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Get Interface's IP on Mac
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

ipconfig getifaddr <Interface>

commandlinefu · 2009-08-10 15:04:44 3
Get the size of all the directories in current directory

OSX's BSD version of the du command uses the -d argument instead of --max-depth.
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3

du -hd 1

Tuirgin · 2009-08-10 13:11:22 3
back up your commandlinefu contributed commands

Use `zless` to read the content of your *rss.gz file: zless commandlinefu-contribs-backup-2009-08-10-07.40.39.rss.gz Show Sample Output
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```
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 20487    0 20487    0     0  18344      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 97557
```
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curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/<your username>/rss|gzip ->commandlinefu-contribs-backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).rss.gz

linuxrawkstar · 2009-08-10 12:43:33 38

Picture Renamer

jhead is a very nice tool to do all sorts of things with photographs, in a batch-oriented way. It has a specific function to rename files based on dates, and the format I used above was just an example. Show Sample Output

jhead -n%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.jpg

sitaramcUnused · 2009-08-10 03:49:30 6

Picture Renamer

Renames all the jpg files as their timestamps with ".jpg" extension. Show Sample Output
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```
2008-09-26 20-59-03.jpg  2008-10-25 22-27-45.jpg  2008-12-19 22-07-51.jpg
2008-10-02 15-01-42.jpg  2008-10-25 22-28-02.jpg  2008-12-19 22-07-59.jpg
2008-10-02 15-25-34.jpg  2008-11-04 16-44-20.jpg  2008-12-19 22-09-54.jpg
```
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ls -1 *.jpg | while read fn; do export pa=`exiv2 "$fn" | grep timestamp | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 ".jpg"}' | tr ":" "-"`; mv "$fn" "$pa"; done

axanc · 2009-08-10 00:52:22 3
Define an alias with a correct completion

In Bash, when defining an alias, one usually loses the completion related to the function used in that alias (that completion is usually defined in /etc/bash_completion using the complete builtin). It's easy to reuse the work done for that completion in order to have smart completion for our alias. That's what is done by this command line (that's only an example but it may be very easy to reuse). Note 1 : You can use given command line in a loop "for old in apt-get apt-cache" if you want to define aliases like that for many commands. Note 2 : You can put the output of the command directly in your .bashrc file (after the ". /etc/bash_completion") to always have the alias and its completion Show Sample Output
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```
# at the beginning
$ sudo apt-get in<tab> # gives "sudo apt-get install" (smart completion)
# then su-apt-get='sudo apt-get'
$ su-apt-get in<tab> # gives "su-apt-get in" (no completion)
# finally with given command
$ su-apt-get in<tab> # gives "su-apt-get install" (smart completion \o/)
```
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old='apt-get'; new="su-${old}"; command="sudo ${old}"; alias "${new}=${command}"; $( complete | sed -n "s/${old}$/${new}/p" ); alias ${new}; complete -p ${new}

Josay · 2009-08-10 00:15:05 4
Convert every eps in a directory to pdf

Converts every *.eps file to a *.pdf file
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for f in *.eps;do ps2pdf -dEPSCrop $f `basename $f .eps`.pdf; done

rader5 · 2009-08-09 20:58:07 4
Replace Every occurrence of a word in a file

Replace 'this' with 'that'
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perl -p -i -e 's/this/that/g' filename

rader5 · 2009-08-09 20:53:50 8
currently mounted filesystems in nice layout

since fuse mounts do not appear in /etc/mtab (fuse can't write there, dunno if it would if it could) this is propably a better way.
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column -t /proc/mounts

unixmonkey5049 · 2009-08-09 17:00:41 6
Script para hacer un acopia d ela base de datos mysql

Tres lineas en un shell script para copiar la base de datos diaramente
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FECHA=$(date +"%F") FINAL="$FECHA.sql.gz" mysqldump -h localhost -u user --password="pass" --opt jdiaz61_lupajuridica | gzip > /home/jdiaz61/www/backup/$FINAL

juancabo · 2009-08-09 14:51:46 5
Convert one file from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.

Nothing fancy it just converts one file from one character encoding into another one.
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iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 iso.txt > utf.txt

jsiei97 · 2009-08-09 14:22:09 5
Remove newlines from output

Remove newlines from output. One character shorter than awk /./ filename and doesn't use a superfluous cat. To be fair though, I'm pretty sure fraktil was thinking being able to nuke newlines from any command is much more useful than just from one file.
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grep . filename

TheMightyBuzzard · 2009-08-09 05:33:58 12
Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry

Easy way to see your real external IP Show Sample Output
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```
127.0.0.1
```
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curl www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp

