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sed 's/:/\n/g' <<<$PATH

2009-08-28 14:12:07

User: twfcc

Functions: sed

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Terminal - Show directories in the PATH, one per line with sed and bash3.X `here string'

another method :

awk '{gsub(/:/, "\n");print}'

ls *.c | while read F; do gcc -Wall -o `echo $F | cut -d . -f 1 - ` $F; done

2009-08-28 13:01:56

User: pichinep

Functions: cut gcc ls read

-7

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Compile all C files in a directory

Compile *.c files with "gcc -Wall" in actual directory, using as output file the file name without extension.

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URL="http://www.google.com";curl -L --w "$URL\nDNS %{time_namelookup}s conn %{time_connect}s time %{time_total}s\nSpeed %{speed_download}bps Size %{size_download}bytes\n" -o/dev/null -s $URL

2009-08-28 12:30:56

User: adminix

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How fast is the connexion to a URL, some stats from curl

mencoder -of avi -ovc lavc movie.avi -o movie2.avi; ffmpeg -i movie2.avi -r 12 -b 100 movie.flv

2009-08-28 11:05:21

User: dcabanis

Tags: video ffmpeg mencoder youtube codec

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Convert a VMWare screencast into a flv file

First, we convert the VMware avi (VMnc format) to the Microsoft avi format. Next, we convert the Microsoft avi format to FLV format.

You can play around with the -r switch (rate per second) and the -b switch (bitrate). But, if those get larger, so does your FLV file.

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find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} +

2009-08-28 08:44:11

User: pavanlimo

Functions: find

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dos2unix recursively

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dig google.com

2009-08-28 04:32:52

User: unixbhaskar

Functions: dig

Tags: dns

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Use dig instead of nslookup

It is a much better tool then nslookup for getting information about the any site.It has got better capability too.For reverse information please use the switch "-x" and the ip address.

ethtool eth0

2009-08-28 04:22:03

User: unixbhaskar

Tags: commandlinefu networking

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Get ethernet card information.

This is an commandline utility to get fair piece of information about the attached network card.

vnstat

2009-08-28 04:14:42

User: unixbhaskar

Tags: shell internet commandlinefu

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Get the information about the internet usage from the commandline.

A wonderful command line utility to check the internet usage. It has got so many useful switch to display the data you want.Please visit the man page to get all the information.Get it from this website http://humdi.net/vnstat

sudo /bin/netstat -tpee

2009-08-28 04:02:10

User: unixbhaskar

Functions: sudo

Tags: shell

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To get internet connection information .

To get the connection information of protocol tcp and extended infortmation.

dstat -afv

2009-08-28 03:53:24

User: unixbhaskar

Tags: shell

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dstat- this command is powerful one to monitor system activity . It has combined the power of vmstat,iostat,mpstat,df,free,sar .

As mentioned in the summery that it is a powerful command to monitor system activity in great way. It has got the power of vmstat,iostat,mpstat,df,free and sar.Instead of firing each single command separately ,one can fire one single command to get all the info at once.But there is a way to get the individual information too. Please see the man page . You can get it from here : http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

du -s `find . -maxdepth 1 \! -name '.'` | sort -n | tail

2009-08-28 00:24:11

User: hydhaval

Functions: du sort

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find dis1k space

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ssh -t hostA ssh hostB

2009-08-27 21:35:19

User: 0x89

Functions: ssh

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directly ssh to host B that is only accessible through host A

Of course you need to be able to access host A for this ;-)

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ls | while read f; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}";done

2009-08-27 16:43:56

User: liam

Functions: ls mv read

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Replace spaces in filenames with underscorees

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print -l $path

2009-08-27 16:33:04

User: Mikachu

Tags: zsh PATH

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Show directories in the PATH, one per line

This doesn't work in bash, but in zsh you can typeset -T to bind a scalar variable to an array. $PATH and $path behave this way by default.

