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watch "netstat -plan | grep -v LISTEN | grep \":80 \" | awk {'print \$5'} | cut -d: -f 1 | uniq -c | sort -nk 1"
2013-09-05 13:50:00
User: simonsimcity
Functions: watch
Tags: monitoring httpd port 80
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Monitor open connections for httpd including listen, count and sort it per IP

Doesn't list connections to other ports than port 80. Not f.e. 8080 or 8091.

Excludes programs listening for connections, like your favorite webserver.

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cat part1.avi part2.avi part3.avi > tmp.avi && mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy tmp.avi -o output.avi && rm -f tmp.avi
2013-09-05 01:47:22
User: sudopeople
Functions: cat rm
Tags: video mplayer mencoder video editing
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Merge AVI-files without recoding

Useful for when you download movies split into < 700mb parts.

Credit to rich @ http://superuser.com/questions/318640/merge-avi-files-without-recoding-in-mac-os-x-lion

mencoder is generally included with mplayer.

MacPorts:

sudo port install mplayer
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for i in {1..6};do c=;d=;for u in `eval echo {1..$i}`;do c="$c../";d="$d..";eval "$d(){ cd $c;}"; eval "$d.(){ cd $c;}";done;done
2013-09-04 20:12:45
User: bbbco
Functions: echo eval
Tags: cd eval dot
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Number of .... indicate how far down to cd

Use dots to cd down directories instead of having to remember all of the pesky back slashes!

Better yet, works on even and odd number of dots! Now, just estimate how far down you want to traverse.

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sh -c 'url="http://youtu.be/MejbOFk7H6c"; vid="`for i in ".*youtu\.be/\([^\/&?#]\+\)" ".*youtu.\+v[=/]\([^\/&?#]\+\)" ".*youtu.\+embed/\([^\/&?#]\+\)"; do expr "${url}" : "${i}"; done`"; if [ -n "${vid}" ]; then echo ${vid}; else echo "${url}"; fi'
2013-09-04 19:33:09
User: qwertyroot
Functions: echo sh
Tags: bash youtube expr sh url url matching parsing regexp
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Parse YouTube url (get youtube video id)

url can be like any one of followings:

url="MejbOFk7H6c" url="http://youtu.be/MejbOFk7H6c" url="https://youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MejbOFk7H6c#t" url="//www.youtube.com/v/MejbOFk7H6c?hl=ru_RU&version=3&rel=0" url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MejbOFk7H6c?feature=player_embedded"

If url mismatching, whole url will be returned.

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bc <<<"..."
2013-09-04 14:14:49
User: mrbregis
Functions: bc
Tags: zsh arithmetic calculator
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command line calculator (zsh version)

Like in bash.

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tcpdump host <IP> -nXXv -s0 -w file.pcap
2013-09-04 07:24:04
User: harpo
Functions: host tcpdump
Tags: Network IP tcpdump tcp
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tcpdump whole packets to file in ascii and hex with ip adresses instead of hostname
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cat /var/log/apache2/access_logs | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | uniq -c | sort -n
2013-09-02 13:04:47
User: basvdburg
Functions: cat cut sort uniq
Tags: IP apache2 filter requests
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Filter IP's in apache access logs based on use

Show's per IP of how many requests they did to the Apache webserver

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python3
2013-08-31 22:38:43
User: codygman
Tags: zsh arithmetic calculator
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command line calculator (zsh version)
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curl ${URL} 2>/dev/null|grep "<${BLOCK}>"|sed -e "s/.*\<${BLOCK}\>\(.*\)\<\/${BLOCK}\>.*/\1/g"
2013-08-31 14:53:54
User: c3w
Functions: grep sed
Tags: bash curl regex html xml rss newsfeed
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extract XML RSS etc by tags such as <title> or <code> or <description>

set BLOCK to "title" or any other HTML / RSS / XML tag and curl URL to get everything in-between e.g. some text

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diff <(ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa) <(cut -d' ' -f1,2 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)
2013-08-31 14:01:33
User: fernandomerces
Functions: cut diff ssh-keygen
Tags: ssh key
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Check SSH public and private keys matching

Tested in bash4

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function mkdcd () { mkdir "$1" && cd "$1" }
2013-08-31 12:48:13
User: shinokada
Functions: cd mkdir
Tags: bash cd function mkdir bash tricks
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Create a directory and change into it at the same time
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dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda
2013-08-30 21:06:36
User: metaverse
Functions: dd
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dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda

removes all files/filesystems of a harddisk. It removes EVERYTHING of your hard disk. Be carefull when to select a device. It does not prompt for and second check.

