All commands (14,187)

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

Share Your Commands


Check These Out

save command output to image
It's just because the original command was not working on version's 6.7.7-10.

Execute a command on multiple hosts in parallel
Ssh to host1, host2, and host3, executing on each host and saving the output in {host}.log. I don't have the 'parallel' command installed, otherwise it sounds interesting and less cryptic.

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)

output your microphone to a remote computer's speaker
This will output the sound from your microphone port to the ssh target computer's speaker port. The sound quality is very bad, so you will hear a lot of hissing.

Get a list of the erroring cifs entries in fstab
It disturbs me when my logwatch report tells me a share or machine has disappeared, esp as mount isn't telling me what's gone. This command outputs to stderr the erroring cifs entries from fstab.

Download free e-books
Mask the user agent as firefox, recursively download 2 levels deep from a span host with a maximum of 1 redirection, use random wait time and dump all pdf files to myBooksFolder without creating any other directories. Host will have no way of knowing that this is a grabber script.

find the rpm package name that provides a specific file
For Linux distributions using rpm (eg Mandriva), this command will find the rpm package name that provides a file.

Check the current price of Bitcoin in USD

To create files with specific permission:

Find the package that installed a command


Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for: