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Check availability of Websites based on HTTP_CODE
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8

urls=('www.ubuntu.com' 'google.com'); for i in ${urls[@]}; do http_code=$(curl -I -s $i -w %{http_code}); echo $i status: ${http_code:9:3}; done

Code_Bleu · 2009-08-17 16:24:26 5
count the appearance of a word or a string in a given webpage

Can be used to help perform some SEO optimizations. Show Sample Output
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```
$ wget -q -O- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux | grep -o 'torvalds' | wc -w
8
```
0

wget -q -O- PAGE_URL | grep -o 'WORD_OR_STRING' | wc -w

evalinux · 2009-08-17 13:08:46 4
Get table column names from an MySQL-database in comma-seperated form
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2

mysql -u<user> -p<password> -s -e 'DESCRIBE <table>' <database> | tail -n +1 | awk '{ printf($1",")}' | head -c -1

Cowboy · 2009-08-17 12:54:44 3
Merge ( directories [looking for improvement]

Using a GUI file managers you can merge directories (cut and paste). This command roughly does the same (it doesn't ask for confirmation (no problem for me) and it doesn't clean up the empty SRC directories (no problem, trivial). probably does the same: cp -l SRC TARGET; rm -rf SRC
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0

(cd SRC; find . -type d -exec mkdir TARGET/{} ";"; find . -type f -exec mv {} TARGET/{} ";")

karel1980 · 2009-08-17 12:35:48 11
omit grep
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-4

ps aux | grep [c]ommandname

alvinx · 2009-08-17 12:29:16 11
postgresql SQL to show count of ALL tables (relations) including relation-size

Postgresql specific SQL - to show count of ALL tables including relation-size (pg_relation_size = used space on filesystem) - might need a VACUUM ANALYZE before showing all counts correctly !
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1

SELECT relname, reltuples, pg_relation_size(relname) FROM pg_class r JOIN pg_namespace n ON (relnamespace = n.oid) WHERE relkind = 'r' AND n.nspname = 'public' ORDER BY relname;

alvinx · 2009-08-17 11:46:34 4
vim easter egg

inside vim try: :help 42 to get the meaning of life, the universe and everything !
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11

$ vim ... :help 42

alvinx · 2009-08-17 11:37:02 6
Resolve a list of domain names to IP addresses

Given a file of FQDN, this simple command resolves the IP addresses of those Useful for log files or anything else that outputs domain names. Show Sample Output
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```
75.10.158.189
75.10.246.46
75.10.206.45
75.10.237.138
```
1

awk < file.name '{ system("resolveip -s " $1) }'

alanwilliamson · 2009-08-17 08:09:39 11
Convert deb to rpm

converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats ... It also supports LSB packages.
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4

alien -r -c file.deb

userevolution · 2009-08-17 05:53:15 7
download and install the software package in one step
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0

rpm -ivh 'http://www.website.com/path/to/desired_software_package.rpm'

userevolution · 2009-08-17 05:08:58 7
Equivelant of a Wildcard

This is exactly the same as a wildcard - good for times when wildcards are disabled and when you want have a wildcard of a directory that is not your current ({`ls /path/to/dir`}). Does not work on older versions of Bash though.
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0

`ls`

matthewbauer · 2009-08-17 03:56:05 7
Unarchive entire folder

This will unarchive the entire working directory. Good for torrents (I don't know why they put each file into a seperate archive).
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-2

for f in *;do case "$(echo $f|sed "s/.*\.$[a-z\.]*$/\1/g")" in zip)unzip -qqo $f&&rm $f;;tar.gz|tar.bz2)tar xf $f&&rm $f;;rar)unrar e -o+ -r -y $f&&rm $f;;7z)7z e -qqo $f;;esac;done

matthewbauer · 2009-08-17 03:50:50 9
diff will usually only take one file from STDIN. This is a method to take the result of two streams and compare with diff. The example I use to compare two iTunes libraries but it is generally applicable.

