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  • When browsing java source code (for example) it's really annoying having to type the first letter of the package when there is only one package in the subdir. man bash for more info about FIGNORE


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    export FIGNORE=.svn
    peter0081 · 2010-04-09 15:26:00 9
  • Some commands (such as sed and perl) have options to support in-place editing of files, but many commands do not. This shell function enables any command to change files in place. See the sample output for many examples. The function uses plain sh syntax and works with any POSIX shell or derivative, including zsh and bash. Show Sample Output


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    inplace() { eval F=\"\$$#\"; "$@" > "$F".new && mv -f "$F".new "$F"; }
    inof · 2010-04-09 11:36:31 11

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    sudo dmidecode --type=processor | grep -i -A 1 charac
    bzaman · 2010-04-09 11:12:27 3
  • This command will return a full list of Error 404 pages in the given access log. The following variables have been given to awk Hostname ($2), ERROR Code ($9), Missing Item ($7), Referrer ($11) You can then send this into a file (>> /path/to/file), which you can open with OpenOffice as a CSV


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    sudo awk '($9 ~ /404/)' /var/log/httpd/www.domain-access_log | awk '{print $2,$9,$7,$11}' | sort | uniq -c
    ninjasys · 2010-04-09 10:31:50 6
  • This command modifies the preferences file of Firefox that is located in .mozilla/firefox/*.default/prefs.js. It edits the file with sed and the -i option. Then it searches the string "browser.startup.homepage", and the string next to it (second string). Finally, it replaces the second string with the new homepage, that is http://sliceoflinux.com in the example. It doesn't work if you haven't set any homepage.


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    sed -i 's|\("browser.startup.homepage",\) "\(.*\)"|\1 "http://sliceoflinux.com"|' .mozilla/firefox/*.default/prefs.js
    sliceoflinux · 2010-04-09 08:00:22 6
  • This will list your phone's filesystem with bitpim. (works on many LG, Samsung, and Sanyo) See http://www.bitpim.org/help/phones-featuressupported.htm for full list.


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    bitpim -p $PHONE_PORT ls
    matthewbauer · 2010-04-09 02:20:53 10
  • Run the alias command, then issue ps aux | head and resize your terminal window (putty/console/hyperterm/xterm/etc) then issue the same command and you'll understand. ${LINES:-`tput lines 2>/dev/null||echo -n 12`} Insructs the shell that if LINES is not set or null to use the output from `tput lines` ( ncurses based terminal access ) to get the number of lines in your terminal. But furthermore, in case that doesn't work either, it will default to using the deafault of 12 (-2 = 10). The default for HEAD is to output the first 10 lines, this alias changes the default to output the first x lines instead, where x is the number of lines currently displayed on your terminal - 2. The -2 is there so that the top line displayed is the command you ran that used HEAD, ie the prompt. Depending on whether your PS1 and/or PROMPT_COMMAND output more than 1 line (mine is 3) you will want to increase from -2. So with my prompt being the following, I need -7, or - 5 if I only want to display the commandline at the top. ( https://www.askapache.com/linux/bash-power-prompt/ ) 275MB/748MB [7995:7993 - 0:186] 06:26:49 Thu Apr 08 [askapache@n1-backbone5:/dev/pts/0 +1] ~ In most shells the LINES variable is created automatically at login and updated when the terminal is resized (28 linux, 23/20 others for SIGWINCH) to contain the number of vertical lines that can fit in your terminal window. Because the alias doesn't hard-code the current LINES but relys on the $LINES variable, this is a dynamic alias that will always work on a tty device. Show Sample Output


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    alias head='head -n $((${LINES:-`tput lines 2>/dev/null||echo -n 12`} - 2))'
    AskApache · 2010-04-08 22:37:06 14
  • Finds the top ten pages returning an http response code of 404 in an apache log.


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    awk '$9 == 404 {print $7}' access_log | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
    zlemini · 2010-04-08 21:40:53 7
  • Add permanent line numbers to a file without creating a temp file. The rm command deletes file10 while the nl command works on the open file descriptor of file10 which it outputs into a new file again named file10. The new file10 will now be numbered in the same directory with the same file name and content as before, but it will in fact be a new file, using (ls -i) to show its inode number will prove this.


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    { rm -f file10 && nl > file10; } < file10
    zlemini · 2010-04-08 21:08:23 8
  • Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server. A slightly shorter version.


