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Replace lines in files with only spaces/tabs with simple empty line (within current directory - recursive)
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find . -type f -regex '.*\.$cpp\|h$' -exec sed -i 's/^[[:blank:]]\+$//g' {} \;

swarzynski · 2020-09-15 09:07:08 146
Find out how much ram memory has your video (graphic) card
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glxinfo |grep -i -o 'device|memory\|[0-9]\{1,12\} MB'|head -n 1

wuseman1 · 2020-09-14 02:12:47 774
find hard linked files (duplicate inodes) recursively

If you have two sets of files that may share hard-linked files, it can be useful to identify which ones are hard links to same underlying inode (file). This command shows you all of those, sorted by inode#. In my example the two directory trees to compare share a common parent, so I run the command in that parent and just use find . to start from the current directory. If yours are in different locations, you can pass both paths to find: find /directory1 /directory2 -type f -printf '%10i %p\n' | sort | uniq -w 11 -d -D | less Show Sample Output
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```
 190186228 ./10/alpha1/2612_fsm
 190186228 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/2612_fsm
 190203401 ./10/alpha1/pg_internal.init
 190203401 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/pg_internal.init
 190206322 ./10/alpha1/3079_fsm
 190206322 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/3079_fsm
```
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find . -type f -printf '%10i %p\n' | sort | uniq -w 11 -d -D | less

dmmst19 · 2020-09-13 22:12:58 387
Find ASCII files and extract IP addresses
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find . -type f -exec grep -Iq . {} \; -exec grep -oE "(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)" {} /dev/null \;

wuseman1 · 2020-09-13 03:06:22 307
Find out how much ram memory has your video (graphic) card

One liner is based on this article: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001307.htm Show Sample Output
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```
$ lspci|grep -i "VGA Compatible Controller"|cut -d' ' -f1|xargs lspci -v -s|grep ' prefetchable'
        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
```
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lspci|grep -i "VGA Compatible Controller"|cut -d' ' -f1|xargs lspci -v -s|grep ' prefetchable'

knoppix5 · 2020-09-11 14:04:10 274
Show which line of a shell script is currently executed

This way you don't need to replace first line of a bash foo.sh script #!/bin/bash with #!/bin/bash -x to obtain the same effect
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bash -x foo.sh

knoppix5 · 2020-09-10 19:56:42 180
Learn the difference between single and double quotes
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a=7; echo $a; echo "$a"; echo '$a'; echo "'$a'"; echo '"$a"'

knoppix5 · 2020-09-10 02:47:40 212
Get an audio notification if a new device is attached to your computer

dmesg -t: no timestamp -W: follow new messages -l: log-level notice gawk if the fourth word is "Attached" echo a sentence through espeak
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dmesg -tW -l notice | gawk '{ if ($4 == "Attached") { system("echo New device attached | espeak") } }

BigZ · 2020-09-06 08:18:26 274
Tail a log and replace according to a sed pattern

Tails a log and replaces it line-by-line according to whatever you want to replace. Useful if the file writing to the log can't be modified, so you need to modify its output instead. Show Sample Output
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```
echo "line1
find
line2" >> logfile

Output:
line1
replace
line2
```
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tail -F logfile|while read l; do sed 's/find/replace/g' <<< $l; done

tyzbit · 2020-08-07 12:26:39 453
Uniquely (sort of) color text so you can see changes

Colorify colors input by converting the text to a number and then performing modulo 7 on it. This resulting number is used as the color escape code. This can be used to color the results of commands with complex outputs (like "482279054165371") so if any of the digits change, there's a good chance the color will change too. I say good chance because there's only 7 unique colors here, so assuming you were watching random numbers, there would be a 6/7 chance that the color would change when the number changed. This should really only be used to help quickly identify when things change, but should not be the only thing relied upon to positively assert that an output has not changed. Show Sample Output
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```
$ colorify test
test (shows as orange)
$ colorify test2
test2 (shows as purple)
```
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function colorify() { n=$(bc <<< "$(echo ${1}|od -An -vtu1 -w100000000|tr -d ' ') % 7"); echo -e "\e[3${n}m${1}\e[0m"; }

tyzbit · 2020-08-06 15:17:45 396
tar and bz2 a set of folders as individual files

