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file !$
2009-02-06 15:41:08
User: leprasmurf
Functions: file
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Use last argument of last command

Bash shortcut to work with the last argument of your last command

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pidof () { ps acx | egrep -i $@ | awk '{print $1}'; }
2009-02-06 15:33:46
User: pmbuko
Functions: awk egrep pidof ps
1
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Get a process's pid by supplying its name
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perl -e "use SOAP::Lite"
2009-02-06 15:26:37
User: leprasmurf
Functions: perl
0
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Perl check if library is installed

Quick command to check if Perl library is installed on your server.

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perl -pe 's/.+;//' ~/.zsh_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -r|head -10
2009-02-06 15:24:32
User: aoiaoi
Functions: perl sort uniq
2
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The top ten commands you use
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alias rot13='perl -pe "y/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;"'
2009-02-06 14:22:43
User: abcde
Functions: alias
3
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rot13 simple substitution cipher via command line

E.g. Useful for hiding spoilers in reviews, etc.

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guid(){ lynx -nonumbers -dump http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen | grep "\w\{8\}-" | tr -d ' '; }
2009-02-06 13:26:33
User: root
Functions: grep tr
-2
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GUID generator
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perl -le 'print join ", ", map { chomp; $_ } <>'
2009-02-06 12:50:43
User: jozef
Functions: join perl
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rows2columns

joins multiple lines to create single line with comma separated values. for example if we have an email addresses one per line (copy&paste from spreadsheet) it will oputput one line with comman separated addresses to put it to email client.

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gsed -e :a -e 's/\(<\/[^>]*>\)/\1\n/g;s/\(<br>\)/\1\n/g' page2.txt | sed -n '/<cite>/p;s/<cite>\(.*\)<\/cite>/\1/g' >> output
2009-02-06 12:45:20
User: shrimphead
Functions: sed
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extract links from a google results page saved as a file

From a saved page of google search results, split out all of the links for the results. Useful for creating apache rewrite rules from.

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perl -MHTML::Entities -ne 'print encode_entities($_)' /tmp/subor.txt
2009-02-06 12:44:24
User: jozef
Functions: perl
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encode HTML entities

Encodes HTML entities from input (file or stdin) so it's possible to directly past the result to a blog or HTML source file.

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find ~ -name '*.mp4' | xargs mplayer
2009-02-06 12:12:18
User: aoiaoi
Functions: find xargs
1
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play all mp4 files on home directory
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rsync -av --progress ./file.txt user@host:/path/to/dir
2009-02-06 11:51:51
User: aoiaoi
Functions: rsync
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rsync with progress bar.

transfer files from localhost to a remotehost.

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sed "s/^ABC/+ABC/" <file | sed "s/DEF$/DEF+/" | tr "\n" "~" | tr "+" "\n" | grep "^ABC" | tr "~" "\n"
2009-02-06 11:29:29
User: poboxy
Functions: grep sed tr
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Gives you what's between first string and second string included.

If the file content is :

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Blah blah blah

ABC

hello blah blah blah

bloh bloh bloh

DEF

Bah bah bah

-

You'll get:

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ABC

hello blah blah blah

bloh bloh bloh

DEF

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find . -exec grep "test" '{}' /dev/null \; -print
2009-02-06 10:49:00
User: rbattu
Functions: find grep
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search for the content in a directory
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fuman(){ lynx -width=$COLUMNS -nonumbers -dump "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/using/$1" |sed '/Add to favourites/,/This is sample output/!d' |sed 's/ *Add to favourites/----/' |less -r; }
2009-02-06 10:14:44
User: eterps
4
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fuman, an alternative to the 'man' command that shows commandlinefu.com examples

Example: fuman sed

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ssh -N -L2001:localhost:80 -o "ProxyCommand ssh someuser@hubmachine nc -w 5 %h %p" someuser@destinationmachine
2009-02-06 09:58:08
User: mischamolhoek
Functions: ssh
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setup a tunnel from destination machine port 80 to localhost 2001, via a second (hub) machine.

this is handy when the hubmachine is the only machine that can connect to the destination machine (allowed on ip by firewall) and you want to access it from your laptop.

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awk '!_[$0]++{print}'
2009-02-06 09:52:35
User: dz
Functions: awk
3
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uniq for unsorted data
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cd -
2009-02-06 09:35:18
User: m13a
Functions: cd
0
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Go back to the previous directory.
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touch /forcefsk
2009-02-06 09:19:46
User: rimaya
Functions: touch
0
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Force file system check
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pv access.log | gzip > access.log.gz
2009-02-06 08:50:40
User: p3k
Functions: gzip
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Monitor progress of a command

Pipe viewer is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion. Source: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/

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cat file.txt|perl -ne '$_=~s/\s+/\n/g; print $_;'
2009-02-06 08:47:18
User: foodie
Functions: cat
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Replace spaces with newlines

This command is useful for separating a text file where all the words are in one line. Any group of spaces will be replaced with a single newline. Instead of one long line of tokens. You'll have a long list of tokens. One token per line.

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for i in $(ls /the/path); do du -hs /the/path/$i; done
2009-02-06 08:44:48
User: michelem
Functions: du ls
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Get the size of every directories and files in a path recursively

A simple way using a for loop

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ps awwux|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq
2009-02-06 08:44:36
User: a_yasui
Functions: ps
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Get to the user for using system.
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date --utc --date "2009-02-06 09:57:54" +%s
2009-02-06 08:29:12
User: michelem
Functions: date
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Convert a date to timestamp

Simple way to get a timestamp from a date

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(sed 's/^/x+=/' [yourfile] ; echo x) | bc
2009-02-06 08:25:43
User: michelem
Functions: echo sed
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Quick way to sum every numbers in a file written line by line

If you have a file full of numbers written line by line, you can sum every line to get the total.

With a file like this:

3443535

9878977

67554

987798

232324

you will got:

14610188

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grep -r -l xxxxx . | xargs perl -i -pe "s/xxxxx/yyyyy/g"
2009-02-06 08:18:50
User: hassylin
Functions: grep perl xargs
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change the all files which contains xxxxx to yyyyyy

This script first find all files which contains word xxxxx recursively. Then replace the word xxxxx to yyyyy of the files.

Use case:

- Web site domain change

- Function name change of the program

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