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get time in other timezones

prints out the time for the timezone specified in $offsetutc. So you have less to think about things like: "I'm in utc+4 and my friend in utc-7, can I call him now or will I wake him?" Note: $offsetutc should be an integer between -12 and 12. Show Sample Output
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```
utc:   Fri Aug  7 23:07:24 UTC 2009
utc+2: Sat Aug  8 01:07:24 UTC 2009
```
0

let utime=$offsetutc*3600+$(date --utc +%s)+3600; date --utc --date=@${utime}

flokra · 2009-08-07 23:12:14 3
pipe commands from a textfile to a telnet-server with netcat

sends commands specified in $commandfile to the telnet-server specified by $telnetserver. to have newlines in $commandfile interpreted as ENTER, save the file in CR+LF (aka "Windows-Textfile") format. if you want to save the output in a separate file, use: nc $telnetserver 23 < $commandfile > $resultfile
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nc $telnetserver 23 < $commandfile

flokra · 2009-08-07 21:32:38 4
Get your external IP address
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wget http://checkip.dyndns.org && clear && echo && echo My IP && egrep -o '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}' index.html && echo && rm index.html

onkelchentobi · 2009-08-07 21:21:59 4
complete extraction of a debian-package

extracts the debian-package $debfile to $extractdir, including all packaging-information. to repack the package, just type: dpkg-deb -b $extractdir
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1

dpkg-deb -x $debfile $extractdir; dpkg-deb -e $debfile $extractdir/DEBIAN;

flokra · 2009-08-07 20:33:43 4
Get the size of all the directories in current directory
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1

sudo du -sh $(ls -d */) 2> /dev/null

Code_Bleu · 2009-08-07 19:00:09 4
Get the ip registered to a domain on OpenWRT

I use this in a script on my openwrt router to check if my DynDNS needs to be updated, saves your account from being banned for blank updates. Show Sample Output
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```
208.94.116.176
```
1

nslookup commandlinefu.com|sed 's/[^0-9. ]//g'|tail -n 1|awk -F " " '{print $2}'

thundernode · 2009-08-07 17:32:55 7
Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.

Same as original just no $ at start
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5

ssh-copy-id user@host

matthewbauer · 2009-08-07 16:36:19 20
gets the bare ip(s) of a domain

Strips the non-ip information from the dig output. Could be combined with "head -1" to ensure a single ip is returned. Useful for outputting as a variable for use in scripts. Show Sample Output
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```
208.94.117.60
208.94.116.176
208.94.117.125
```
0

dig commandlinefu.com | sed -nr 's/^[^;].*?\s([.0-9]{7,15})$/\1/ p'

birnam · 2009-08-07 16:11:31 4
Get a list of all your VirtualBox virtual machines by name and UUID from the shell

A similar command that lists only the currently running VMs is thus: VBoxManage list runningvms ...the above showing a list of VMs by name and UUID in the same format as the "$ VBoxManage list vms" command Show Sample Output
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```
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

"winxp-ie6" {487b8e10-e2f8-480c-a0be-a20b51d86848}
"winxp-ie7" {b5a97304-de94-4a6c-8d7c-88fa9d9054e0}
"winxp-ie8" {cb6f9885-1f27-479d-aea3-2b8b96deb628}
```
3

VBoxManage list vms

linuxrawkstar · 2009-08-07 12:43:04 4
run a VirtualBox virtual machine without a gui

you can launch a VirtualBox VM from the command line using VBoxManage, but that invokes it in a gui environment. If you want to just fire off your VM in the background, use VBoxHeadless as shown. To get the names and UUIDs of your VirtualBox VMs, type: VBoxManage list
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VBoxHeadless -s <name|uuid>

linuxrawkstar · 2009-08-07 12:36:32 4
Get internal and external IP addresses

Gets the internal and external IP addresses of all your interfaces, or the ones given as arguments Show Sample Output
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```
nathan@lion:~$ ips
lo   127.0.0.1      127.0.0.1
eth0 192.168.1.2    80.106.232.129
nathan@lion:~$ ips eth0
eth0 192.168.1.2    80.106.232.129
```
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ips(){ for if in ${1:-$(ip link list|grep '^.: '|cut -d\ -f2|cut -d: -f1)};do cur=$(ifconfig $if|grep "inet addr"|sed 's/.*inet addr:$[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g');printf '%-5s%-15s%-15s\n' $if $cur $(nc -s $cur sine.cluenet.org 128 2>/dev/null||echo $cur);done;}

frozenfire · 2009-08-07 10:04:46 3
Sum columns from CSV column $COL
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perl -ne 'split /,/ ; $a+= $_[3]; END {print $a."\n";}' -f ./file.csv

ioggstream · 2009-08-07 09:35:52 3
Generate random password

Generates password consisting of alphanumeric characters, defaults to 16 characters unless argument given. Show Sample Output
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```
frozenfire@sine:~$ randpw 10
9qDVnEYNGx
frozenfire@sine:~$ randpw
6PkWNDsFVTiuKmpX
```
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randpw(){ < /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c${1:-16};echo;}

