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Print all fields in a file/output from field N to the end of the line
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cut -f N- file.dat

sklm · 2009-08-31 23:08:18 4
Find files that were modified by a given command

Traces the system calls of a program. See http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/05/strace-very-powerful-troubleshooting.html for more information.
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3

strace <name of the program>

eitland · 2009-08-31 20:42:50 10
Print all fields in a file/output from field N to the end of the line

This command will print all fields from the given input to the end of each line, starting with the Nth field.
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0

awk '{print substr($0, index($0,$N))}'

mstoecker · 2009-08-31 19:47:10 6
Find files that were modified by a given command

This has helped me numerous times trying to find either log files or tmp files that get created after execution of a command. And really eye opening as to how active a given process really is. Play around with -anewer, -cnewer & -newerXY Show Sample Output
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```
[root@localhost ~]# touch /tmp/service
[root@localhost ~]# service cups restart
Stopping cups:                                             [  OK  ]
Starting cups:                                             [  OK  ]
[root@localhost ~]# find /var -newer /tmp/service
/var/cache/cups/job.cache
/var/lock/subsys
/var/lock/subsys/cups
/var/log/audit/audit.log
/var/run
/var/run/cupsd.pid
/var/run/cups
/var/run/cups/cups.sock
/var/run/cups/certs
/var/run/cups/certs/0
[root@localhost ~]#
```
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touch /tmp/file ; $EXECUTECOMMAND ; find /path -newer /tmp/file

matthewdavis · 2009-08-31 18:47:19 11

xargs can be used in this manner to download multiple files at a time, and xargs will in this case run 10 processes at a time and initiate a new one when the number running falls below 10. Show Sample Output

wget -nv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux -O- | egrep -o "http://[^[:space:]]*.jpg" | xargs -P 10 -r -n 1 wget -nv

grokskookum · 2009-08-31 18:37:33 56

How to run a command on a list of remote servers read from a file

dsh - Distributed shell, or dancer?s shell ;-) you can put your servers into /etc/dsh/machines.list than you don't have to serperate them by commata or group them in different files and only run commands for this groups dsh -M -c -a -- "apt-get update" Show Sample Output
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```
micha@lucie:~$ dsh -M -c -f test -- "hostname -f"
root@abc.de: abc.de
root@xyz.de: xyz
```
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dsh -M -c -f servers -- "command HERE"

foob4r · 2009-08-31 12:08:38 3
See the order for DNS resolution on your Mac
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scutil --dns

romant · 2009-08-31 10:34:08 3
Who needs pipes?

or: C
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B <<< $(A)

asg0451 · 2009-08-30 20:20:18 11
Intall not signed packeges with yum

Same as: 1 rpm -ivh package.rpm 2 yum localinstall package.rpm 3 Edit /etc/yum.conf or repository.repo and change the value of gpgcheck from 1 to 0 (!dangerous)
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yum --nogpgcheck install "examplePackage"

iDen · 2009-08-30 18:18:30 3
Top 10 requestors by IP address from Apache/NCSA Logs
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awk '{print $1}' /var/log/httpd/access_log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rnk1 | head -n 10

flip387 · 2009-08-30 15:32:26 3
Get list of all Apache Virtual Host and which is default for each IP address

