These are the parameters to ldapsearch (from ldap-utils in Ubuntu), for searching for the record for Joe Blogg's user. sAMAccountName is the LDAP field that ActiveDirectory uses to store the user name. 'DOMAIN\Joe.Bloggs' where "DOMAIN" is the the active directory domain.

Othewise you could use "CN=Joe.Bloggs,DC=example,DC=com" instead of "DOMAIN\Joe.Bloggs"

Place in .bashrc and invoke like this: "mecp /path/to/file", and it will copy the specified file(s) back to the desktop of the host you're ssh'ing in from. To easily upload a file from the host you're ssh'ing in from use this:

ucp (){ scp ${SSH_CLIENT%% *}:Desktop/upload/* .; }

An other way to run it ( playing a random file ending with avi, flv or mpeg ) from a specified dir and a specified type of extension :

making MOVIE array with a glob :

playing the random file from a random key from the array

I use only globs and a bash array.

I use GNU bash, version 3.2.48

Useful for use in other scripts for renaming, testing for extensions, etc.

I did not know this, i'd like to share...

Leave it to a proprietary software vendor to turn a cheap and easy parlor trick into a selling point. "Hey guys, why don't we turn our _collection of multiple files_ into a *collection of multiple files*!!" Extract the ^above with this:

^extract on any Unix - no need to install junkware!

(If you must make proprietary software, at least make it do something *new*)

if [ -e windows ]; then use 7-Zip

Fir3net.com

This shell snippet reads a single keypress from stdin and stores it in the $KEY variable.

You do NOT have to press the enter key!

The key is NOT echoed to stdout!

This is useful for implementing simple text menus in scripts and similar things.

This command use vnc to connect to another computer and emulate an dual-screen enviroment.

Example of use:

After this, if vnc server needs an password, will be prompt in the shell.

p.s.: sorry my english

Possible use, to filter something in stderr:

(/usr/bin/$COMMAND $PARAM 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 | grep -v $uninteresting_error ) 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3

ncdu is a text-mode ncurses-based disk usage analyzer. Useful for when you want to see where all your space is going. For a single flat directory it isn't more elaborate than an du|sort or some such thing, but this analyzes all directories below the one you specify so space consumed by files inside subdirectories is taken into account. This way you get the full picture. Features: file deletion, file size or size on disk and refresh as contents change. Homepage: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

^Hexadecimal Ten minus Octal Ten is Eight(in Decimal).

^Hexadecimal AF and Octal 257 are both Decimal 175.

Here the pattern is '*.jar', you could pass in any pattern.

Another, maybe nicer way to do this is

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1921/summarise-the-size-of-all-files-matching-a-simple-regex

You could replace sed with tr

w3m is a commanline web browser, full of options, I used -dump_head for less unnecessary page download.

With awk, I can retrieve dynamic changes in webpages in this very econnomical fashion

Uses htmldoc to perform the conversion

evento.sh needed for awk syntax

the aplay command makes a camera sound. It takes a picture of who looked at the display

#!/bin/bash

# evento.sh: deteta evento e fala

awk '{print}' | espeak -v pt -stdin

awk '/e/{print "emergencia"}' | espeak -v pt -stdin

aplay -q /home/mm/bash/camera.wav # -q inibe verbose do comand aplay

exit 0

Speaks whatever comes in via stdin (-v pt = portuguese, default = englisg)

..speech part of keyboard event talker. Made to accomplish a simple alarm central based on a cheap keyboard circuit. This way I have one zone per direct keypress. Depends on keypress.sh. It speaks out loud wich zone (key) has been pressed ( faulted ). Here is keypress.sh :

#!/bin/bash

# keypress.sh: Detect a user keypress ("hot keys").

echo

old_tty_settings=$(stty -g) # Save old settings (why?).

stty -icanon

Keypress=$(head -c1) # or $(dd bs=1 count=1 2> /dev/null)

# on non-GNU systems

aplay -q /home/mm/bash/beep-1.wav

echo

echo "Chamada quarto \""$Keypress"\"."

echo

stty "$old_tty_settings" # Restore old settings.

# Thanks, Stephane Chazelas.

exit 0

What do you do when nmap is not available and you want to see the hosts responding to an icmp echo request ? This one-liner will print all hosts responding with their ipv4 address.

Sort ls output of all files in current directory in ascending order

Just the 20 biggest ones:

A variant for the current directory tree with subdirectories and pretty columns is:

And finding the subdirectories consuming the most space with displayed block size 1k: