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-2sed -i 's/\t/ /g' yourfile
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16export PS1="C:\$( pwd | sed 's:/:\\\\\\:g' )\\> "
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0perl -e '$now=time; system "chsec -f /etc/security/passwd -s aixuser -a \"lastupdate=$now\""'
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This allows you to skip the banner (usually /etc/issue.net) on ssh connections. Useful to avoid banners outputted to your mail by rsync cronjobs.
1ssh -q user@server -
Validates and pretty-prints the content fetched from the URL. Show Sample Output
13curl -s "http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json?count=5" | python -m json.tool | less -R -
-3python -c "import platform; print platform.node()"
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Will edit *.db files in the same directory with todays date. Useful for doing a mass update to domains on a nameserver, adding spf records, etc. Looks for a string starting with 200 or 201 followed by 7 numbers, and replaces with todays date. This won't overwrite Ip's but i would still do some double checking after running this. Make sure your server's date is correct, otherwise insert your own serial number.
rndc reloadshould usually follow this command.7sed -i 's/20[0-1][0-9]\{7\}/'`date +%Y%m%d%I`'/g' *.db -
Here how to recover the remote backup over ssh Show Sample Output
8ssh user@host "cat /path/to/backup/backupfile.tar.bz2" |tar jpxf - -
Execute it from the source host, where the source files you wish backup resides. With the minus '-' the tar command deliver the compressed output to the standar output and, trough over the ssh session to the remote host. On the other hand the backup host will be receive the stream and read it from the standar input sending it to the /path/to/backup/backupfile.tar.bz2 Show Sample Output
13tar jcpf - [sourceDirs] |ssh user@host "cat > /path/to/backup/backupfile.tar.bz2" -
The command first deletes any old playlist calles playlist.tmp under /tmp. After that it recursively searches all direcotries under ~/mp3 and stores the result in /tmp/playlist.tmp. After havin created the playlist, the command will execute mplayer which will shuffle through the playlist. This command is aliased to m is aliased to `rm -rf /tmp/playlist.tmp && find ~/mp3 -name *.mp3 > /tmp/playlist.tmp && mplayer -playlist /tmp/playlist.tmp -shuffle -loop 0 | grep Playing' in my ~/.bashrc. Show Sample Output
2rm -rf /tmp/playlist.tmp && find ~/mp3 -name *.mp3 > /tmp/playlist.tmp && mplayer -playlist /tmp/playlist.tmp -shuffle -loop 0 | grep Playing -
get a list of currently running oracle dbs (identified by the pmon process) show the executable that spawned the process and show the ORACLE_HOME relative to the environment within which the process is running tailored to AIX (sed on linux behaves...differently) suggestions for a better way...please.
1ps -ef |grep oracle |grep pmon |awk '{print $2}' |xargs -I {} ps eww {} |grep pmon |grep -v grep |awk '{print $5 " " $6 " " $0}' |sed 's/\(S*\) \(S*\) .*ORACLE_HOME/\1 \2/g' |cut -f1,2,3 -d" " -
49find . -type d -empty -delete
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if you have problem threads problem in tomcat
1ps uH p <PID_OF_U_PROCESS> | wc -l -
This way you keep the file compressed saving disk space. Other way less optimal using named pipes: mysql -uroot -p'passwd' database <
5zcat database.sql.gz | mysql -uroot -p'passwd' database -
This command will output the total number of files in a SVN Repository. Show Sample Output
3svn log -v --xml file:///path/to/rep | grep kind=\"file\"|wc -l -
-3find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \;
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Finds all (not just adjacent) repeated lines in a file. Show Sample Output
0LC_ALL=C sort file | uniq -c | sort -n -k1 -r -
Remove all empty directories below the current directory. If directories become empty as the results of this, remove those too.
-2find . -type d | tac | xargs rmdir 2> /dev/null -
Bash scrip to test if a server is up, you can use this before wget'ing a file to make sure a blank one isn't downloaded.
-1if [ "$(ping -q -c1 google.com)" ];then wget -mnd -q http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif ;fi -
This works in Mac OS X (10.6.2) (natively comes with curl) usage: currency_convert $1(amount) $2(from_denomination) $3(to_denomination) Show Sample Output
1currency_convert() { curl -s "http://www.google.com/finance/converter?a=$1&from=$2&to=$3" | sed '/res/!d;s/<[^>]*>//g'; } -
0svn up | sed 's/\.//g' | cut -d ' ' -f3 | xargs svn log -r
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This will kill a specific process you don't know the PID of, when pidof and pgrep are not available, for example on OS X. var1 is created so that the whitespace can be trimmed before passing off to kill. Show Sample Output
-5export var1=`ps -A | grep '[u]nique' | cut -d '?' -f 1`; echo${var1/ /}; kill -9 $var1 -
eg: currency_convert 1 usd inr Show Sample Output
3currency_convert() { wget -qO- "http://www.google.com/finance/converter?a=$1&from=$2&to=$3&hl=es" | sed '/res/!d;s/<[^>]*>//g'; } -
0:/\c{pattern}
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-16nohup nautilus &
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