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find . -type f -exec grep -l pattern {} \; | xargs vi +/pattern
2009-02-16 08:39:39
User: unixmonkey982
Functions: find grep vi xargs
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find all files containing a pattern, open them using vi and place cursor to the first match, use 'n' and ':n' to navigate
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xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}' | xargs ps h -o pid,cmd
2009-02-16 07:55:19
User: jackhab
Functions: awk ps xargs
Tags: Process Management windows process GUI
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Click on a GUI window and show its process ID and command used to run the process

This command is useful when you want to know what process is responsible for a certain GUI application and what command you need to issue to launch it in terminal.

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command | pbcopy && pbpaste
2009-02-16 07:40:36
User: vaporub
Functions: command
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Mac OS-X-> copy and paste things to and from the clipboard from the shell

Copies whatever is piped to the pbcopy command to the clipboard.

pbpaste ... well pastes whats on the clipboard.

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sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
2009-02-16 07:30:54
User: StephSD3
Functions: sudo
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restart network manager

when I turn on my wifi, I always have to put in this command in order to make my laptop notice the wifi.

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mysqladmin -u username -p create dbname
2009-02-16 07:21:07
User: vaporub
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Create a mysql database from the command line

Creates a database that could then be populated with a dump file or application.

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qlmanage -p "yourfilename"
2009-02-16 07:15:03
User: vaporub
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OS-X... create a quick look from the command line

Where "docname" is the document you want OS-X to image... file.txt, file.pdf, file.mov, etc

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curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org | sed 's/[a-zA-Z<>/ :]//g'
2009-02-16 07:12:01
User: vaporub
Functions: sed
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Another Curl your IP command

Just another curl command to get your public facing IP

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MAC=`(date; cat /proc/interrupts) | md5sum | sed -r 's/^(.{10}).*$/\1/; s/([0-9a-f]{2})/\1:/g; s/:$//;'`
2009-02-16 07:09:43
User: vaporub
Functions: cat md5sum sed
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Generat a Random MAC address

Original author unknown (I believe off of a wifi hacking forum).

Used in conjuction with ifconfig and cron.. can be handy (especially spoofing AP's)

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uuencode $file $file | /usr/bin/mailx -s "$file" ${USER}
2009-02-16 06:38:00
User: amiga500
Functions: uuencode
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Email a file to yourself

This works on Solaris 10.

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find ${PATH//:/ } -executable -type f -printf "%f\n"
2009-02-16 06:03:46
User: kamathln
Functions: find
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List all execs in $PATH, usefull for grepping the resulting list

##Dependancies: bash coreutils

Many executables in $PATH have the keyword somewhere other than the beginning in their file names. The command is useful for exploring the executables in $PATH like this.

find ${PATH//:/ } -executable -type f -printf "%f\n" |grep admin

lpadmin

time-admin

network-admin

svnadmin

users-admin

django-admin

shares-admin

services-admin

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pstree -Gap
2009-02-16 05:50:50
User: fulat2k
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Displays process tree of all running processes

G - uses VT100 line drawing

a - shows command line arguments of process

p - prints PID of process

For other options, man pstree :)

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find . \( -type d -name .svn -prune \) -o -type d -print
2009-02-16 04:55:02
User: samc
Functions: find
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Lists all directories under the current dir excluding the .svn directory and its contents
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get autoremove
2009-02-16 04:21:07
User: Skyrell
Functions: sudo
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Does a full update and cleaning in one line
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bzr init .;for file in `ls *.bz2`; do bzr import $file; bzr ci -m $file; done
2009-02-16 04:19:03
User: statik
Functions: file init
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converts a directory full of source tarballs into a bzr repository so you can compare different versions easily
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rgx_match() { python -c "import re; print re.search('$1','$2').groups()"; }
2009-02-16 04:07:54
User: jyro
Functions: python
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Test python regular expressions

One can test their python regex matching using this shell function.

for e.g.

rgx_match "translate\s*\(([0-9-.]+),([0-9-.]+)\)" "translate(162.11517,76.817357)"

('162.11517', '76.817357')

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sudo dmidecode | more
2009-02-16 03:32:30
User: oreo
Functions: sudo
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print indepth hardware info

wanna know something about your hardware? how about EVERYTHING?? then this should do ya well

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sudo alsa force-reload
2009-02-16 03:30:13
User: oreo
Functions: sudo
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reloads sound when it stop playing

if you lose your sound, this will restart alsa and you will get your sound back

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for (( i = 0; i < 100; i++ )); do echo "$i"; done
2009-02-16 03:19:26
User: themattrix
Functions: echo
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Perform a C-style loop in Bash.

Print 0 through 99, each on a separate line.

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find . -type f -exec grep -l XXX {} \;|tee /tmp/fileschanged|xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/XXX/YYY/g'
2009-02-16 02:55:23
User: drossman
Functions: find grep perl tee xargs
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Change string in many files at once and more.

Find all files that contain string XXX in them, change the string from XXX to YYY, make a backup copy of the file and save a list of files changed in /tmp/fileschanged.

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umount -l /media/foo
2009-02-16 02:51:49
User: nomad
Functions: umount
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Unmount locked filesystems.

Will unmount a mount that has already dropped but is locked by a process.

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srchpymod() { python -c "import $1; print filter(lambda x: x.find('$2') >= 0, dir($1))"; };
2009-02-16 02:47:13
User: jyro
Functions: python
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search into contents of python module

srchpymod

for e.g.

srchpymod cairo Surface

['ImageSurface', 'PDFSurface', 'PSSurface', 'SVGSurface', 'Surface', 'SurfacePattern', 'XlibSurface']

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cd -
2009-02-16 02:37:50
User: chmouel
Functions: cd
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BourneShell: Go to previous directory

cd - would return to the previous directory of your cd command. NB: previous dir is always stored in $OLDPWD variable.

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killall nautilus
2009-02-16 02:33:12
User: binarysys
Functions: killall
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Restart nautilus
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sudo dpkg --purge `dpkg -l | awk '/^r/{print $2}'`
2009-02-16 02:18:02
User: elleryq
Functions: awk sudo
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purge all packages marked with 'rc'

After you install/remove lots of packages, there are many packages marked with 'rc'. This script help you to purge these packages, it will save some spaces from your disk.

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echo 'example' | sed -e 's/^\(.\)/\U\1/'
2009-02-16 02:14:27
User: agentk
Functions: echo sed
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Convert the first character of a string to uppercase
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