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Copy 3 files from 3 different servers and adds server name tag to file copied
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for i in `seq 1 3`; do scp finku@server$i:file.txt server$i-file.txt; done

finku · 2009-07-10 17:10:55 2
SSH monitor
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ssh root@server 'tail --max-unchanged-stats=10 -n0 -F /var/log/auth.log ' | grep Accepted | while read l ; do kdialog --title "SSH monitor" --passivepopup "$l" 3; done

skygreg · 2009-07-10 14:25:35 13
Printing multiple years with Unix cal command

print multiple increasing years using cal - calendar -. You can also try seq Start Increment End
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for y in $(seq 2009 2011); do cal $y; done

JesusSuperstar · 2009-07-10 10:07:46 26
Printing multiple years with Unix cal command

src: http://tinyapps.org/weblog/nix/200907090700_linux_cal_print_multiple_years.html
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for y in 2009 2010 2011; do cal $y; done

miccaman · 2009-07-10 09:06:01 26
Matrix Style

It's the same command as submitted, but first with a command to make all characters green. It's the only way it looked "matrix-like" on my gnome-terminal.
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echo -e "\e[31m"; while $t; do for i in `seq 1 30`;do r="$[($RANDOM % 2)]";h="$[($RANDOM % 4)]";if [ $h -eq 1 ]; then v="\e[1m $r";else v="\e[2m $r";fi;v2="$v2 $v";done;echo -e $v2;v2="";done;

Patola · 2009-07-10 04:20:43 6
Matrix Style

Another wall matrix :) Show Sample Output
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```
You can decrease/increase the bright numbers modifying the $h variable  , a higher number less brightness
```
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while $t; do for i in `seq 1 30`;do r="$[($RANDOM % 2)]";h="$[($RANDOM % 4)]";if [ $h -eq 1 ]; then v="\e[1m $r";else v="\e[2m $r";fi;v2="$v2 $v";done;echo -e $v2;v2="";done;

jhansen · 2009-07-10 00:54:21 6
Migrate gems from one ruby installation to another

gemInst.sh: #!/bin/bash for i in $@; do if [ "$1" != "$i" ] then echo /newInstall/gem install $1 -v=\"$i\" /newInstall/gem install $1 -v="$i" if [ "$?" != "0" ] then echo -e "\n\nGEM INSTALL ERROR: $1\n\n" echo "$1" > gemInst.err fi fi done
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/originalInstall/gem list | tr -d '(),' | xargs -L 1 sudo ./gemInst.sh

snakerdlk · 2009-07-09 21:46:06 4
IFS - use entire lines in your for cycles

When you use a "for" construct, it cycles on every word. If you want to cycle on a line-by-line basis (and, well, you can't use xargs -n1 :D), you can set the IFS variable to . Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat file
line one
line two
$ for i in `cat file`; do echo $i; done
line
one
line
two
$ export IFS=$(echo -e "\n")
$ for i in `cat file`; do echo $i; done
line one
line two
```
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export IFS=$(echo -e "\n")

darkpand · 2009-07-09 15:25:37 9
Move large numbers of files

In my job I often have to deal with moving 100,000 files or more. A mv won't do it because there are too many. This will move everything in the current directory to the target path.
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for f in *; do mv $f <target_path>; done;

fritz_monroe · 2009-07-09 12:07:49 10
Scan computers OS and open services on all network
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nmap -O 192.168.1.1/24

xptonix · 2009-07-09 10:57:51 4
ignore hidden directory in bash completion (e.g. .svn)

add it in ~/.bashrc install bash-completion
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bind 'set match-hidden-files off'

freestyler · 2009-07-09 10:05:13 6
let w3m usecookie
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alias w3m='w3m -cookie'

freestyler · 2009-07-09 09:01:55 4
extract all tgz in current dir
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ls *tgz | xargs -n1 tar xzf

freestyler · 2009-07-09 08:54:06 5
bbs in utf8 console
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luit -encoding gbk telnet bbs.sysu.edu.cn

freestyler · 2009-07-09 08:51:21 4
Uninstall all MacPorts that are no longer active
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sudo port installed | grep -v 'active\|The' | xargs sudo port uninstall

letterj · 2009-07-09 05:15:30 6

html2text: http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/ Show Sample Output

curl -sd q=Network http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete |html2text -width 100

commandlinefu · 2009-07-09 00:57:28 10

Compare a remote file with a local file
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vimdiff <file> scp://[<user>@]<host>/<file>

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:40:25 10
Compare a remote file with a local file

A little messy, but functional. Requires vim >= 7.x.
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vimdiff scp://[user@]host1/<file> scp://[user@]host2/<file>

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:39:36 8
Attempt an XSS exploit on commandlinefu.com

