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Copy 3 files from 3 different servers and adds server name tag to file copied
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for i in `seq 1 3`; do scp finku@server$i:file.txt server$i-file.txt; done

finku · 2009-07-10 17:10:55 2
SSH monitor
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ssh root@server 'tail --max-unchanged-stats=10 -n0 -F /var/log/auth.log ' | grep Accepted | while read l ; do kdialog --title "SSH monitor" --passivepopup "$l" 3; done

skygreg · 2009-07-10 14:25:35 13
Printing multiple years with Unix cal command

print multiple increasing years using cal - calendar -. You can also try seq Start Increment End
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for y in $(seq 2009 2011); do cal $y; done

JesusSuperstar · 2009-07-10 10:07:46 26
Printing multiple years with Unix cal command

src: http://tinyapps.org/weblog/nix/200907090700_linux_cal_print_multiple_years.html
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for y in 2009 2010 2011; do cal $y; done

miccaman · 2009-07-10 09:06:01 26
Matrix Style

It's the same command as submitted, but first with a command to make all characters green. It's the only way it looked "matrix-like" on my gnome-terminal.
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echo -e "\e[31m"; while $t; do for i in `seq 1 30`;do r="$[($RANDOM % 2)]";h="$[($RANDOM % 4)]";if [ $h -eq 1 ]; then v="\e[1m $r";else v="\e[2m $r";fi;v2="$v2 $v";done;echo -e $v2;v2="";done;

Patola · 2009-07-10 04:20:43 6
Matrix Style

Another wall matrix :) Show Sample Output
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```
You can decrease/increase the bright numbers modifying the $h variable  , a higher number less brightness
```
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while $t; do for i in `seq 1 30`;do r="$[($RANDOM % 2)]";h="$[($RANDOM % 4)]";if [ $h -eq 1 ]; then v="\e[1m $r";else v="\e[2m $r";fi;v2="$v2 $v";done;echo -e $v2;v2="";done;

jhansen · 2009-07-10 00:54:21 6
Migrate gems from one ruby installation to another

gemInst.sh: #!/bin/bash for i in $@; do if [ "$1" != "$i" ] then echo /newInstall/gem install $1 -v=\"$i\" /newInstall/gem install $1 -v="$i" if [ "$?" != "0" ] then echo -e "\n\nGEM INSTALL ERROR: $1\n\n" echo "$1" > gemInst.err fi fi done
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/originalInstall/gem list | tr -d '(),' | xargs -L 1 sudo ./gemInst.sh

snakerdlk · 2009-07-09 21:46:06 4
IFS - use entire lines in your for cycles

When you use a "for" construct, it cycles on every word. If you want to cycle on a line-by-line basis (and, well, you can't use xargs -n1 :D), you can set the IFS variable to . Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat file
line one
line two
$ for i in `cat file`; do echo $i; done
line
one
line
two
$ export IFS=$(echo -e "\n")
$ for i in `cat file`; do echo $i; done
line one
line two
```
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export IFS=$(echo -e "\n")

darkpand · 2009-07-09 15:25:37 9
Move large numbers of files

In my job I often have to deal with moving 100,000 files or more. A mv won't do it because there are too many. This will move everything in the current directory to the target path.
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for f in *; do mv $f <target_path>; done;

fritz_monroe · 2009-07-09 12:07:49 10
Scan computers OS and open services on all network
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nmap -O 192.168.1.1/24

xptonix · 2009-07-09 10:57:51 4
ignore hidden directory in bash completion (e.g. .svn)

add it in ~/.bashrc install bash-completion
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bind 'set match-hidden-files off'

freestyler · 2009-07-09 10:05:13 6
let w3m usecookie
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alias w3m='w3m -cookie'

freestyler · 2009-07-09 09:01:55 4
extract all tgz in current dir
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ls *tgz | xargs -n1 tar xzf

freestyler · 2009-07-09 08:54:06 5
bbs in utf8 console
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luit -encoding gbk telnet bbs.sysu.edu.cn

freestyler · 2009-07-09 08:51:21 4
Uninstall all MacPorts that are no longer active
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sudo port installed | grep -v 'active\|The' | xargs sudo port uninstall

letterj · 2009-07-09 05:15:30 6

html2text: http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/ Show Sample Output

curl -sd q=Network http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete |html2text -width 100

commandlinefu · 2009-07-09 00:57:28 10

Compare a remote file with a local file
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vimdiff <file> scp://[<user>@]<host>/<file>

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:40:25 10
Compare a remote file with a local file

