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Detect Language of a string

Usage: detectlanguage <phrase> Example: detectlanguage hola
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detectlanguage(){ curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/detect?v=1.0&q=$@" | sed 's/{"responseData": {"language":"$[^"]*$".*/\1\n/'; }

matthewbauer · 2010-03-08 03:24:56 7
Google Translate

Usage: translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language> Example: translate hello en es See this for a list of language codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes Show Sample Output
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```
hola
```
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translate(){ wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"$[^"]*$".*}/\1\n/'; }

matthewbauer · 2010-03-08 03:15:48 85
Your name backwards
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espeak "$USER" --stdout | sox - -t mp3 - reverse | mpg123 -

matthewbauer · 2010-03-08 02:53:24 4
Fetch the Gateway Ip Address

Better use iproute2 !
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ip route list match 0.0.0.0/0 | cut -d " " -f 3

BaS · 2010-03-07 15:41:18 3
Backup all mysql databases to individual files on a remote server

It grabs all the database names granted for the $MYSQLUSER and gzip them to a remote host via SSH.
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for I in $(mysql -e 'show databases' -u root --password=root -s --skip-column-names); do mysqldump -u root --password=root $I | gzip -c | ssh user@server.com "cat > /remote/$I.sql.gz"; done

juliend2 · 2010-03-07 15:03:12 7
Let's make screen and ssh-agent friends

When you start screen as `ssh-agent screen`, agent will die after detatch. If you don't want to take care about files when stored agent's pid/socket/etc, you have to use this command.
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eval `ssh-agent`; screen

mechmind · 2010-03-07 14:58:54 3
Fetch the Gateway Ip Address

same thing without loop ;)
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0

/sbin/route -n | grep "^0\.0\.0\.0" | awk '{ print $2 }'

BorneBjoern · 2010-03-07 13:59:57 5
Tell Analytics to fuck itself.

See http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html if you are unclear about the Google Analytics cookie system. If Firefox is your daily browser, be a good Orwellian and run this command regularly. If you see, 'SQL error near line 1: database is locked', close Firefox and run again.
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gofuckanalytics() { echo "DELETE FROM moz_cookies WHERE name LIKE '__utm%';" | sqlite3 $( find ~/.mozilla -name cookies.sqlite ) }

meathive · 2010-03-07 09:16:14 8
determine if a shared library is compiled as 32bit or 64bit

file displays a files type the -L flag means follow sym-links (as libraries are often sym-linked to another this behavior is likely preferred) more complex behavior (*two* grep commands!) could be used to determine if the file is or is not a shared library.
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file -L <library> | grep -q '64-bit' && echo 'library is 64 bit' || echo 'library is 32 bit'

infinull · 2010-03-07 06:31:35 3
determine if a shared library is compiled as 32bit or 64bit

Determines the flavor of a shared library by looking at the addresses of its exposed functions and seeing if they are 16 bytes or 8 bytes long. The command is written so the library you are querying is passed to a variable up font -- it would be simple to convert this to a bash function or script using this format. Show Sample Output
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```
/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 is a 32 bit library
```
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libquery=/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1; if [ `nm -D $libquery | sed -n '/[0-9A-Fa-f]\{8,\}/ {p; q;}' | grep "[0-9A-Fa-f]\{16\}" | wc -l` == 1 ]; then echo "$libquery is a 64 bit library"; else echo "$libquery is a 32 bit library"; fi;

birnam · 2010-03-07 04:24:08 3
Fetch the Gateway Ip Address

This is to fetch the Gateway Ip Address of a machine. Use the below format to put the value in a variable if you wish to find the gateway ip in a script GATEWAY=$(netstat -nr | awk 'BEGIN {while ($3!="0.0.0.0") getline; print $2}')
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netstat -nr | awk 'BEGIN {while ($3!="0.0.0.0") getline; print $2}'

freethinker · 2010-03-07 01:47:55 6
sort selected lines in a text file to the beginning or end of the file.

This function is used to sort selected lines of a text file to the end of that file. Especially useful in cases where human intervention is necessary to sort out parts of a file. Let's say that you have a text file which contains the words rough slimy red fluff dough For whatever reason, you want to sort all words rhyming with 'tough' to the bottom of the file, and all words denoting colors to the top, while keeping the order of the rest of the file intact. '$EDITOR' will open, showing all of the lines in the given file, numbered with '0' padding. Adding a '~' to the beginning of the line will cause the line to sort to the end of the file, adding '!' will cause it to sort to the beginning. Show Sample Output
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```
$ 2end /tmp/2end.txt
~000001 rough
000002  slimy
!000003 red
~000004 fluff
000005  dough
$ cat /tmp/2end.txt 
red
slimy
dough
rough
fluff
```
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2end () ( export LC_ALL=C; nl -n rz $1 > $1.tmp; ${EDITOR:-vi} $1.tmp; sort $1.tmp | sed -r 's/^.*[0-9]+\t+//' > $1; rm $1.tmp; )

bartonski · 2010-03-06 23:02:28 6
print all network interfaces' names and IPv4 addresses

ifconfig can't properly display interface's name longer 9 symbols,also it can't show IPs added thru ip command, so 'ip' should be used instead. This alias properly shows long names, bond interfaces and all interface aliases. loopback interface is ignored, since its IP is obvious Show Sample Output
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```
base0             10.0.2.15/24 
base0:1           192.168.0.1/27 
base0:managment   10.23.98.15/24 
vlan666           10.1.57.18/30 
vlan666:service   192.168.100.1/24 
```
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alias ips='ip a | awk '\''/inet /&&!/ lo/{print $NF,$2}'\'' | column -t'