frozenfire · 2009-08-07 07:30:57 7

benchmark web server with apache benchmarking tool

-n 9000 : Number of requests to perform for the benchmarking session -c 900 : Number of multiple requests to perform at a time Show Sample Output

ab -n 9000 -c 900 localhost:8080/index.php

amaymon · 2009-08-07 07:19:40 7

Go to parent directory of filename edited in last command
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cd `dirname $_`

amaymon · 2009-08-07 07:08:31 3
Generate Random Passwords
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0

dd if=/dev/urandom count=200 bs=1 2>/dev/null | tr "\n" " " | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g' | cut -c-16

amaymon · 2009-08-07 06:32:55 5
Go to parent directory of filename edited in last command

Uses the last argument of the last executed command, and gets the directory name from it. Use $!:t for the filename alone, without the dirname. Show Sample Output
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```
user@host:/home$ vim /path/to/file.txt
user@host:/home$ cd !$:h
user@host:/path/to$ 
```
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cd !$:h

lingo · 2009-08-07 00:37:08 10
Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files
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34

for I in $(mysql -e 'show databases' -s --skip-column-names); do mysqldump $I | gzip > "$I.sql.gz"; done

lingo · 2009-08-07 00:25:23 34
Test http request every second, fancy display.

Use the command watch, which is really hard to pass nested quotes to, and insert newlines where they are supposed to go in the HTTP request. that is after 1.1 after the host and two newlines at the end before the EOF. i use this all day what? no support for HEREDOCs on commandlinefu's interface? need more fu. Show Sample Output
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```
Every 1.0s: nc localhost 80 <<EOF                                                                                   Thu Aug  6 16:14:12 2009

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:14:12 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Debian) PHP/5.2.10-2 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0
Last-Modified: Tue, 12 May 2009 03:37:41 GMT
ETag: "54db7-2d-469aed1260b40"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 45
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body></html>
```
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watch -n 1 nc localhost 80 '<<EOF GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: tux-ninja Connection: Close EOF'

JustinHop · 2009-08-06 23:20:31 4
Copy files from list with hierarchy

If you want certain files out of a directory hierarchy, this will copy just the listed files, but will create the directory hierarchy in the new location ($DIR/)
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cat files.txt | xargs tar -cv | tar -x -c $DIR/

lingo · 2009-08-06 22:55:21 6
Get your internal IP address and nothing but your internal IP address

Will return your internal IP address. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.1.6
```
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ifconfig $devices | grep "inet addr" | sed 's/.*inet addr:$[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g'

matthewbauer · 2009-08-06 21:43:22 3
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
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rm -d **/*(/^F)

claytron · 2009-08-06 21:41:19 9
renombrar un archivo que inicia con guion

Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls 
algo.txt -help
$ mv '-help' help.txt
mv: opci?n inv?lida -- h
Pruebe `mv --help' para m?s informaci?n.
$ find . -name "-help" -exec mv {} help.txt \;
$ ls
algo.txt help.txt
```
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find . -name "-help" -exec mv {} help.txt \;

petrohs · 2009-08-06 20:43:30 8
Send SNMP traps
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sudo snmptrap -m ALL -v 2c -c public trapserver "" UCD-DEMO-MIB::ucdDemoPublic SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 s "Just here"

vutcovici · 2009-08-06 17:32:16 20
Create a backup of the file.

It will create a backup of the filename. The advantage is that if you list the folder the backups will be sorted by date. The command works on any unix in bash. Show Sample Output
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```
$ cp test.txt{,-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)}
$ ls -l test.txt*
-rw-rw-r--  1 user group 0 Aug  6 13:40 test.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 user group 0 Aug  6 13:41 test.txt-2009-08-06
```
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cp path/filename{,-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)}

vutcovici · 2009-08-06 13:50:00 5
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In-Place search/replace with datestamped backup

Does an in situ search-replace but leaves a datestamped backup. A variation with more precision: sed -i.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S 's/pattern/replace' [filename]

list files recursively by size

get the top 10 longest filenames

An alias to re-run last command with sudo. Similar to "sudo !!"

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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

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"

List the CPU model name

Extracts the model name of the CPU and displays it on screen.

convert a mp4 video file to mp3 audio file (multiple files)

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