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Display / view the contents of the manifest within a Java jar file

Displays the manifest within a jar file. Can use it to confirm version number, etc.
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$ unzip -p some-jar-file.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

unixmonkey7399 · 2009-12-10 05:54:16 5
Optimal way of deleting huge numbers of files
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find /path/to/dir/ -type f -exec rm {} +

cfajohnson · 2009-12-10 04:44:44 21
Get your public ip
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wget -qO - http://cfaj.freeshell.org/ipaddr.cgi

cfajohnson · 2009-12-10 04:34:57 3
Extract all urls from the last firefox sessionstore.js file used.
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sed -e 's/{"url":/\n&/g' ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | cut -d\" -f4

cfajohnson · 2009-12-10 04:31:31 4
Extract all urls from the last firefox sessionstore.js file used.

Require "grep -P" ( pcre ). If you don't have grep -P, use that : grep -Eo '"url":"[^"]+' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q) | cut -d'"' -f4
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grep -oP '"url":"\K[^"]+' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q)

sputnick · 2009-12-09 20:34:32 4
Collect a lot of icons from /usr/share/icons (may overwrite some, and complain a bit)

In other way of xargs, only with find -exec
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mkdir myicons; find /usr/share/icons/ -type f -exec cp {} ./myicons/ \;

glaudiston · 2009-12-09 17:52:23 4

Collect a lot of icons from /usr/share/icons (may overwrite some, and complain a bit)

Today I needed to choose an icon for an app. My simpler way: put all of /usr/share/icons in myicons folder and brows'em with nautilus. Then rm -r 'ed the entire dir. Show Sample Output

mkdir myicons && find /usr/share/icons/ -type f | xargs cp -t myicons

rodolfoap · 2009-12-09 17:43:28 7

list all opened ports on host

in loop, until the last port (65535), list all opened ports on host. in the sample I used localhost, but you can replace with any host to test. Show Sample Output
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```
port 22 opened
port 80 opened
port 631 opened
port 3306 opened
port 3690 opened
port 6665 opened
port 6666 opened
port 6667 opened
port 6668 opened
port 6669 opened
port 7048 opened
port 8079 opened
port 8280 opened
port 8885 opened
port 8888 opened
port 9127 opened
port 23791 opened
port 23943 opened
port 33556 opened
port 34482 opened
port 39447 opened
port 48030 opened
port 51687 opened

real    4m33.201s
user    1m16.657s
sys     2m42.194s
```
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time { i=0; while [ $(( i < 65535 )) -eq 1 ] ; do nc -zw2 localhost $((++i)) && echo port $i opened ; done; }

glaudiston · 2009-12-09 17:33:47 7
Get your public ip
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curl -s http://sputnick-area.net/ip

sputnick · 2009-12-09 16:10:54 3
Joke : prints line numbers in a longest way

This is a joke for @putnamhill and @glaudiston I'm pretty sure we can write longer if we want ;)
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perl -e 'use strict; use warnings; my $c; my $file = $ARGV[0]; open my $handle, "<", $file or die "$0: $file: $!\n"; while (<$handle>) { print $c++, " " x 5, $_; } close($handle);' <FILE>

sputnick · 2009-12-09 16:07:14 7
prints line numbers

Hi glaudiston, you can save a few chars by leaving out cat and pipe and still enjoy the added flexibility.
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while read str; do echo "$((++i)) - $str"; done < infile

putnamhill · 2009-12-09 15:11:25 3
random xkcd comic as xml
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curl -sL 'dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/' | awk -F\" '/^<img/{printf("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<xkcd>\n<item>\n <title>%s</title>\n <comment>%s</comment>\n <image>%s</image>\n</item>\n</xkcd>\n", $6, $4, $2)}'

putnamhill · 2009-12-09 15:02:32 4
prints line numbers

Yep, is hard, but is a way more flexible using pipe.
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cat infile | while read str; do echo "$((++i)) - $str" ; done;

glaudiston · 2009-12-09 14:05:09 3
View a random xkcd comic

Only need to install Image Magick package. Display a xkcd comic with its title and save it in /tmp directory If you prefer to view the newest xkcd, use this command: wget -q http://xkcd.com/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*$http:.*$" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'
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wget -q http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*$http:.*$" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'

laugg · 2009-12-09 13:41:25 7
Get your public ip using dyndns
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curl -s 'http://www.loopware.com/ip.php'

incognitus · 2009-12-09 11:27:48 3
recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files

If you can install rpl it's simpler to use and faster than combinations of find, grep and sed. See man rpl for various options. time on above operation: real 0m0.862s, user 0m0.548s, sys 0m0.180s using find + sed: real 0m3.546s, user 0m1.752s, sys 0m1.580s Show Sample Output
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```
john@raffles2:~/Desktop$rpl -R LOCALE LOC**E copy\ of\ ies4linux-2.99.0.1/ 
Replacing "LOCALE" with "LOC**E" (case sensitive) (partial words matched)
..............................................................
A Total of 189 matches replaced in 62 files searched.
```
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$rpl -R oldstring newstring folder