dunka · 2009-08-09 04:08:41 3
Update program providing java on Debian

Lets you set all the java alternatives at once to a matching version. Also has options for just changing the jre or the plugin.
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2

update-java-alternatives

stuart · 2009-08-09 02:43:06 6
Stage only portions of the changes to a file.
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git add --patch <filename>

stuart · 2009-08-09 02:24:43 3
A fun thing to do with ram is actually open it up and take a peek. This command will show you all the string (plain text) values in ram

cat? dd? RTFM
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sudo strings /dev/mem

point_to_null · 2009-08-09 02:07:26 12
Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry
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dig +short $HOSTNAME

stuart · 2009-08-09 02:05:38 5
Remove newlines from output

?Cat and grep? You can use only grep ("grep \. filename"). Better option is awk.
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awk /./ filename

point_to_null · 2009-08-09 02:04:46 4
Remove newlines from output

Pipe any output to "grep ." and blank lines will not be printed.
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cat filename | grep .

fraktil · 2009-08-09 01:00:59 4
A fun thing to do with ram is actually open it up and take a peek. This command will show you all the string (plain text) values in ram
This is sample output - yours may be different.
6

strings /dev/mem|less

fraktil · 2009-08-09 00:56:06 8
32 bits or 64 bits?

Easy and direct way to find this out. Show Sample Output
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```
32
```
124

getconf LONG_BIT

caiosba · 2009-08-08 21:22:19 61
Get your external IP address if your machine has a DNS entry

Using DynDNS or a similar service not only allows access to your home machine from outside without needing to know what IP the ISP has assigned to it but it also comes in handy if you want to know your external IP address. The only purpose of the sed command is to remove the leading "host.na.me has address " part from the output. If you don't need to discard it you can simply use host $HOSTNAME
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host $HOSTNAME|cut -d' ' -f4

penpen · 2009-08-08 12:39:00 5
get time in other timezones

On Ubuntu, if tzwatch is installed, then you can call up in terminal the output for every time zone configured in gWorldClock. Show Sample Output
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```
Fri Aug  7 18:23:49 PDT 2009   Local
Sat Aug  8 11:23:49 EST 2009   Australia/Sydney
Sat Aug  8 02:23:49 WEST 2009   Europe/Lisbon
Sat Aug  8 02:23:49 BST 2009   Europe/London
```
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tzwatch

terry2wa · 2009-08-08 01:26:08 3
get time in other timezones

On Ubuntu, if tzwatch is installed, then you can call up in terminal the output for every time zone configured in gWorldClock. Show Sample Output
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```
Fri Aug  7 18:23:49 PDT 2009   Local
Sat Aug  8 11:23:49 EST 2009   Australia/Sydney
Sat Aug  8 02:23:49 WEST 2009   Europe/Lisbon
Sat Aug  8 02:23:49 BST 2009   Europe/London
```
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tzwatch

terry2wa · 2009-08-08 01:25:50 4
Get the size of all the directories in current directory
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du --max-depth=1

Octave · 2009-08-08 00:46:29 15
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Benchmark SQL Query

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Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Update program providing java on Debian

Lets you set all the java alternatives at once to a matching version. Also has options for just changing the jre or the plugin.

Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition

Shows the UUID of a filesystem or partition that can be used in kernel root options and in fstab. Run it without the -u option to generate more information. eg: ~/ sudo vol_id /dev/sda2 ID_FS_USAGE=other ID_FS_TYPE=swap ID_FS_VERSION=2 ID_FS_UUID=27fca13d-97b7-4d28-882c-6d03353f0a82 ID_FS_UUID_ENC=27fca13d-97b7-4d28-882c-6d03353f0a82 ID_FS_LABEL= ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=

Are the two lines anagrams?

This works by reading in two lines of input, turning each into a list of one-character matches that are sorted and compared.

Speaking alarm clock

This ran on a ubuntu box using espeak for speaking text with the bash shell. On a mac you should use 'say'. Also you can change your alarm interval and your snooze interval which are currently 8 hours and 1 minute. I would run this via cron yet it's easier to disable if you run it as a command like this :P

Mount directories in different locations

Like symlinked directories, you can mount a directory at a different location. For example mounting a directory from one location in to the http root without having to make your program follow symlinks or change permissions when reading.

move a lot of files over ssh

Useful to move many files (thousands or millions files) over ssh. Faster than scp because this way you save a lot of tcp connection establishments (syn/ack packets). If using a fast lan (I have just tested gigabyte ethernet) it is faster to not compress the data so the command would be: tar -cf - /home/user/test | ssh user@sshServer 'cd /tmp; tar xf -'

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