diff is designed to compare two files. You can also compare directories. In this form, bash uses 'process substitution' in place of a file as an input to diff. Each input to diff can be filtered as you choose. I use find and egrep to select the files to compare.
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diff <(cd /path-1; find . -type f -print | egrep -i '\.m4a$|\.mp3$') <(cd /path-2; find . f -print | egrep -i '\.m4a$|\.mp3$')

drewk · 2009-08-17 00:49:31 6
total text files in current dir
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file -i * | grep -c 'text/plain'

markszabo · 2009-08-16 22:29:35 3
total text files in current dir

get files without extensions, get ASCII and utf-8 as "text/plain" Show Sample Output
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```
12
```
0

file -i * | grep 'text/plain' | wc -l

voyeg3r · 2009-08-16 21:22:46 4
Find out when your billion-second anniversary is (was).

This is the same command as this one, but for OS X. http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3053/find-out-when-your-billion-second-anniversary-is-was. Show Sample Output
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```
Mo 25 M?r 2013 23:24:41 CET
```
1

date -j -v +1000000000S -f %m%d%Y mmddYYYY

Zettt · 2009-08-16 20:42:29 11
Find out when your billion-second anniversary is (was). (on OS X)

This is the same command as this one, but for OS X. http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3053/find-out-when-your-billion-second-anniversary-is-was. Show Sample Output
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```
Mo 25 M?r 2013 23:24:41 CET
```
1

date -j -v +1000000000S -f %m%d%Y mmddyyyy

Zettt · 2009-08-16 20:41:30 5
insert ip range using vim

fast method for insert ip range using vim Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.0.4
192.168.0.5
192.168.0.6
192.168.0.7
192.168.0.8
```
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:for i in range(1,255) | .put='192.168.0.'.i | endfor

voyeg3r · 2009-08-16 18:48:11 4
Insert line number in vim

Use this command to insert line numbers in source files, .' ' control how spaces you insert after number. Show Sample Output
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```
1  "file: how insert number lines in vim
2  "site: http://vivaotux.blogspot.com
3  "  .'  ' --> number of spaces after number
```
0

:%s/^/\=line('.').' '

voyeg3r · 2009-08-16 17:48:03 9
Find out when your billion-second anniversary is (was).

Replace 12/31/1970 with your birth date.
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1

date -d12/31/1970+1000000000sec

clone · 2009-08-16 10:12:30 14
Compress blank lines in VIM

This command will squeeze all consequent blank lines (including those with only space and tab charactes) to one. It will also empty the resulting line (remove the "|s/.*//" part if you don't need that).
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3

:g/^\s*$/,/\S/-j|s/.*//

clone · 2009-08-16 10:01:15 7

Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.

Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size (in MB). You can see all files opened by just replacing grep to "/". Useful if you'd like to debug and check which extensions or files are taking too much memory resources in Firefox. Show Sample Output

FFPID=$(pidof firefox-bin) && lsof -p $FFPID | awk '{ if($7>0) print ($7/1024/1024)" MB -- "$9; }' | grep ".mozilla" | sort -rn

josue · 2009-08-16 08:58:22 7

Edit Crontab

this lets you edit a crontab file (which may be used as a backup as well) and insert this into your crontab. this way is especially handy, when multiple users are working on one account (e.g. root)
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-6

vi ~/.crontab && crontab ~/.crontab

micha · 2009-08-16 08:09:15 9
Network Information
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-5

ntop

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-16 05:24:31 4
System load information alongside process information in a similar style to top.
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-3

atop

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-16 04:45:04 3
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Convert CSV to JSON

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Merge PDFs with Ghostscript wrapped in a function

This is an expansion on a previous entry, which I've wrapped in a function and placed in my profile. The "$@" is a positional parameter, much like "$*", but the parameters are passed on intact, without interpretation or expansion; so you can simply call the function like this: mergepdf * This will output a merged PDF of all PDFs in the current directory. Alternatively, you can simply list them like so: mergepdf 00.pdf 01.pdf 02.pdf ... N.B. Passing a wildcard will merge all PDFs in the current directory in name order, e.g. 00.pdf 01.pdf aa.pdf ab.pdf

Making scripts runs on backgourd and logging output

Save all output to a log.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Change gnome-shell wallpaper

Random Number Between 1 And 256

It takes a byte from /dev/random whose source is the kernel entropy pool (better source than other solutions).

Number of CPU's in a system

This appears to do the same. Utility is verified to be present on Ubuntu and OpenSuse out-of-the-box.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

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Installing debian on fedora (chrooted)

list files recursively by size

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