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cat file1 file2 file3|sort|uniq -d
finds the same lines in several files, especially in files with lists of files.
Simply change your web browser's proxy settings to point to a SOCKS proxy at port 8888 and you're good to go.
Kill -9 immediately kills the given process number. $$ is the process ID of the process you are in.
finds all forms instanciated into a symfony project, pruning svn files.
Get simple description on each file from /bin dir, in list form, usefull for newbies.
# Small for loop, that can list files in dir, and after that executes
# [COMMAND] of your choice, usefull for example rename, move, tar etc..
# change cmd's for different results :)
From the other machine open a web navigator and go to ip from the machine who launch netcat, http://ip-address/
If you have some web server listening at 80 port then you would need stop them or select another port before launch net cat ;-)
* You need netcat tool installed
when your terminal session seems unrensponsive (this normally happen after outputting some binary data directly on your standard output) it may me saned by hitting:
CTRL+J tput sgr0 CTRL+J
Note: don't press the Enter key, just ctrl+j
You must get your Backup Url from: http://ROUTER_DYN_DNS/admin-bwm.asp under "Backup".
I set it up in a curl
or, to process a single directory:
for f in *; do mv $f `echo $f |tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`; done
or, for a single directory:
for f in *.c; do mv $f "`basename $f .c`".C; done
When expanding, bash output the command, so don't be affraid if you type the command.
Here is the details:
First examples:
echo foo bar foobar barfoo
First argument:
echo !$
echo barfoo
barfoo
(Note that typing echo foo bar foobar barfoo && echo !$, bash substitute !$ with $:1)
Last argument:
echo foo bar foobar barfoo && echo !^
echo foo bar foobar barfoo && echo barfoo
foo bar foobar barfoo
barfoo
All the arguments:
echo !*
echo foo bar foobar barfoo
foo bar foobar barfoo
The third argument:
echo foo bar foobar barfoo && echo !:3
echo foo bar foobar barfoo && echo foobar
foo bar foobar barfoo
foobar
You may want to add {} for large numbers: echo !:{11} for example
Now with path:
echo /usr/bin/foobar
/usr/bin/foobar
For the head:
echo !$:h
echo /usr/bin
/usr/bin
And the tail:
echo !$:t
echo foobar
foobar
You also may want to try !:h and !:t or !!3-4 for the third and the fourth (so !!:* == !!:1-$)
tar options may change ;)
c to compress into a tar file, z for gzip (j for bzip) man tar
-print0 and -0t are usefull for names with spaces, \, etc.
seq allows you to format the output thanks to the -f option. This is very useful if you want to rename your files to the same format in order to be able to easily sort for example:
for i in `seq 1 3 10`; do touch foo$i ;done
And
ls foo* | sort -n
foo1
foo10
foo4
foo7
But:
for i in `seq -f %02g 1 3 10`; do touch foo$i ;done
So
ls foo* | sort -n
foo01
foo04
foo07
foo10
this will find text in the directory you specify and give you line where it appears.