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echo "Hello world" | base64

2009-04-27 15:00:08

User: P17

Functions: echo

Tags: encoding

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Encoding with base64

Also works with files:

cat file

Hello world

base64 file

SGVsbG8gd29ybGQK

To decrypt use the -d option:

echo SGVsbG8gd29ybGQK | base64 -d

Hello world

cobbler check

2009-04-27 10:28:29

User: w00binda

Tags: cobbler provisioning

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Check cobbler environment

A script that checks if your environment is correctly configured for using cobbler.

cobbler repo add --name=CentOS-5.3-i386-updates --mirror=http://mirror3.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CentOS/5.3/updates/i386/

2009-04-27 10:18:45

User: w00binda

Tags: cobbler

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Create new repo in Cobbler for CentOS 5.3 updates

Add a repo to cobbler. To download all the repository contents the command is:

cobbler reposync

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lam -f 1.4 myfile

2009-04-26 19:31:22

User: servermanaged

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Laminate files line by line

Lam is a command available on Bsd (I've tested it on OpenBSD).Is useful for laminate a file line by line. The -f option set the field width ( -f min.max ).

curl -f -O http://pcbsd.fastbull.org/7.0.2/i386/PCBSD7.0.2-x86-DVD.iso

2009-04-26 07:23:31

User: battavia

Tags: curl

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download a specific file

download a specific file with -f to not display errors and -O to write output to a file named as the remote file.

for i in `screen -ls | perl -ne'if(/^\s+\d+\.([^\s]+)/){print $1, " "}'`; do gnome-terminal -e "screen -x $i"; done

2009-04-25 22:39:24

User: hank

Functions: perl

Tags: screen Linux perl

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Connect to all running screen instances

There was another line that was dependent on having un-named screen sessions. This just wouldn't do. This one works no matter what the name is. A possible improvement would be removing the perl dependence, but that doesn't effect me.

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for img in $( ls *.CR2 ); do convert $img $img.jpg; done

2009-04-25 19:11:52

User: bass000

Functions: ls

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Convert Raw pictures to jpg

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for i in /sys/class/net/*; do e=`basename $i`; echo "# $e"; sudo ethtool $e | grep -E "Link|Speed" ; done

2009-04-25 14:32:08

User: hank

Functions: echo grep sudo

Tags: Network Linux

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Get a summary of network devices in the system

Basically an improvement on an earlier ethtool command line.

lsof -i

2009-04-25 14:24:04

User: hank

Tags: Network Ubuntu Linux

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Watch Network Service Activity in Real-time

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mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)

2009-04-25 14:16:45

User: thebodzio

Functions: date mkdir

Tags: alias date mkdir

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Create directory named after current date

Not a discovery but a useful one nontheless.

In the above example date format is 'yyyymmdd'. For other possible formats see 'man date'.

This command can be also very convenient when aliased to some meaningful name:

alias mkdd='mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)'

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lndir sourcedir destdir

2009-04-24 18:30:29

User: servermanaged

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Propagate a directory to another and create symlink to content

Lndir create from source directory to destination directory a full symlink tree of all contents of source directory, really useful for propagate changes from a directory to another.

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look mysql /etc/group

2009-04-24 18:20:20

User: servermanaged

Functions: look

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Display lines with a given string

Look search for lines in a file that beginning with a given string.

Same as $ grep ^n /etc/passwd

echo "A great password" | md5sum

2009-04-24 14:32:56

User: ubersoldat

Functions: echo

Tags: md5sum password

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Use md5 to generate a pretty hard to crack password

You can also use sha1sum and variants for longer passwords

/usr/local/bin/OFPW -mode 1

2009-04-24 13:09:17

User: tncook

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set open firmware password command mode to require password to make changes

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/usr/local/bin/OFPW -pass thepassword

2009-04-24 13:08:31

User: tncook

-1

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Sets OpenFirmware pasword on a mac

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hwinfo --block --short

2009-04-24 11:13:31

User: Schneckentreiber

Tags: mount partition harddisk hardware storage

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Show all detected mountable Drives/Partitions/BlockDevices

Yields entries in the form of "/dev/hda1" etc.

Use this if you are on a new system and don't know how the storage hardware (ide, sata, scsi, usb - with ever changing descriptors) is connected and which partitions are available.

Far better than using "fdisk -l" on guessed device descriptors.

for i in `ls *xml`; do sed -e 's,oldpassword,newpassword,g' $i > $i.2 && mv -f $i.2 $i ; done

2009-04-24 08:53:40

User: irraz

Functions: mv sed

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Change password in list of xml files with for and sed

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sed 's/\o0/\n/g' /proc/INSERT_PID_HERE/environ

2009-04-23 22:58:57

User: unixmonkey3402

Functions: sed

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Given process ID print its environment variables

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mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=groupId -DartifactId=artifactId -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=pathtolib -DrepositoryId=repository -Durl=url

2009-04-23 18:13:08

User: agasea

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Install a library to a remote repository

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meld <(antiword microsoft_word_a.doc) <(antiword microsoft_word_b.doc)

2009-04-23 15:14:32

User: peter_shook

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compare two Microsoft Word documents

http://meld.sourceforge.net/

http://www.winfield.demon.nl/

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find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

2009-04-22 21:14:36

User: ethanmiller

Functions: chmod find

Tags: chmod

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Recursively change permissions on files, leave directories alone.

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m-a a-i open-vm

2009-04-22 20:08:00

User: m03hr3

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compile openvm-tools

compile and install openvm-tools module in debian lenny

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smbclient -U userbob //10.1.1.75/Shared

2009-04-22 19:58:51

User: ethanmiller

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Browse shared folder when you're the only Linux user

Under Ubuntu smbclient is part of the samba package. With the version I use (3.0.28a) cd-ing into folders with spaces in the name is a drag. You have to put the folder name in quotes:

smb: \Shared\> cd "Marketing and PR"

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for M in 0 1 2 3 ; do echo eth$M ;/sbin/ethtool eth$M | grep -E "Link|Speed" ; done

2009-04-22 19:32:41

User: Wubby

Functions: echo grep

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eth-tool summary of eth# devices

Give the Speed and Link status of eth# 0-3. This is sort of what mii-tool does, but eth-tool is better, yet lacks device discovery.

yes '' | cat -n

2009-04-22 17:58:46

User: flux

Functions: cat yes

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a short counter

Maybe you know shorter ?

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