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    cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/* | egrep 'ServerAlias|ServerName' | tr -s ' ' | sed 's/^\s//' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sed 's/www.//' | sort | uniq
    chronosMark · 2010-04-08 15:50:34 2
  • Several people have submitted commands to do this, but I think this is the simplest solution. It also happens to be the most portable one: It should work with any sh or csh derived shell under any UNIX-like OS. Oh by the way, with my German locale ($LC_TIME set appropriately) it prints "g" most of the time, and sometimes (on Wednesdays) it prints "h". It never prints "y". Show Sample Output


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    date +%A | tail -2c
    inof · 2010-04-08 15:14:06 6
  • you may create an alias also, which I did ;-) alias sshu="ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null "


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    ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null root@192.168.1.1
    oernii2 · 2010-04-08 14:55:58 5

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    ls -lS
    javamaniac · 2010-04-08 14:37:46 4
  • Most of the "most used commands" approaches does not consider pipes and other complexities. This approach considers pipes, process substitution by backticks or $() and multiple commands separated by ; Perl regular expression breaks up each line using | or < ( or ; or ` or $( and picks the first word (excluding "do" in case of for loops) note: if you are using lots of perl one-liners, the perl commands will be counted as well in this approach, since semicolon is used as a separator Show Sample Output


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    history | perl -F"\||<\(|;|\`|\\$\(" -alne 'foreach (@F) { print $1 if /\b((?!do)[a-z]+)\b/i }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
    alperyilmaz · 2010-04-08 13:46:09 4
  • Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server.


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    cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/* | egrep 'ServerAlias|ServerName' | tr -s " " | sed 's/^[ ]//g' | uniq | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sed 's/www.//g' | sort | uniq
    chronosMark · 2010-04-08 08:51:17 5
  • Unpack and build a WebLogic 9 or 10 domain Show Sample Output


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    unpack.sh -domain=[PATH]/domains/mydomain -template=[PATH]/mydomain.jar
    andresaquino · 2010-04-08 01:51:06 4

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    pack.sh -domain=[PATH]/domains/mydomain -template=[PATH]/mydomain.jar -template_name="mydomain"
    andresaquino · 2010-04-08 00:20:55 4

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    svn log | grep "$LOGNAME" | grep `date '+%Y-%m-%d'`
    jimthunderbird · 2010-04-07 22:12:12 7
  • Not really an easier solution. But an example using && for (if last command returned 0). You can use || for (if last command returned other than 0).. Show Sample Output


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    prefix="10.0.0" && for i in `seq 25`; do ping -c 1 $prefix.$i &> /dev/null && echo "Answer from: $prefix.$i" ; done
    xeor · 2010-04-07 17:17:21 4
  • Usefull for when you don't have nmap and need to find a missing host. Pings all addresses from 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.254, modify for your subnet. Timeout set to 1 sec for speed, if running over a slow connection you should raise that to avoid missing replies. This will clean up the junk, leaving just the IP address: for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 10.1.1.$i | grep 'from' | cut -d' ' -f 4 | tr -d ':'; done Show Sample Output


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    for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 10.1.1.$i | grep 'from'; done
    SuperJediWombat · 2010-04-07 16:57:53 7

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    find . \( -type d -empty \) -and \( -not -regex ./\.git.* \) -exec touch {}/.gitignore \;
    rpavlick · 2010-04-07 14:40:14 6
  • By default bash expands an unbound variable to an empty string. This can be dangerous, if a critical variable name (a path prefix for example) has a typo. The -u option causes bash to treat this as an error, and the -e option causes it to exit in case of an error. These two together will make your scripts a lot safer against typos. The default behaviour can be explicitly requested using the ${NAME:-} syntax. A (less explicit) variation: #!/bin/bash -eu Show Sample Output


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    set -eu
    wipu · 2010-04-07 11:54:40 8
  • Count the occurences of the word 'Berlekamp' in the DJVU files that are in the current directory, printing file names from the one having the least to the most occurences.


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    find ./ -iname "*.djvu" -execdir perl -e '@s=`djvutxt \"$ARGV[0]\"\|grep -c Berlekamp`; chomp @s; print $s[0]; print " $ARGV[0]\n"' '{}' \;|sort -n
    unixmonkey4437 · 2010-04-07 11:15:26 8
  • every 1sec sends DD the USR1 signal which causes DD to print its progress. Show Sample Output


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    while :;do killall -USR1 dd;sleep 1;done
    oernii2 · 2010-04-07 09:23:31 9
  • piping through 'pv' shows a simple progress/speed bar for dd. This is a replacement for my otherwise favorite 'while :;do killall -USR1 dd;sleep 1;done' Show Sample Output


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    dd if=/dev/nst0 |pv|dd of=restored_file.tar
    oernii2 · 2010-04-07 09:21:18 22
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