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journalctl -f
2013-08-30 21:00:57
User: metaverse
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journalctl -f

a tail -f variant of systemd journal. Follow the most recent updates or if events are appended to the journal

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apt-cache -n dumpavail | grep 'Package:' | awk '{print $2 }'
2013-08-30 15:58:41
User: txmoose
Functions: apt awk grep
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Quick and dirty list of installed packages on deb based system
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port=32768; while netstat -atn | grep -q :$port; do port=$(expr $port + 1); done; echo $port
2013-08-29 17:55:55
User: presto8
Functions: echo expr grep netstat
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find an unused unprivileged TCP port

Should work with sh, bash, etc.

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ipcs -q | grep foo | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I ipcid ipcrm -q ipcid
2013-08-29 15:08:13
User: eko
Functions: awk grep ipcrm ipcs xargs
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Remove all message queues owned by user foo
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TAKEOWN /A /R /F c:\SomeFolder
2013-08-29 01:43:29
User: mokico
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Reset ownership of a folder/subfolders
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printTextInColorRed () { echo -e '\033[01;31m\033[K'"$@"'\033[m\033[K' ;} ## print text/string in color red
2013-08-28 10:06:59
User: totti
Functions: echo
Tags: echo color terminal print
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print text in color red

eg:

printTextInColorRed foo bar

foo bar [in red color]

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say () { mpv $(sed -E "s;([a-Z]*)( |$);http://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/\1.mp3 ;g" <<< $*); }; say hello world "how is it" going
2013-08-27 21:42:21
User: zvyn
Functions: sed
Tags: audio sed mpv
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Let google say something for you! (mpv can be replaced by any mp3-decoder)

Take a list of words and let mpv play the pronunciation-file from gstatic. Inspired by http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/12574/download-englishword-pronounciation-as-mp3-file.

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pulseaudio -k && pulseaudio --start >/dev/null 2>&1 &
2013-08-27 14:17:46
User: kokoparkletal
Tags: Ubuntu firefox pulseaudio sound fix
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Fix Ubuntu's Broken Sound Server
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notify-send -t 5000 "date" "$(date)"
2013-08-27 03:15:14
User: qcjn
Tags: notify-send
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pipe output to notify-send

you can put almost any command.

notify-send -t 0 "MOTD" "$(sed -n '/#^4/,/#$4/{/#^4\|#$4/!p}' motd2 | cut -d# -f2)" notify-send -t 0 "readfile" "$(while read mess; do echo $mess;done < motd2)"
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alarm() { perl -e 'alarm shift; exec @ARGV' "$@"; }; alarm 20 foo arg1
2013-08-26 19:40:55
User: fnds
Functions: exec perl
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Execute a command with a timeout

Found it at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/shell-scripting-run-command-under-alarmclock/

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mogrify -format gif -auto-orient -thumbnail 250x90 '*.JPG'&&(echo "<ul>";for i in *.gif;do basename=$(echo $i|rev|cut -d. -f2-|rev);echo "<li style='display:inline-block'><a href='$basename.JPG'><img src='$basename.gif'></a>";done;echo "</ul>")>list.html
2013-08-25 20:45:49
User: ysangkok
Functions: cut echo
Tags: thumbnails html mogrify
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Create thumbnails and a HTML page for listing them (with links to sources)

The input images are assume to have the "JPG" extension. Mogrify will overwrite any gif images with the same name! Will not work with names with spaces.

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db=example.mdb; backend=mysql; mdb-schema "$db" $backend | grep -v 'COMMENT ON COLUMN' && mdb-tables -1 "$db" | xargs -I {} mdb-export -I $backend "$db" {}
2013-08-25 18:39:27
User: garex
Functions: grep xargs
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Export ms access mdb to mysql sql

schema & tables

To export into another backends style, just change backend to one of: access, sybase, oracle, postgres, mysql and sqlite

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Amharic software
2013-08-25 16:01:29
User: Haimar19
Tags: tr xkcd shuf
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Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password
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