johnraff · 2009-12-09 03:15:31 9
Optimal way of deleting huge numbers of files

Optimal way of deleting huge numbers of files Using -delete is faster than: find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm find /path/to/dir -type f -exec rm {} + find /path/to/dir -type f -exec rm \-f {} \;
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find /path/to/dir -type f -delete

SlimG · 2009-12-09 01:30:52 13
recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files

This command find all files in the current dir and subdirs, and replace all occurances of "oldstring" in every file with "newstring".
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find . -type f -exec sed -i s/oldstring/newstring/g {} +

SlimG · 2009-12-09 00:46:13 15
Find and copy scattered mp3 files into one directory

This command copies all filenames in the current dir and subdirs that end in .mp3 regardless of case (also matches .MP3 .mP3 and .Mp3) It copies all the files to the "mp3" folder in your home directory. If you want to see the files that are beeing copied, replace "cp {}" with "cp -v {}"
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find . -type f -iname '*.mp3' -exec cp {} ~/mp3/ \;

SlimG · 2009-12-09 00:19:14 5

copy ACL of one file to another using getfacl and setfacl

If you copy windows file in e.g. cygwin the ACL might miss on the copied file. With this command you can copy the ACL of an existing file to another. WARNING: Existing ACL will get lost. Show Sample Output

getfacl <file-with-acl> | setfacl -f - <file-with-no-acl>

tcfusion · 2009-12-08 22:56:35 257

Router discovery
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traceroute 2>/dev/null -n google.com | awk '/^ *1/{print $2;exit}'

sputnick · 2009-12-08 21:44:45 24
Find and copy scattered mp3 files into one directory

No problem with word splitting. That should works on many Unix likes. Show Sample Output
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```
@mariusz : find shorter alternative
```
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find . -iname '*.mp3' -type f -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 cp {} </path>

sputnick · 2009-12-08 20:50:48 6
determine if tcp port is open

for udp nmap -sU -p 80 hostname
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nmap -p 80 hostname

solarislackware · 2009-12-08 20:25:28 3
Convert wmv into avi
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mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi

eastwind · 2009-12-08 19:50:50 3
Check your hard drive for bad blocks (destructive)

WARNING!!! ALL DATA WILL BE LOST!!! This command should ONLY be run on drives that are meant to be wiped. Data destruction will result from running this command with the '-w' switch. You may run this command with the '-n' switch in place of '-w' if you want to retain all data on the drive, however, the test won't be as detailed, since the '-n' switch provides a non-destructive read-write mode only, whereas '-w' switch actually writes patterns while scanning for bad blocks.
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badblocks -c 65536 -o /tmp/badblocks.out -p 2 -s -v -w /dev/hdX > /tmp/badblocks.stdout 2> /tmp/badblocks.stderr

mariusz · 2009-12-08 19:48:25 3
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Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry

Using DynDNS or a similar service not only allows access to your home machine from outside without needing to know what IP the ISP has assigned to it but it also comes in handy if you want to know your external IP address. The only purpose of the sed command is to remove the leading "host.na.me has address " part from the output. If you don't need to discard it you can simply use $ host $HOSTNAME

Mac OS X: Change Color of the ls Command

I use terminal with black background on the Mac. Unfortunately, the default ls color for the directory is blue, which is very hard to see. By including the line above in my ~/.bash_profile file, I changed the directory's color to cyan, which is easer to see. For more information on the syntax of the LSCOLORS shell variable: $ man ls I tested this command on Mac OS X Leopard

print only matched pattern

Print only the matched pattern at the console

Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Stop and continue processing on a terminal

This will send the ASCII sequence for DC3 to the currently running tty which results in SIGSTOP (19). You can continue with ASCII sequence for DC1 by pressing CTRL+q which results in SIGCONT (18).

List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

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Check a directory of PNG files for errors

Useful for checking if a large number of PNG files was downloaded successfully by verifying the built-in CRC checksum. For incomplete files, the command will print: "00002309.png EOF while reading IDAT data ERROR: 00002309.png" The process is very fast; checking 21,000 files of 5MB in size took only five minutes on a 2011 Intel mobile dual-core.

print contents of file from first match of regex to end of file

Search in "filename" for the first line to match regex, and print to stdout from the matching line to the end of the file.

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