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curl -s wap.kitco.com/exrate.wml | awk ' BEGIN { x=0; FS = "<" } { if ($0~"^<br/>") {x=0} if (x==1) {print $1} if ($0~"EUR/US") {x=1} }'

2009-08-27 16:30:19

User: jamaese

Functions: awk

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Get Dollar-Euro exchage rate

You can get others rates changing the "EUR/US" part. look at the url: wap.kitco.com/exrate.wml to get more options.

at 6:00 <<< "xmms2 play"

2009-08-27 16:30:07

User: Mikachu

Functions: at

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An alarm clock using xmms2 and at

I like the order of the arguments better this way.

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sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | tail -n1

2009-08-27 14:18:47

User: alvinx

Functions: du find sudo tail xargs

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get diskusage of files modified during the last n days

get diskusage of files (in this case logfiles in /var/log) modified during the last n days:

sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -n -type f | xargs du -ch

n -> last modified n*24 hours ago

Numeric arguments can be specified as

+n for greater than n,

-n for less than n,

n for exactly n.

=> so 7*24 hours (about 7 days) is -7

sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | tail -n1

qdbus org.kde.screenlocker /MainApplication quit

2009-08-27 13:57:00

User: Alanceil

Tags: KDE unlock session screensaver

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Unlock your KDE4.3 session remotely

The unlock command for KDE 4.3 has changed from krunner_lock, this process doesn't exist anymore. So here's the update :-)

If qdbus complains about not being able to find X, put a "DISPLAY=:0 " (:0 being your X server display) in front of the command.

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for x in `seq 0 25 $(curl "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse"|grep "Terminal - All commands" |perl -pe 's/.+(\d+),(\d+).+/$1$2/'|head -n1)`; do curl "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/$x" ; done > a.txt

2009-08-27 11:02:53

User: SuperFly

Functions: grep head perl

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Download entire commandlinefu archive to single file

'jot' does not come with most *nix distros, so we need to use seq to make it work. This version tested good on Fedora 11.

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echo "${PATH//:/$'\n'}"

2009-08-26 23:12:05

User: camspiers

Functions: echo

Tags: bash PATH

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Show directories in the PATH, one per line

Shorter version.

ssh middlehost "ssh -a [email protected] '> nicescript'" < nicescript

2009-08-26 20:25:12

User: 0x89

Functions: ssh

Tags: ssh scp

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scp a good script from host A which has no public access to host C, but with a hop by host B

Stop tormenting the poor animal cat!

Also you should not that you need a private key not protected by a passphrase on middlehost that grants you access to securehost..

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cat /service/solr/log/main/current | tai64nlocal | grep "$`date '+%F %H'`\|`date '+%F %H %M' | awk '{print $1" 0"$2-1":"$3}'`$" | grep QTime | awk '{print $NF}' | awk -F\= '{ s += $2} END {print s/NR}'

2009-08-26 14:02:02

User: allrightname

Functions: awk cat grep

-2

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Find the average QTime for all queries ran within the last hour for solr

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sudo aptitude unmarkauto $(apt-cache depends some-deb-meta-package-name | grep Depends | cut -d: -f2)

2009-08-26 12:56:33

User: yra

Functions: cut grep sudo

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Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manualy installed.

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manually installed. So they are not automatically removed if you remove some meta package - like gnome-desktop-environment for example.

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vim -e -s -c 'g/start_pattern/+1,/stop_pattern/-1 p' -cq file.txt

2009-08-26 10:22:27

User: syladmin

Functions: vim

Tags: vim block

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Display a block of text with vim with offset, like with AWK

By using vim, you can also filter content on stdout, using vim's extra power, like search pattern offset!

No more awk of course, sorry.

details :

-e ex mode

-s silent

-c 'ex command' : global + start and end pattern + offset print (p)

-cq : quit

for i in 192.168.1.{61..71};do ping -c 1 $i &> /dev/null && echo $i;fi;done

2009-08-26 06:04:24

User: AlecSchueler

Functions: echo ping

Tags: Network ssh bash

-2

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Echo the local IP addresses of the machines on your local network

If you need to ssh into a computer on the local network but you're unsure of the ip to use, then ping them and see if you get a response. If you do, print out the address you got it from. Adjust the range to suit your network.

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