A great password generation tool. http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/

Within vi allow to empty a text file in one shot

The vi key sequence !}command will send the file contents from the cursor

to the next blank line as STDOUT to the command specified

and replace that sequence of file lines with the output of the command.

For example: sorting a block of data - !}sort

The sequence !{command will do the same but "upwards" (from the current position towards the start of the file.

head by default displays first ten lines of its output. Use 'head -nXX' to display the XX largest files

apart from not being generalisable to all shells, `Y <<< X` seems nicer to me than `echo X | Y`, e.g.

it reads easier, you type less, and it also looks cool

this exits bash without saving the history. unlike explicitly disabling the history in some way, this works anywhere, and it works if you decide *after* issuing the command you don't want logged, that you don't want it logged

... $$ ( or ${$} ) is the pid of the current bash instance

this also works perfectly in shells that don't have $$ if you do something like

Some commands (such as netcat) have a port option but how can you know which ports are unused?

A quick way to list services running

Python comments begin with a #. Modify to suit other languages.

Other uses: Instead of m0 use m$ for end of file or d for deleting all comments.

This command will replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in the current working directory and any sub-directories.

This command will replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in the current working directory.

This turns your iptables packet filter to a "Allow any from any to any" filter, so you can rule out any filtering issues when you have a problem to enable a connection from or to your host.

To re-enable it, run /etc/init.d/iptables restart

You can watch channels of your freebox, everywhere. With " vlc http://your-ip:12345 " on the client and ncurses vlc interface on the host. et voila

Change files case, without modify directories, recursively.

... fucking vfat

Extensible to other ugly extensions like *.JPG, *.Jpg etc..

Leave out the last pipe to sh to perform a dry run.

To resize photos without changing exif datas, pretty cool for gps tagging.

(Require ImageMagick)

This is useful for sending data between 2 computers that you have shell access to. Uses tar compression during transfer. Files are compressed & uncompressed automatically. Note the trailing dash on the listening side that makes netcat listen to stdin for data.

on the listening side:

explanation: open netcat to -l listen on -p port 2022, take the data stream and pipe to tar -x extract, -v verbose, -f using file filename - means "stdin"

on the sending side:

explanation: compress all files in current dir using tar -c create, -v verbose, -f using file, - filename - here means "stdout" because we're tar -c instead of tar -x, -w3 wait 3 seconds on stream termination and then end the connection to the listening host name_of_listening_host, on port 2022

Allows you to save progress without committing.

To revert to an undo point, svn revert then apply the undo point with patch.

Similar: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/373/archive-all-files-containing-local-changes-svn

The above was done using the i386 flashplayer plugin, and was installed on a AMD64 machine running an AMD64 kernel and AMD64 programs. the resulting plugin install ultimately didn't work for swiftfox (but worked for iceweasel) without also covering it with a nspluginwrapper which took a bit of fenangaling to get to work (lots of apt-getting) but it is a nice feature to be able to trick installers that think you need i386 into running on a amd64, or at least attempting to run on amd64. Enjoy