Mouse around the title of this item, and note that your cookies are being logged to the console. If I were evil, I could instead send everyone's cookies to my site, and then post up-votes on all my submissions using their cookies, and try to delete every other submission, until clfu was completely pwned by me, redirecting people to malware and porn sites, and so on. Update - now fixed.
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perl -pi -e 's/<a href="#" onmouseover="console.log('xss! '+document.cookie)" style="position:absolute;height:0;width:0;background:transparent;font-weight:normal;">xss</a>/<\/a>/g'

isaacs · 2009-07-08 22:26:15 30
Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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tar -C <source_dir> -cf . | tar -C <dest_dir> -xf -

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:20:45 5
Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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tar -C <source_dir> -cf . | tar -C <dest_dir> -xf

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:19:04 6
Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)
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du -ms * | sort -nk1

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:11:50 25
Search commandlinefu from the command line

There's probably a more efficient way to do this rather than the relatively long perl program, but perl is my hammer, so text processing looks like a nail. This is of course a lot to type all at once. You can make it better by putting this somewhere: clf () { (curl -d "q=$@" http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete 2>/dev/null) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/<a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +|\([0-9]+ votes,//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'; } Then, to look up any command, you can do this: clf diff This is similar to http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch except that it's just one line, so more in the spirit of CLF, in my opinion. Show Sample Output
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grep --color=auto -iRnH "$search_word" $directory

Grep for word in directory (recursive)                 
http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1144/grep-for-word-in-directory-recursive


grep -i --color=auto

Grep colorized                 
http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2004/grep-colorized
```
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(curl -d q=grep http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'

isaacs · 2009-07-08 22:10:49 13
find a word in multiple files avoiding svn

this command searches for a keyword or an expression in a path and avoids versionned files
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grep -r 'keyword keyword2' your/path/ | grep -v svn

anis · 2009-07-08 20:48:11 6
List all files in current directory by size
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du -sh *

erlebnishengst · 2009-07-08 20:11:13 6
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gpg encrypt a file

gpg command to encrypt a file on the command line.

import a new set of files located in a local directory into a remote Subversion repository

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

Getting Screen's Copy Buffer Into X's Copy Buffer (on Linux)

This command will let you just type c-a b (which means press 'ctrl' then 'a' then 'b'), and screen will save your copy buffer to /tmp/screen-exchange, and then execute xsel to copy the contents of that file into the system's X clipboard. 1. Install Conrad Parker's xsel from http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/ 2. Add these lines to your .screenrc # Add cool line to make copying to x clipboard possible. # This binds C-a b to copy screen's copy buffer to the system clipboard. bind b eval writebuf 'exec /bin/sh -c "xsel -i -b < /tmp/screen-exchange"' 'exec /bin/sh -c "killall xsel"' 3. Restart screen. 4. Test it by typing c-a [ to enter copy mode. 5. Select some text using vi movement keys (h, j, k, l, etc...) and starting your selection by hitting the space bar, moving with vi movement keys, and then ending your selection with the space bar. 6. Type C-a b, and screen will use xsel to copy your screen copy buffer to the system's X clipboard buffer. 7. Then you can paste the screen copy buffer into any X program. Note: If you're using Mac OSX, you can use pbcopy instead of xsel. Also Note: The second exec in the .screenrc file, which runs killall on xsel, is necessary, because even when you redirect a file to xsel, xsel waits for you to press ctrl-c to kill it, and have it stop waiting for more input. Since xsel forces screen to wait, and I don't want to press ctrl-c, I send the equivalent of ctrl-c with killall causing xsel to write /tmp/screen-exchange to the X clipboard, and then exit. It's a hack, but it works. If you know how to get this to work without a lame hack leave a comment explaining how.

Count number of files in subdirectories

For each directory from the current one, list the counts of files in each of these directories. Change the -maxdepth to drill down further through directories.

Find files and calculate size of result in shell

Find files and calculate size with stat of result in shell

parse html/stdin with lynx

strips html from stdin

Alias for quick command-line volume set (works also remotely via SSH)

If you're addicted to command-line solutions of ordinary actions or if you just want to set your volume from bed via mobile phone SSH, you can set this alias and use it as $ setvol 50 for setting volume on 50% gain Works only with ALSA, tested on Ubuntu 8.10. Give me some info about your experience. TIP: Try aslo command "mute" to toggle mute/unmute sound. But I don't know if this works on all distros.

Run a command that has been aliased without the alias

Most distributions alias cp to 'cp -i', which means when you attempt to copy into a directory that already contains the file, cp will prompt to overwrite. A great default to have, but when you mean to overwrite thousands of files, you don't want to sit there hitting [y] then [enter] thousands of times. Enter the backslash. It runs the command unaliased, so as in the example, cp will happily overwrite existing files much in the way mv works.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

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