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creates a bash function to remove certain lines from SSH known_hosts file

sometimes you got conflicts using SSH (host changing ip, ip now belongs to a different machine) and you need to edit the file and remove the offending line from known_hosts. this does it much easier. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ sshdel 30
< removes 30th line from the known_hosts file in ~/.ssh >
```
0

function sshdel { perl -i -n -e "print unless (\$. == $1)" ~/.ssh/known_hosts; }

xsawyerx · 2009-02-03 16:20:50 52
Flush and then immediately start watching a file

This is useful for keeping an eye on an error log while developing. The !^ pulls the first arg from the previous command (which needs to be run in a sub-shell for this shortcut to work).
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(> errors.log) && tail -f !^

root · 2009-02-03 16:08:19 94
Display which distro is installed
This is sample output - yours may be different.
77

cat /etc/issue

root · 2009-02-03 09:59:24 42
Block an IP address from connecting to a server

This appends (-A) a new rule to the INPUT chain, which specifies to drop all packets from a source (-s) IP address.
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iptables -A INPUT -s 222.35.138.25/32 -j DROP

root · 2009-02-02 12:42:04 76

Echo the latest commands from commandlinefu on the console

Self-referential use of wget. Show Sample Output

wget -O - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/rss 2>/dev/null | awk '/\s*<title/ {z=match($0, /CDATA\[([^\]]*)\]/, b);print b[1]} /\s*<description/ {c=match($0, /code>(.*)<\/code>/, d);print d[1]"\n"} '

root · 2009-01-30 19:16:50 29

send tweets to twitter (and get user details)

great for outputting tweets from cron jobs and batch scripts Show Sample Output

curl --basic --user "user:pass" --data-ascii "status=tweeting%20from%20%the%20linux%20command%20line" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json

g__j · 2009-01-30 18:08:35 86

Changes standard mysql client output to 'less'.

Changes standard mysql client output to 'less'. In another words makes query results of mysql command line client to look much better.
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5

echo -e "[mysql]\npager=less -niSFX" >> ~/.my.cnf

boombastic · 2009-01-29 11:45:52 52
scping files with streamlines compression (tar gzip)

it compresses the files and folders to stdout, secure copies it to the server's stdin and runs tar there to extract the input and output to whatever destination using -C. if you emit "-C /destination", it will extract it to the home folder of the user, much like `scp file user@server:`. the "v" in the tar command can be removed for no verbosity.
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tar czv file1 file2 folder1 | ssh user@server tar zxv -C /destination

xsawyerx · 2009-01-29 10:38:26 68
add all files not under version control to repository

checks which files are not under version control, fetches the names and runs them through "svn add". WARNING: doesn't work with white spaces.
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svn status |grep '\?' |awk '{print $2}'| xargs svn add

xsawyerx · 2009-01-29 10:33:22 81

Ping a URL sending output to file and STDOUT

The tee (as in "T" junction) command is very useful for redirecting output to two places. Show Sample Output

ping google.com | tee ping-output.txt

root · 2009-01-29 10:26:59 86

infile search and replace on N files (including backup of the files)

the addition of ".bk" to the regular "pie" idiom makes perl create a backup of every file with the extension ".bk", in case it b0rks something and you want it back
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perl -pi.bk -e's/foo/bar/g' file1 file2 fileN

xsawyerx · 2009-01-29 09:51:11 94
infile search and replace on N files

The "g" at the end is for global, meaning replace all occurrences and not just the first one.
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0

perl -pi -e's/foo/bar/g' file1 file2 fileN

xsawyerx · 2009-01-29 09:47:01 61
Display summary of git commit ids and messages for a given branch

Useful when quickly looking for a commit id from a branch to use with git cherry-pick. Show Sample Output
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```
0165c83d3ec75edded1066f4a042218748f5ef56     Added escaping of keywords on single view
94da1903caec853a3fd183405f3925e2e682b240     Test change to file
299fa310ddbb532a673e35f08c1944ae51f26261     Removed swap files
```
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git log master | awk '/commit/ {id=$2} /\s+\w+/ {print id, $0}'

root · 2009-01-28 13:32:08 87
Retrieve a list of all webpages on a site

This spiders the given site without downloading the HTML content. The resulting directory structure is then parsed to output a list of the URLs to url-list.txt. Note that this can take a long time to run and you make want to throttle the spidering so as to play nicely.
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URL=www.example.com && wget -rq --spider --force-html "http://$URL" && find $URL -type d > url-list.txt && rm -rf $URL

root · 2009-01-27 17:59:08 73
Download all images from a site

This recursively downloads all images from a given website to your /tmp directory. The -nH and -nd switches disable downloading of the directory structure.
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wget -r -l1 --no-parent -nH -nd -P/tmp -A".gif,.jpg" http://example.com/images

