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find largest file in /var

find largest file in /var
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find /var -mount -ls -xdev | /usr/bin/sort -nr +6 | more

mnikhil · 2009-05-16 10:53:55 6
Creating a ZFS Storage Pool by Using Files

This command creates an unmirrored pool using files. While not recommended, a pool based on files can be useful for experimental purposes.
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zpool create tank /path/to/file/a /path/to/file/b

mnikhil · 2009-05-16 10:46:17 6
Creating a Mirrored Storage Pool using Zpool

command creates a pool with two mirrors, where each mirror contains two disks.
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zpool create tank mirror c0t0d0 c0t1d0 mirror c0t2d0 c0t3d0

mnikhil · 2009-05-16 10:44:56 15
Creating a RAID-Z Storage Pool

The following command creates a pool with a single raidz root vdev that consists of six disks.
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zpool create tank raidz c0t0d0 c0t1d0 c0t2d0 c0t3d0 c0t4d0 c0t5d0

mnikhil · 2009-05-16 10:44:05 4
Rip a DVD to AVI format

Substitute whatever track number you want into the "dvd://1" parameter. The "-aid 128" is to select the English language.
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mencoder dvd://1 -aid 128 -o track-1.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

dstahlke · 2009-05-16 00:08:57 4
How to Find the Block Size

Useful to know, especially if you are dealing with output configurations in block size. Tested on 'Red Hat'.
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/sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/hda2 | grep 'Block size'

rez0r · 2009-05-15 22:23:21 4
Updating the status on identi.ca using curl.

identica is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. Based on Laconica, a micro-blogging software package built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification. http://identi.ca/
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curl -u USER:PASS -d status="NEW STATUS" http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml

unixmonkey3754 · 2009-05-15 19:57:00 83
List all PostgreSQL databases. Useful when doing backups
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psql -U postgres -lAt | gawk -F\| '$1 !~ /^template/ && $1 !~ /^postgres/ && NF > 1 {print $1}'

lv4tech · 2009-05-15 14:33:50 6
Copy data using gtar

It copies the entire current working directory to the destination directory with compression enabled.
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gtar cpf - . | (cd /dest/directory; gtar xpf -)

mnikhil · 2009-05-15 13:23:00 8
Make a directory named with the current date

Create a directory named with the current date in ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-dd). Useful for storing backups by date. The --iso switch may only work with GNU date, can use format string argument for other date versions.
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mkdir `date --iso`

hal · 2009-05-15 12:30:10 8
Quickly assess quality of project by greping the SVN commit logs

A good way to understand what you've let yourself in for. Potential project metric could be the count: svn log | grep -c "bodge\|fudge\|hack\|dirty"
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svn log | grep "bodge\|fudge\|hack\|dirty"

root · 2009-05-15 09:55:44 5
Dumping Audio stream from flv (using ffmpeg)
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ffmpeg -i <filename>.flv -vn <filename>.mp3

mohan43u · 2009-05-15 05:03:30 8
Dumping Audio stream from flv (using mplayer)
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$ mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile <filename>.mp3 <filename>.flv

mohan43u · 2009-05-15 04:44:20 4
Search for commands from the command line

Search at CommandLineFu.com from your terminal. Get the clfu-seach at http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch Show Sample Output
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```
Searching...

sed -n '10,20p' <filename>
Print all the lines between 10 and 20 of a file

sed '1000000!d;q' < massive-log-file.log
Efficiently print a line deep in a huge log file