This version will work if "*screenflow" returns any results with weird characters, and will actually compress the tarballs.
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*screenflow' -exec tar jcvf {}.tar.bz2 {} \;

minnmass · 2020-08-02 22:34:14 141
tar and bz2 a set of folders as individual files

I use screenflow to create and edit videos. The default storage for a single video is a folder. If I want to move that someplace, it's easier to zip up the folder and send it. If I'm making a series of short videos, I might have 10 folders. This will go through and make a single bz3 file for EACH folder.
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for f in *screenflow ; do tar cvf "$f.tar.bz2" "$f"; done

topher1kenobe · 2020-08-02 21:10:27 162

List all accessed configuration files while executing a program in linux terminal (improved version)

Last listed files presumably have higher precedency then files listed first, i.e. configuration files in the personal .config directory will be listed last and their config parameters will be more authoritative then default config parameters defined in /etc directory which are usually listed above them. If you replace ".conf" with ".ini" in the command, initial files will be listed instead of config files. If you do not like to list multiple access to the same config file, pipe to "uniq" or "uniq -c" to prefix lines by the number of occurrences Show Sample Output

strace 2>&1 <any_executable> |egrep -o "\".*\.conf\""

knoppix5 · 2020-07-31 10:57:29 212

extract email addresses from some file (or any other pattern)
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grep -Eio '([[:alnum:]_.-]{1,64}@[[:alnum:]_.-]{1,252}?\.[[:alpha:].]{2,6})'

mikhail · 2020-07-22 22:40:33 138
Re-execute a command using a saved /proc/pid/cmdline file

Replace $CMDLINE_FILENAME with the name of the cmdline file you copied from /proc/pid, and $COMMAND with the command to execute with those arguments.
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tail -zn+2 $CMDLINE_FILENAME | xargs -0 $COMMAND

Sparkette · 2020-06-23 05:31:45 122
create an uncompressed tar file of each child directory of the current working directory

First, use find to find directories exactly one level below current directory, then create a tar file using the directory as the basename.
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find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec tar cvf {}.tar {} \;

unixmonkey64021 · 2020-06-21 14:34:44 142
rclone - include Service account blobs to your config

For easy portability you can include you service account blobs directly to your rclone config. So it generate a rclone config like the following: [dst977] type = drive scope = drive service_account_credentials = {"type":"service_account","project_id":"saf-ju66hcgi8qf8zidhvfww4oxwe7","private[.................] } Show Sample Output
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```
[dst977]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_credentials = {"type":"service_account","project_id":"saf-ju66hcgi8qf8zidhvfww4oxwe7","private[.................] }
[dst978]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_credentials = {"type":"service_account","project_id":"saf-ju66hcgi8qf8zidhvfww4oxwe7","private[.................] }
[....]
```
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bash -c 'COUNT=0; for i in $(find . -iname "*.json");do ((count=count+1));VAL=`cat ${i} | jq -c '.'` ; echo "[dst$count]";echo "type = drive";echo "scope = drive";echo "service_account_credentials = $VAL" ; echo "team_drive = 0AKLGAlhvkJYyUk9PVA" ;done'

dbiesecke · 2020-06-19 19:38:59 152
Login history Mac OS X

2d - is a shortcut for a period back in time Show Sample Output
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```
2020-05-28 21:49:37.140751+0200
2020-05-28 23:15:00.242348+0200
2020-05-29 11:20:36.974778+0200
2020-05-29 13:59:04.477616+0200
2020-05-29 15:11:21.299773+0200
2020-05-29 17:55:59.941100+0200
2020-05-30 09:12:55.268262+0200
```
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% sudo log show --style syslog --last 2d | awk '/Enter/ && /unlockUIBecomesActive/ {print $1 " " $2}'