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```
VirtualHost configuration:
1.2.3.4:80     is a NameVirtualHost
         default server domain.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/domain_virhost.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost domain.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/domain_virhost.conf:1)
Syntax OK
```
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httpd -S

flip387 · 2009-08-30 15:28:39 4
Run a cron job every 15 mins past the hour

Instead of using: 0,15,30,45 * * * * /path/to/command
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*/15 * * * * /path/to/command

sharfah · 2009-08-30 14:53:08 3
show all key and mouse events

for mousevents, move the mouse over the window and click/move etc. usefull for getting mouseKeys, or keyKeys. also usefull for checking if X gets those mouse-events.
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xev

linuxswords · 2009-08-30 14:41:16 10
get all pdf and zips from a website using wget

If the site uses https, use: wget --reject html,htm --accept pdf,zip -rl1 --no-check-certificate https-url
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wget --reject html,htm --accept pdf,zip -rl1 url

linuxswords · 2009-08-30 14:05:09 6
Search gpg keys from commandline
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gpg --search-keys

linuxswords · 2009-08-30 13:52:29 3
convert mp3 into mb4 (audiobook format)

to convert a whole directory, put all mp3 files in a for loop for i in $(ls *mp3); do mpg123 -s $i | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o ${i%mp3}m4b -; done
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mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o output.m4b -

linuxswords · 2009-08-30 13:15:37 3
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. rkhunter is a shell script which carries out various checks on the local system to try and detect known rootkits and malware. It also performs c

rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. rkhunter is a shell script which carries out various checks on the local system to try and detect known rootkits and malware. It also performs checks to see if commands have been modified, if the system startup files have been modified, and various checks on the network interfaces, including checks for listening applications.
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rkhunter --check

unixbhaskar · 2009-08-30 12:53:33 7
Check the backdoors and security.chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit.

chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit,Get it from the website http://www.chkrootkit.org
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chkrootkit -x | less

unixbhaskar · 2009-08-30 12:47:08 3
Creating shortened URLs from the command line

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```
$ curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=http://www.commandlinefu.com/ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p'
http://tinyurl.com/d52z2c
```
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curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=http://<website.url>/ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' | uniq

amaymon · 2009-08-30 07:55:48 8
A snooze button for xmms2 alarm clock

you can also run "xmms2 pause & at now +5min
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xmms2 pause && echo "xmms2 play" | at now +5min

Vrekk · 2009-08-30 04:35:10 3
Show Mac OS X version information
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2

sw_vers

theoj · 2009-08-29 21:27:18 3
check the fucking weather

grab the weather, with a little expletive fun. replace the 48104 with a US zipcode, or the name of your city (such as ZIP="oslo"), unless you want to know what the weather is like for me (and that's fine too) Show Sample Output
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```
70 - ITS FUCKING NICE
```
1

ZIP=48104; curl http://thefuckingweather.com/?zipcode=$ZIP 2>/dev/null|grep -A1 'div class="large"'|tr '\n' ' '|sed 's/^.*"large" >$..$/\1/;s/&d.* <br \/>/ - /;s/<br \/>//;s/<\/div.*$//'

sleepynate · 2009-08-29 19:33:35 102

To find how Apache has been compiled from commandline

To get information at your fingertips about Apache compilation. Show Sample Output

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httpd2 -V

unixbhaskar · 2009-08-29 13:04:37 3

Another way to see the network interfaces

Like many other thing in Linux ,you can see the same thing in different way. Show Sample Output

ip addr show

unixbhaskar · 2009-08-29 12:52:02 3

Get the information about the Apache loaded modules from command line

This is a handy way to find which modules are loaded with Apache web server. Show Sample Output

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httpd2 -M

unixbhaskar · 2009-08-29 12:46:10 3

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Test file system performance

You need bonnie++ package for this. More detail than a simple hdparm -t /dev/sda would give you. the -d is the directory where it performs writes/reads for example I use /tmp/scratch with 777 permissions Bonnie++ benchmarks three things: data read and write speed, number of seeks that can be performed per second, and number of file metadata operations that can be performed per second.

for newbies, how to get one line info about all /bin programs

Get simple description on each file from /bin dir, in list form, usefull for newbies.

Capture video of a linux desktop

List detailed information about a ZIP archive

list zipfile info in long Unix ``ls -l'' format.

translates acronyms for you

very handy if you are in irc and absolutely don't know what these guys are talking about. this is a netbsd command, if you are lucky it exists in your distro's package database.

Quickly add user accounts to the system and force a password change on first login

This command is a bit Linux specific, as --stdin doesn't exist for passwd on many Unix machines. Further, useradd is high level in most distributions and Unix derivatives except for the Debian family of distros, where adduser would be more appropriate. The last bit, with chage, will force the user to change their password on new login.

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manualy installed.

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manually installed. So they are not automatically removed if you remove some meta package - like gnome-desktop-environment for example.

Monitor Linux/MD RAID Rebuild

Search Google from the command line

Adjust Google domain and window width

Using ASCII Art output on MPlayer

Not so useful. Just a cool feature.

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