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sudo -i
2009-04-06 13:35:48
User: unixmonkey2868
Functions: sudo
Tags: shell root
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Root shell
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grep "install " /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '{print $4}' | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge
2009-04-06 13:06:04
User: skygreg
Functions: awk grep xargs
Tags: Debian
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Remove today's installed packages
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command > tmp && cat logfile.txt >> tmp && tmp > logfile.txt && rm tmp
2009-04-05 22:00:32
User: akoumjian
Functions: cat command rm
Tags: file redirection output stdout beginning redirect
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Append output to the beginning of a file.

Adds the stdout (standard output) to the beginning of logfile.txt. Change "command" to whatever command you like, such as 'ls' or 'date', etc. It does this by adding the output to a temporary file, then adding the previous contents of logfile.txt to the temp file, then copying the new contents back to the logfile.txt and removing the temp file.

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history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -r
2009-04-05 13:40:56
User: kayowas
Functions: awk sort uniq
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See most used commands

It will return a ranked list of your most commonly-entered commands using your command history

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rm -r .??*
2009-04-05 09:19:26
User: servermanaged
Functions: rm
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Remove all hidden files in a directory

Remove all hidden files in a directory excluding current dir . and parent dir .. with .??* that means files with at least two characters.

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shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/words | tee >(sed -e 's/./&\n/g' | shuf | tr -d '\n' | line) > /tmp/out
2009-04-05 05:29:06
User: jnash
Functions: sed tee tr
Tags: scramble, jumble, shuf
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Simple word scramble

enlubtsqyuse

cat /tmp/out

subsequently

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find . \( -type d -name .svn -prune \) -o -print | while read file ; do mergeinfo=`svn propget svn:mergeinfo $file` ; [ "$mergeinfo" != "" ] && echo -e "$file\n $mergeinfo\n" ; done
2009-04-04 23:26:03
User: troelskn
Functions: echo file find read
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Show all mergeinfo for a svn subtree
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svn propset svn:ignore "*txt" log/
2009-04-04 23:09:01
User: unixmonkey3142
Tags: svn
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Have subversion ignore a file pattern in a directory

If you don't want to commit files to subversion, and don't want those file to show up when doing an "svn stat", this command is what you need

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< /dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ | head -c $((1024 * 1024)) | tee >(gzip -c > out.gz) >(bzip2 -c > out.bz) > /dev/null
2009-04-04 13:23:01
User: jnash
Functions: bzip2 gzip head tee tr
Tags: bzip2, gzip, compression,
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gzip vs bzip2 at compressing random strings?

Does that count as a win for bzip2?

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sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*"
2009-04-04 01:41:48
User: peterc
Functions: grep sudo tcpdump
Tags: Network Os X grep tcpdump
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Show live HTTP requests being made on OS X

Replace "en1" with your network interface (on OS X, usually en0, en1, eth0, etc..)

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diff <(ssh alice cat /etc/apt/sources.list) <(ssh bob cat /etc/apt/sources.list)
2009-04-03 20:54:16
User: funollet
Functions: cat diff ssh
Tags: ssh diff remote
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Diff files on two remote hosts.
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/usr/local/bin/svn merge -r {rev_num}:HEAD https://{host}/{project}/branches/{branch_name} .
2009-04-03 15:43:32
User: kamiller
Functions: merge
Tags: svn merge
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SVN Command line branch merge

This will merge all of the changes from {rev_num} to head on the branch to the current working directory

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identify -ping imageName.png
2009-04-03 13:18:33
User: unixmonkey3142
Tags: Image processing ImageMagick
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Use ImageMagick to get an image's properties
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rm -rf `find ./ -iname *.svn*`
2009-04-03 07:03:56
User: gecco
Functions: rm
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delete all .svn directory in a directory
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dmesg | grep cpu
2009-04-03 01:57:04
User: kingji
Functions: dmesg grep
Tags: cpus
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get cpu info from dmesg

get cpu info from dmesg

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history | grep ssh
2009-04-03 01:35:52
User: haivu
Functions: grep
Tags: bash csh
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Search The History for a Particular Command (ssh in this case)

After seeing the command you wish to repeat, just invoke it using the ! syntax.

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ncal -e
2009-04-02 17:58:27
User: topher1kenobe
Tags: ncal dates
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Show the date of easter

ncal -e shows the date of Easter this year. ncal -e YYYY shows the date of Easter in a given year. ncal -o works the same way, but for Orthodox dates.

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ls -l | grep ^l
2009-04-02 17:47:36
User: haivu
Functions: grep ls
Tags: ls
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Show All Symbolic (Soft) Links

Shows all linked file and destinations. The 'ls -l' command lists the files in long (1 file per line) format, and the grep command displays only those lines that starts with an l (lower case L) -- a linked file.

Updated: Remove reference to hard links because this command does not apply to hard link as others kindly pointed out.

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cal -3
2009-04-02 17:40:38
User: haivu
Functions: cal
Tags: PIM
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Displays a 3-Month Calendar

the -3 show the previous, current, and next month.

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whatis [command-name]
2009-04-02 17:30:13
User: haivu
Functions: whatis
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Show a Command's Short Description

The whatis command displays a short description for the command you list on the command line. It is useful to quickly learn what a command does

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sudo vi /etc/fstab; Go//smb-share/gino /mnt/place smbfs defaults,username=gino,password=pass 0 0<esc>:wq; mount //smb-share/gino
2009-04-02 16:04:35
User: GinoMan2440
Functions: mount sudo vi
Tags: Filesystem bash vim sudo Linux mount macosx unix vi smb smbfs samba fstab gino
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automount samba shares as devices in /mnt/

the middle command between the ; and ; is the vi commands that insert that line into the last line of the file, the esc with the carets is literally hitting the escape key, you have to have the smbfs package installed to do it, I use it to access my iTunes music on my mac from my linux PC's with amarok so I can play the music anywhere in the house. among other things, it allows you to access the files on that share from your computer anytime you're on that network.

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save_state=$(stty -g);echo -n "Password: ";stty -echo;read password;stty "$save_state";echo "";echo "You inserted $password as password"
2009-04-02 15:57:05
User: acirulli
Functions: stty
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Hiding password while reading it from keyboard

Allow to read password in a script without showing the password inserted by the user

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find . -type f -size +25000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'
2009-04-02 15:01:17
User: benajnim
Functions: awk find ls
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List files above a given threshold

List files above a given size threshold.

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dstat -ta
2009-04-02 14:19:12
User: vutcovici
Tags: statistics Linux vmstat
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dstat - a mix of vmstat, iostat, netstat, ps, sar...

This is a very powerful command line tool to gather statistics for a Linux system.

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

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read -p 'Username: ' u;sudo -H -u $u xauth add $(xauth list|grep :$(echo ${DISPLAY: -4:2}));sudo su - $u
2009-04-02 13:24:53
User: vutcovici
Functions: echo grep read su
Tags: bash X11
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Propagate X session cookies on a different user and login as that user

Reads a username from

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