root · 2009-01-27 17:31:22 157
Command to keep an SSH connection open

This runs the uptime command every 30 seconds to avoid an SSH connection dropping due to inactivity. Granted there are better ways of solving this problem but this is sometimes the right tool for the job.
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watch -n 30 uptime

root · 2009-01-27 14:49:21 118
Add all files in current directory to SVN

The --force option bypasses the warning if files are already in SVN.
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1

svn add --force *

root · 2009-01-27 10:53:27 90
Run a command on a remote machine

This counts the number of httpd processes running. Show Sample Output
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```
36
```
3

ssh user@host "ps aux | grep httpd | wc -l"

root · 2009-01-27 00:46:17 308
Find the files that contain a certain term

Simple use of find and grep to recursively search a directory for files that contain a certain term.
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find /path/to/dir -type f -exec grep \-H "search term" {} \;

root · 2009-01-26 16:32:14 135
Create a zip archive excluding all SVN folders
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zip -r myfile.zip * -x \*.svn\*

root · 2009-01-26 13:47:49 159
Synchronise a file from a remote server

You will be prompted for a password unless you have your public keys set-up.
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rsync -av -e ssh user@host:/path/to/file.txt .

root · 2009-01-26 13:39:24 103
Runs previous command but replacing

Really useful for when you have a typo in a previous command. Also, arguments default to empty so if you accidentally run: echo "no typozs" you can correct it with ^z
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575

^foo^bar

root · 2009-01-26 13:25:37 133
Create a quick back-up copy of a file

Uses shell expansion to create a back-up called file.txt.bak
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cp file.txt{,.bak}

root · 2009-01-26 12:11:29 95
Analyse a PHP file for instantations and static calls

This grabs all lines that make an instantation or static call, then filters out the cruft and displays a summary of each class called and the frequency. Show Sample Output
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```
1 parent
1 product_Item
1 promotion_Base
1 swc_Response
2 product_ViewHelper
2 product_ViewTransformer
4 promotion_Tab
5 site_Template
6 self
```
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grep -o "$new \(\w\+$\|\w\+::\)" file.php | sed 's/new \|:://' | sort | uniq -c | sort

root · 2009-01-26 12:08:47 59
Efficiently print a line deep in a huge log file

Sed stops parsing at the match and so is much more effecient than piping head into tail or similar. Grab a line range using sed '999995,1000005!d' < my_massive_file
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sed '1000000!d;q' < massive-log-file.log

root · 2009-01-26 11:50:00 1750
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shell function which allows you to tag files by creating symbolic links directories in a 'tags' folder.

shell function which allows you to tag files by creating symbolic links directories in a 'tags' folder. The tag function takes a tag name as its first argument, then a list of files which take that tag. The directory $HOME/tags/tagname will then hold symbolic links to each of the tagged files. This function was modified from bartonski's (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10216) inspired by tmsu (found at https://bitbucket.org/oniony/tmsu/wiki/Home) with readlink function by flxndn (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10222). Example: $ tag dog airedale.txt .shizturc weimeraner.pl This will create $HOME/tags/dog which contains symbolic links to airedale.txt .shizturc and weimeraner.pl

ssh autocomplete

Autocomplete from .ssh/config

return external ip

cd to (or operate on) a file across parallel directories

This is useful for quickly jumping around branches in a file system, or operating on a parellel file. This is tested in bash. cd to (substitute in PWD, a for b) where PWD is the bash environmental variable for the "working directory"

Delete empty directories with zsh

This command uses the recursive glob and glob qualifiers from zsh. This will remove all the empty directories from the current directory down. The **/* recurses down through all the files and directories The glob qualifiers are added into the parenthesis. The / means only directories. The F means 'full' directories, and the ^ reverses that to mean non-full directories. For more info on these qualifiers see the zsh docs: http://zsh.dotsrc.org/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#SEC87

kill ip connection

needed; apt-get install tcpkill

See why a program can't seem to access a file

Sometimes a program refuses to read a file and you're not sure why. You may have display_errors turned off for PHP or something. In this example, fopen('/var/www/test/foo.txt') was called but doesn't have read access to foo.txt. Strace can tell you what went wrong. E.g., if php doesn't have read access to the file, strace will say "EACCESS (Permission denied)". Or, if the file path you gave doesn't exist, strace will say "ENOENT (No such file or directory)", etc. This works for any program you can run from the command-line, e.g., strace python myapp.py -e open,access... Note: the above command uses php-cli, not mod_php, which is a different SAPI with diff configs, etc.

Read info(1) pages using 'less' instead of GNU Texinfo

I like man pages, and I like using `less(1)` as my pager. However, most GNU software keeps the manual in the 'GNU Texinfo' format, and I'm not a fan of the info(1) interface. Just give me less. This command will print out the info(1) pages, using the familiar interface of less!

Set laptop display brightness

Run as root. Path may vary depending on laptop model and video card (this was tested on an Acer laptop with ATI HD3200 video). $ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness to discover the possible values for your display.

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