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Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)

using mb it's still readable;) a symbol variation $ du -ms {,.[^.]}* | sort -nk1 Show Sample Output
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```
186     Foto
213     .mozilla
260     .eclipse
295     .kde
301     Desktop
```
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du -ms * .[^.]*| sort -nk1

ioggstream · 2009-07-01 13:38:13 8

kpartx can be found inside of the multipath-tools package -a adds the mappings and -d deletes them Show Sample Output

kpartx -a /dev/mapper/space-foobar

flart · 2009-07-01 09:53:33 8

List programs with open ports and connections

I prefer to use this and not the -n variety, so I get DNS-resolved hostnames. Nice when I'm trying to figure out who's got that port open.
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lsof -i

unixmonkey4503 · 2009-06-30 22:36:00 8
Using netcat to copy files between servers

It bypasses encryption overhead of SSH and depending on configuration can be significantly faster. It's recommended to use only in trusted networks.
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9

On target: "nc -l 4000 | tar xvf -" On source: "tar -cf - . | nc target_ip 4000"

tiagofischer · 2009-06-30 19:36:19 8
Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest first)

Taken from http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/
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-3

function duf { du -k $@ | sort -rn | perl -ne '($s,$f)=split(/\t/,$_,2);for(qw(K M G T)){if($s<1024){$x=($s<10?"%.1f":"%3d");printf("$x$_\t%s",$s,$f);last};$s/=1024}' }

illicium · 2009-06-30 19:20:30 15
Dump a configuration file without comments or whitespace...

A short, *easy-er* to remember command for stripping whitespace and comments from a config file, (or any file for that matter). Remember regex as: slash, space, star. pound, slash, bar. pointy-hat, dollar. (or "caret, dollar" if you must) :-P
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grep -v "\ *#\|^$" /etc/path/to.config

geekboxjockey · 2009-06-30 18:14:46 17
c_rehash replacement

When you don't have c_rehash handy. Really simple - if you have a .pem file that doesn't really contain a x509 cert (let's say, newreq.pem), it will create a link, simply called '.0', pointing to that file.
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for file in *.pem; do ln -s $file `openssl x509 -hash -noout -in $file`.0; done

darkpand · 2009-06-30 17:42:07 98
Matrix Style
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67

tr -c "[:digit:]" " " < /dev/urandom | dd cbs=$COLUMNS conv=unblock | GREP_COLOR="1;32" grep --color "[^ ]"

allinurl · 2009-06-30 17:23:49 25
Recursive when needed

avoid rm to be recursive until you complete the command: put the -rf at the end!
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-3

rm strangedirs -rf

ioggstream · 2009-06-30 15:10:31 15
Check if filesystem hangs

When a fs hangs and you've just one console, even # ls could be a dangerous command. Simply put a trailing "&" and play safe
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ls /mnt/badfs &

ioggstream · 2009-06-30 14:40:22 9
Smiley Face Bash Prompt

If your last command was a dud, your bash prompt will be angry at you. Otherwise it's happy. Soon you will crave its constant approval and your linux skills will improve simply to avoid low self-esteem. Show Sample Output
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```
^_^ # true
^_^ # false
-_- #
```
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PS1="\`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo \e[33\;40m\\\^\\\_\\\^\e[0m; else echo \e[36\;40m\\\-\e[0m\\\_\e[36\;40m\\\-\e[0m; fi\` \u \w:\h)"

digitalsushi · 2009-06-30 14:29:55 376
quickly backup or copy a file with bash

less symbols, tab completion. including # export SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX="_`date +%F`" in your .bashrc provides you to easily timestamp your files
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6

cp -bfS.bak filename filename

ioggstream · 2009-06-30 14:17:28 33
stop windows update

Windows only: stops windows update and the nagging restart window. You need your admin password for this one.
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4

runas /user:administrator net stop wuauserv

oernii2 · 2009-06-30 09:29:03 18
reload bash_profile

when editing .bash_profile (or .bashrc), run this to use the new version without having to exit and open a new terminal
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source ~/.bash_profile

unixmonkey743 · 2009-06-29 19:26:43 16
Trim linebreaks
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cat myfile.txt | tr -d '\n'

