCP connection is in SYN_RECV state.

Useful on web servers to detect a syn flood attack.

Replace SYN_ with ESTA to find established connections

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find / -name \*string\*
2009-02-16 08:43:01
User: tini
Functions: find
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best command for searching files

run as root and use it fo find file you're looking for.

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find . -type f -exec grep -l pattern {} \; | xargs vi +/pattern
2009-02-16 08:39:39
User: unixmonkey982
Functions: find grep vi xargs
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find all files containing a pattern, open them using vi and place cursor to the first match, use 'n' and ':n' to navigate
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xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}' | xargs ps h -o pid,cmd
2009-02-16 07:55:19
User: jackhab
Functions: awk ps xargs
Tags: Process Management windows process GUI
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Click on a GUI window and show its process ID and command used to run the process

This command is useful when you want to know what process is responsible for a certain GUI application and what command you need to issue to launch it in terminal.

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command | pbcopy && pbpaste
2009-02-16 07:40:36
User: vaporub
Functions: command
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Mac OS-X-> copy and paste things to and from the clipboard from the shell

Copies whatever is piped to the pbcopy command to the clipboard.

pbpaste ... well pastes whats on the clipboard.

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sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
2009-02-16 07:30:54
User: StephSD3
Functions: sudo
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restart network manager

when I turn on my wifi, I always have to put in this command in order to make my laptop notice the wifi.

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mysqladmin -u username -p create dbname
2009-02-16 07:21:07
User: vaporub
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Create a mysql database from the command line

Creates a database that could then be populated with a dump file or application.

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qlmanage -p "yourfilename"
2009-02-16 07:15:03
User: vaporub
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OS-X... create a quick look from the command line

Where "docname" is the document you want OS-X to image... file.txt, file.pdf, file.mov, etc

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curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org | sed 's/[a-zA-Z<>/ :]//g'
2009-02-16 07:12:01
User: vaporub
Functions: sed
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Another Curl your IP command

Just another curl command to get your public facing IP

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MAC=`(date; cat /proc/interrupts) | md5sum | sed -r 's/^(.{10}).*$/\1/; s/([0-9a-f]{2})/\1:/g; s/:$//;'`
2009-02-16 07:09:43
User: vaporub
Functions: cat md5sum sed
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Generat a Random MAC address

Original author unknown (I believe off of a wifi hacking forum).

Used in conjuction with ifconfig and cron.. can be handy (especially spoofing AP's)

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uuencode $file $file | /usr/bin/mailx -s "$file" ${USER}
2009-02-16 06:38:00
User: amiga500
Functions: uuencode
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Email a file to yourself

This works on Solaris 10.

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find ${PATH//:/ } -executable -type f -printf "%f\n"
2009-02-16 06:03:46
User: kamathln
Functions: find
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List all execs in $PATH, usefull for grepping the resulting list

##Dependancies: bash coreutils

Many executables in $PATH have the keyword somewhere other than the beginning in their file names. The command is useful for exploring the executables in $PATH like this.

find ${PATH//:/ } -executable -type f -printf "%f\n" |grep admin

lpadmin

time-admin

network-admin

svnadmin

users-admin

django-admin

shares-admin

services-admin

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pstree -Gap
2009-02-16 05:50:50
User: fulat2k
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Displays process tree of all running processes

G - uses VT100 line drawing

a - shows command line arguments of process

p - prints PID of process

For other options, man pstree :)

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find . \( -type d -name .svn -prune \) -o -type d -print
2009-02-16 04:55:02
User: samc
Functions: find
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Lists all directories under the current dir excluding the .svn directory and its contents
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get autoremove
2009-02-16 04:21:07
User: Skyrell
Functions: sudo
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Does a full update and cleaning in one line
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bzr init .;for file in `ls *.bz2`; do bzr import $file; bzr ci -m $file; done
2009-02-16 04:19:03
User: statik
Functions: file init
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converts a directory full of source tarballs into a bzr repository so you can compare different versions easily
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rgx_match() { python -c "import re; print re.search('$1','$2').groups()"; }
2009-02-16 04:07:54
User: jyro
Functions: python
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Test python regular expressions

One can test their python regex matching using this shell function.

for e.g.

rgx_match "translate\s*\(([0-9-.]+),([0-9-.]+)\)" "translate(162.11517,76.817357)"

('162.11517', '76.817357')

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