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List all authors of a particular git project
Gets the authors, sorts by number of commits (as a vague way of estimating how much of the project is their work, i.e. the higher in the list, the more they've done) and then outputs the results.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Exiftool adjust Date & Time of pictures
Change the original date set by camera : Create Date : 2020:08:21 13:26:24.63 //Operating System: Date Created (ie: sdcard) Date/Time Original : 2020:08:21 13:26:24.63 // Set by camrea when you point and click for photo Modify Date : 2020:08:21 13:26:24.63 //Operating System: Modified (ie: sdcard) Exif argument examples are : exiftool.exe ā€œ-DateTimeOriginal+=0:0:0 5:30:0ā€ filename.jpg (add 5 hours and 30 minutes to the Exif Date/Time Original) exiftool.exe" "-modifydate-=0:0:0 0:25:0" filename.jpg (reduce the Exif Modify Date to 25 minutes) exiftool.exe ā€œ-AllDates+=Y:M:D h:m:sā€ filename.jpg (Change all exif date values to Y:M:D h:m:s)

Filter IP's in apache access logs based on use
Show's per IP of how many requests they did to the Apache webserver

Recover tmp flash videos (deleted immediately by the browser plugin)
Newer versions of the flashplayer browser plugin delete the tmp flash video immediately after opening a filehandle to prevent the user from "exporting" the video by simply copying the /tmp/FlashXYZ file. This command searches such deleted flash videos and creates symbolic links to the opened filehandle with the same name as the deleted file. This allows you to play your flash-videos (from e.g. youtube) with e.g. mplayer or copy the buffered video if you want to keep it.

Get video information with ffmpeg

gpg decrypt several files
Change directory (cd) to the directory where all your encrypted files are placed, and then run the command - then you are asked to insert your secret gpg password - ubuntu 8.04

Create a new file

Show current pathname in title of terminal
This helps to keep track of what is going on when you have several tabs open in your terminal. The title automatically changes when you change directories.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials


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