A little messy, but functional. Requires vim >= 7.x.
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vimdiff scp://[user@]host1/<file> scp://[user@]host2/<file>

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:39:36 8
Attempt an XSS exploit on commandlinefu.com

Mouse around the title of this item, and note that your cookies are being logged to the console. If I were evil, I could instead send everyone's cookies to my site, and then post up-votes on all my submissions using their cookies, and try to delete every other submission, until clfu was completely pwned by me, redirecting people to malware and porn sites, and so on. Update - now fixed.
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perl -pi -e 's/<a href="#" onmouseover="console.log('xss! '+document.cookie)" style="position:absolute;height:0;width:0;background:transparent;font-weight:normal;">xss</a>/<\/a>/g'

isaacs · 2009-07-08 22:26:15 30
Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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tar -C <source_dir> -cf . | tar -C <dest_dir> -xf -

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:20:45 5
Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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tar -C <source_dir> -cf . | tar -C <dest_dir> -xf

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:19:04 6
Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)
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du -ms * | sort -nk1

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:11:50 25
Search commandlinefu from the command line

There's probably a more efficient way to do this rather than the relatively long perl program, but perl is my hammer, so text processing looks like a nail. This is of course a lot to type all at once. You can make it better by putting this somewhere: clf () { (curl -d "q=$@" http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete 2>/dev/null) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/<a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +|\([0-9]+ votes,//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'; } Then, to look up any command, you can do this: clf diff This is similar to http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch except that it's just one line, so more in the spirit of CLF, in my opinion. Show Sample Output
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grep --color=auto -iRnH "$search_word" $directory

Grep for word in directory (recursive)                 
http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1144/grep-for-word-in-directory-recursive


grep -i --color=auto

Grep colorized                 
http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2004/grep-colorized
```
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(curl -d q=grep http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'

isaacs · 2009-07-08 22:10:49 13
find a word in multiple files avoiding svn

this command searches for a keyword or an expression in a path and avoids versionned files
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grep -r 'keyword keyword2' your/path/ | grep -v svn

anis · 2009-07-08 20:48:11 6
List all files in current directory by size
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du -sh *

erlebnishengst · 2009-07-08 20:11:13 6
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Synchronize date and time with a server over ssh

If you are stuck behind a firewall and want to synchronize time with another server but you do not want to port forward NTP (which uses UDP) then this command is handy. It gets the time from a server and sets the local time. It is not that accurate but I can live with a second or so drift.

Quickly create simple text file from command line w/o using vi/emacs

1. Issue command 2. After angled bracket appears, enter file contents 3. When done, type "EOF"

list files recursively by size

purge installed but unused linux headers, image, or modules

will purge: only installed apps: /^ii/!d avoiding current kernel stuff: /'"$(uname -r | sed "s/$.*$-$[^0-9]\+$/\1/")"'/d using app names: s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$.*/\1/ avoiding stuff without a version number: /[0-9]/!d

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Normalize volume output in MPlayer

Works really well for playing DVDs, which have the volume turned way down for some reason. The `2' method is better IMHO because it will adjust to changing loud/soft parts. If you want to add it to your ~/.mplayer/config: # format: volnorm[=method:target] # method: # 1: use single sample (default) # 2: multiple samples # target: # default is 0.25 af-add=volnorm=2:0.75

Easy file sharing from the command line using transfer.sh

Requires: curl xsel access to the internet(http://transfer.sh) This is an alias utilizing the transfer.sh service to make sharing files easier from the command line. I have modified the alias provided by transfer.sh to use xsel to copy the resulting URL to the clipboard. The full modified alias is as follows since commandlinefu only allows 255 characters: transfer() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "No arguments specified. Usage:\necho transfer /tmp/test.md\ncat /tmp/test.md | transfer test.md"; return 1; fi if tty -s; then basefile=$(basename "$1" | sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9._-]/-/g'); curl --progress-bar --upload-file "$1" "https://transfer.sh/$basefile" |xsel --clipboard; else curl --progress-bar --upload-file "-" "https://transfer.sh/$1" |xsel --clipboard ; fi; xsel --clipboard; }

Show the number of current httpd processes

Advanced ls using find to show much more detail than ls ever could

This alias is super-handy for me because it quickly shows the details of each file in the current directory. The output is nice because it is sortable, allowing you to expand this basic example to do something amazing like showing you a list of the newest files, the largest files, files with bad perms, etc.. A recursive alias would be: $ alias LSR='find -mount -printf "%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G %TF_%TR %CF_%CR %AF_%AR %#15s [%Y] %p\n" 2>/dev/null' From: http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

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