zolden · 2010-03-06 20:33:04 3
conver mp3 to m4b
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mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -P -X -w -o output.m4b -

schmiddim · 2010-03-06 11:28:19 3

convert flac to mp3

if you haven't already done so, install lame and flac: sudo apt-get install lame flac Show Sample Output

flac -cd input.flac |lame -h - output.mp3

nickleus · 2010-03-05 23:54:21 4

List .log files open by a pid

Uses lsof to display the full path of ".log" files opened by a specified PID.
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lsof -p 1234 | grep -E "\.log$" | awk '{print $NF}'

zlemini · 2010-03-05 11:41:28 5
Super Paste

manda la salida de un comando hacia un servicio de paste y coloca la url de ese paste en el portapapeles
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(echo "" | xsel -o) ; (programa | wgetpaste -s dpaste | awk '{print $7}' | xsel -ai)

dvinchi666 · 2010-03-05 09:31:30 6
Read directory contents recursively
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ls -R .

stuntkiwi · 2010-03-05 03:13:20 5
Calculate the the last day of a month +/- from current month

This produces a parseable output of the last day of the month in future or past. Change the '-v-0m' to be a month plus or minus from the current system time. Show Sample Output
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```
:~ date  -j -v1d -v-0m -v-1d +'%m %d %Y'
02 28 2010
:~ 
```
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date -j -v1d -v-0m -v-1d +'%m %d %Y'

drewk · 2010-03-04 17:47:51 6
simple echo of IPv4 IP addresses assigned to a machine

ifconfig is dead, long-live iproute2 this also uses only awk to do the grepping and removal of CIDR notation Show Sample Output
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```
127.0.0.1
10.3.0.43
```
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ip addr | awk '/inet / {sub(/\/.*/, "", $2); print $2}'

markdrago · 2010-03-04 14:21:18 6
simple echo of IPv4 IP addresses assigned to a machine

Require the moreutils package Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.1.1
```
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ifdata -pa eth0

richard · 2010-03-04 10:29:24 4
Sort a character string

using perl
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echo sortmeplease | perl -pe 'chomp; $_ = join "", sort split //'

sharfah · 2010-03-04 08:31:19 3
simple echo of IPv4 IP addresses assigned to a machine

Easy way to grab the IP address of a machine for easy script use. If needed a "| grep -v 127.0.0.1" at the end will suppress localhost. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.15.250
127.0.0.1
```
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ifconfig | awk '/inet addr/ {print $2 }' | sed 's/.*://g'

Guyverix · 2010-03-04 08:15:08 5
Top ten (or whatever) memory utilizing processes (with children aggregate) - Can be done without the multi-dimensional array
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ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2] += $1; } END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", proc_list[proc],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10

bwm71 · 2010-03-03 16:51:48 3
Top ten (or whatever) memory utilizing processes (with children aggregate)

This command loops over all of the processes in a system and creates an associative array in awk with the process name as the key and the sum of the RSS as the value. The associative array has the effect of summing a parent process and all of it's children. It then prints the top ten processes sorted by size. Show Sample Output
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```
2472    NetworkManager
3624    getty
3888    hald
3948    nm-system-setti
3968    gdm
4012    bash
6384    sshd
14348   apache2
20560   console-kit-dae
22104   mysqld
```
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ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2]++; proc_list[$2 "," 1] += $1; } END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", proc_list[proc "," 1],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10

d34dh0r53 · 2010-03-03 16:41:05 5
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Find out how old a web page is

I used to use the Firefox "View page info" feature a lot to determine how stale the web page I was looking at was. Now that I use mostly Chrome I miss that feature, so here is a command line alternative using wget. The -S says to display the server response, the --spider says to not download any files/pages, just fetch the header. The output goes to stderr, so to grep it you use 2>&1 to combine the stderr stream with stdout, the pipe that to grep for Last-Modified. You can use curl instead if you have it installed, like this: $ curl --head -s http://osswin.sourceforge.net | grep Mod

move a lot of files over ssh

copy files to a ssh server with gzip compression

"Clone" a list of installed packages from one Debian/Ubuntu Server to another

Use lynx to run repeating website actions

This command will tell lynx to read keystrokes from the specified file - which can be used in a cronjob to auto-login on websites that give you points for logging in once a day *cough cough* (which is why I used -accept_all_cookies). For creating your keystroke file, use: $ lynx -cmd_log yourfile

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Import SQL into MySQL with a progress meter

This uses PV to monitor the progress of the MySQL import and displays it though Zenity. You could also do this pv ~/database.sql | mysql -u root -pPASSWORD -D database_name and get a display in the CLI that looks like this 2.19MB 0:00:06 [ 160kB/s] [> ] 5% ETA 0:01:40 My Nautalus script using this command is here http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post1253285.html#post1253285

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"

Uniformly correct filenames in a directory

Useful if non-ascii characters in filenames have been improperly encoded. Replace "PROBLEM" with the incorrect characters (e.g. 'é'), and "FIX" with the correct ones (e.g. '?').

Find the package that installed a command

Probably, most frequent use of diff

This form is used in patches, svn, git etc. And I've created an alias for it: alias diff='diff -Naur --strip-trailing-cr' The latter option is especially useful, when somebody in team works in Windows; could be also used in commands like $ svn diff --diff-cmd 'diff --strip-trailing-cr'...

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