Repie · 2020-05-30 07:27:17 107
Before any Dell Firmware update on Ubuntu, run

After install https://linux.dell.com/repo/community/openmanage/ (Complete, all), install these packages or you will get segfaults on update and it will fail.
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apt install raidcfg dtk-scripts syscfg smbios-utils sfcb cim-schema dcism

pqatsi · 2020-05-29 06:49:23 158
emulate a root (fake) environment without fakeroot nor privileges
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unshare -r --fork --pid unshare -r --fork --pid --mount-proc bash

glaudiston · 2020-05-23 12:40:24 155
parse and format IP:port currently in listen state without net tools

Useful for containers and environments where you need to know if a port is currently in listen mode but you have not easy way or privileges to install net-tools like netstat or ss. "0A" is the code for listen state. The IP hex is reverse order and all in hex format. Show Sample Output
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```
0.0.0.0:111
10.174.109.1:53
127.0.0.53:53
0.0.0.0:22
127.0.0.1:631
0.0.0.0:8000
```
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cat /proc/net/tcp | grep " 0A " | sed 's/^[^:]*: $..$$..$$..$$..$:$....$.*/echo $((0x\4)).$((0x\3)).$((0x\2)).$((0x\1)):$((0x\5))/g' | bash

glaudiston · 2020-05-23 12:36:21 152
Parse m3u playlist file for total time

Parse an m3u file with seconds for each item and output the length of the entire playlist Show Sample Output
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```
03:13:37
```
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awk -F":|," '{RS="#"; sec+=$2}END{h=(sec/3600);m=((sec/60) % 60);s=(s;printf("%02d:%02d:%02d\n", h, m, s)}' file.m3u

jonavon · 2020-05-16 18:55:32 102
Fix time-stamped filenames of JPEG images according to the EXIF date the photo was taken

For each *.jpg or *.JPG file in the current directory, extract the date the photo was taken from its EXIF metadata. Then replace the date stamp, which is assumed to exist in the filename, by the date the photo was taken. A trick from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/9256 is used to split the date into its components. Show Sample Output
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```
'2020-04-12 DSC_0146.JPG' -> '2017-12-26 DSC_0146.JPG'
'2020-04-12 DSC_0147.JPG' -> '2017-12-28 DSC_0147.JPG'
```
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(IFS=': '; for i in *.(#i)jpg; do set $(exiv2 -K 'Exif.Image.DateTime' -Pv $i 2> /dev/null); mv -v $i "$1-$2-$3${i#[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]}"; done)

langec · 2020-05-16 12:10:00 126
Generates a TV noise alike output in the terminal

Generates a TV noise alike output in the terminal. Can be combined with https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/9728/make-some-powerful-pink-noise
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while true;do printf "$(awk -v c="$(tput cols)" -v s="$RANDOM" 'BEGIN{srand(s);while(--c>=0){printf("\xe2\x96\\%s",sprintf("%o",150+int(10*rand())));}}')";done

ichbins · 2020-05-08 09:55:36 210
Check if port is open on remote machine

Check if port is open, if you don't have ncat on your machine. Show Sample Output
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```
Port is open
```
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echo > /dev/tcp/127.0.0.123/8085 && echo "Port is open"

jonavon · 2020-05-03 13:30:13 459
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Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Exclude inserting a table from a sql import

Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

Retrofit a shebang to an existing script

Function to add a shebang to an existing script, handy if you forgot to add it in the first place.

Kill any lingering ssh processes

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

Set name of windows in tmux/byobu to hostnames of servers you're connected to

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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Remove orphaned dependencies on Arch

-Qdt Lists dependencies/packages which are no longer required by any packages -q Output only package name (not the version number) -R Remove package(s) Rest is self-explanatory. I just started out with Arch - so if there is any better/standard method to achieve the same - please suggest.

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