Cowboy · 2009-06-29 12:49:08 6
SVN Status log to CSV

Note you have also the --xml option ;) Show Sample Output
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```
1 | author | 2009-09-09 12:12:12 +200 | Initial import
2 | author | 2009-09-09 12:15:16 +200 | ADDED: great feature
```
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svn log | tr -d '\n' | sed -r 's/-{2,}/\n/g' | sed -r 's/ $[^$]+\)//g' | sed -r 's/^r//' | sed -r "s/[0-9]+ lines?//g" | sort -g

Cowboy · 2009-06-29 12:48:30 6
Define a quick calculator function

defines a handy function for quick calculations from cli. once defined: ? 10*2+3 Show Sample Output
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```
23?
```
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? () { echo "$*" | bc -l; }

fizz · 2009-06-28 20:15:30 27
Uniformly correct filenames in a directory

Useful if non-ascii characters in filenames have been improperly encoded. Replace "PROBLEM" with the incorrect characters (e.g. 'é'), and "FIX" with the correct ones (e.g. '?').
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for i in *;do mv "$i" "$(echo $i | sed s/PROBLEM/FIX/g)";done

AlecSchueler · 2009-06-28 01:50:25 18
replace spaces in filenames with underscores

This command will replace all the spaces in all the filenames of the current directory with underscores. There are other commands that do this here, but this one is the easiest and shortest.
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rename 'y/ /_/' *

signal9 · 2009-06-27 22:20:47 83

Twitter update from terminal (pok3's snipts ?)

Found it on snipt, pok3, is it yours? I put my user = m33600, the password and the status was my robot message: Settima robot message: ALARM ZONE 3 (sent via command line). Now bots may have their identity on twitter... Show Sample Output

curl -u YourUsername:YourPassword -d status="Your status message go here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

m33600 · 2009-06-27 21:47:48 12

Extract the emoticons regex from a running skype process

Skype has an internal regex which depicts the emoticons it supports. However you cannot simply search the binary file for it. This small 181 character line will do just that, provided skype is running. And of course, only works in linux. Show Sample Output
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```
(...) |$banghead$|$bear$|$beer$|$blush$|$bow$|$bricklayers$|$brokenheart$|$bug$|$bye$|$cake$|$call$|$cash$|$chuckle$| (...)
```
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S=`pidof skype`;grep heap /proc/$S/maps|cut -f1 -d' '|awk -F- '{print "0x" $1 " 0x" $2}'|xargs echo "du me t ">l;gdb -batch -p $S -x l>/dev/null 2>&1;strings t|grep \(smirk|head -n1

alvieboy · 2009-06-26 20:03:17 6
Print line immediately before a matching regex.

Use this if you don't have access to GNU grep's -B option.
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awk '/regex/{print x};{x=$0}'

res0nat0r · 2009-06-26 19:29:54 10
VIM: Replace a string with an incrementing number between marks 'a and 'b (eg, convert string ZZZZ to 1, 2, 3, ...)
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:let i=0 | 'a,'bg/ZZZZ/s/ZZZZ/\=i/ | let i=i+1

res0nat0r · 2009-06-26 19:23:29 6
Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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( cd SOURCEDIR && tar cf - . ) | (cd DESTDIR && tar xvpf - )

res0nat0r · 2009-06-26 19:13:51 14

Untar file with absolute pathname to relative location

Don't have GNU tar installed that supports the redirect option (-C)? Use this. Show Sample Output

pax -r -s ',^/,,' -f file.tar

res0nat0r · 2009-06-26 19:10:57 7

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encode image to base64 and copy to clipboard

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Sets shell timeout

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sort is way slow by default. This tells sort to use a buffer equal to half of the available free memory. It also will use multiple process for the sort equal to the number of cpus on your machine (if greater than 1). For me, it is magnitudes faster. If you put this in your bash_profile or startup file, it will be set correctly when bash is started. $ sort -S1 --parallel=2 /dev/null && alias sortfast='sort -S$(($(sed '\''/MemF/!d;s/[^0-9]*//g'\'' /proc/meminfo)/2048)) $([ `nproc` -gt 1 ]&&echo -n --parallel=`nproc`)' Alternative $ echo|sort -S10M --parallel=2 &>/dev/null && alias sortfast="command sort -S$(($(sed '/MemT/!d;s/[^0-9]*//g' /proc/meminfo)/1024-200)) --parallel=$(($(command grep -c ^proc /proc/cpuinfo)*2))"

clear the X clipboard

Clears your clipboard if xsel is installed on your machine. If your xsel is dumb, you can also use $xsel --clear --clipboard

Smart renaming

Use 'mmv' for mass renames. The globbing syntax is intuitive.

Benchmark report generator

Nicely display in html format a detailed report of the machine, including cpu benchmarks.

encrypt and post or get and decrypt from sprunge using gpg symmetric encryption option

create simple encrypted notes to yourself using a passphrase on sprunge.us

resize all JPG images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)

Convert all jpegs in the current directory into ~1024*768 pixels and ~ 150 KBytes jpegs

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