sed 's/\o0/\n/g' /proc/INSERT_PID_HERE/environ
Given process ID print its environment variables
```
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clfu-seach <search words>

aurium · 2009-05-14 19:54:45 91
automatically add and remove files in subversion

automatically add and remove files in subversion so that you don't have to do it through the annoying svn commands anymore
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svn st | grep '^\?' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add; svn st | grep '^\!' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn rm

stedwick · 2009-05-14 14:34:50 7
Remove all .svn folders inside a folder
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find . -name "\.svn" -exec rm -rf {} ";"

caiosba · 2009-05-14 12:02:25 9
Get your public ip using dyndns
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curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | grep -o "[[:digit:].]\+"

lv4tech · 2009-05-14 09:43:31 13
Mac Sleep Timer

Schedule your Mac to sleep at any future time. Also wake, poweron, shutdown, wakeorpoweron. Or repeating with sudo pmset repeat wakeorpoweron MTWRFSU 7:00:00 Query with pmset -g sched Lots more at http://www.macenterprise.org/articles/powermanagementandschedulingviathecommandline
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sudo pmset schedule sleep "08/31/2009 00:00:00"

hobzcalvin · 2009-05-14 09:31:32 17
alt + 1 .

alt + number + dot will insert last command argument at $number place, alt + 0 + . will print last command name. For example ls /tmp /var ls /usr /home alt + 1 + . will result in '/usr' , if you press alt + . again, it will result in '/tmp' alt + 0 + . -> 'ls'
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alt + 1 .

elementa13 · 2009-05-14 09:14:01 8
alias for etckeeper, to commit changes after moification of etc

ec commits changes to etckeeper must have etckeeper installed with bzr to use this place inside bashrc can be used from any directory to commit changes
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function ec() { ec_var="`pwd`" && cd /etc/ && sudo bzr commit -m "$@" && cd $ec_var; }

professoralex · 2009-05-14 04:34:26 5
alias for lsof -i -T -n

list what applications using what ports Show Sample Output
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```
[sudo] password for digi: 
COMMAND     PID        USER   FD   TYPE  DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
... (output varies)
```
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alias lso="sudo lsof -i -T -n"

professoralex · 2009-05-14 04:01:05 4
aliases for apt-get

these are some aliases you can use in bashrc to shorten the amount of typing needed to use apt-get, also can be used as reference if you can't remember alot of commands or command parameter variations,etc... Please comment with more apt-get aliases if I missed any, thx Show Sample Output
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```
#all apt-get aliases (add to .bashrc or type in cmdline):
$ alias agi='sudo apt-get install' #packages
$ alias agu='sudo apt-get update'
$ alias ags='sudo apt-cache search' #string-in-package-name-or-descr
$ alias agsh='sudo apt-cache show' #string
$ alias agr='sudo apt-get remove' #packages
$ alias agd='sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'
$ alias agc='sudo apt-get clean'
$ alias agac='sudo apt-get autoclean'
```
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alias agi="sudo apt-get install" #package_names

professoralex · 2009-05-14 03:31:47 8
Duplicating service runlevel configurations from one server to another.

And then to complete the task: Go to target host; ssh host Turn everything off: for i in `chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | awk '{print $1}'` ; do chkconfig --level 12345 $i off; done Create duplicate config: while read line; do chkconfig --level $line on; done < foo
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chkconfig --list | fgrep :on | sed -e 's/$^.*$*0:off/\1:/g' -e 's/$.$:on/\1/g' -e 's/.:off//g' | tr -d [:blank:] | awk -F: '{print$2,$1}' | ssh host 'cat > foo'

catawampus · 2009-05-13 21:17:39 11
alias source .bashrc and nano .bashrc

alias for editing .bashrc and sourcing it with a quick command, very useful for quickly adding and modifying alias' and functions in bashrc, create lots of alias from commandlinefu very quickly, use nano vim or any other edit if you want, very useful if you have a barcode scanner and you want to run commands quickly with barcodes Show Sample Output
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```
usage:
$ nbrc
edit .bashrc
press ctrl-x,y,enter
$ sbrc
```
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alias sbrc="source ~/.bashrc" && alias nbrc="nano ~/.bashrc"

professoralex · 2009-05-13 02:41:37 11
Syslog System Reporting in a shell
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tail -f --retry /var/log/syslog /var/log/auth.log | ccze -A

Yury · 2009-05-13 00:02:50 5
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Identify differences between directories (possibly on different servers)

This can be much faster than downloading one or both trees to a common servers and comparing the files there. After, only those files could be copied down for deeper comparison if needed.

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)

#4345 also works under windows

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

Delete backward from cursor, useful when you enter the wrong password

An alias to select a portion of your desktop and save it as an image.

bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

Renames all files in a directory named foo to bar. foobar1 gets renamed to barbar1 barfoo2 gets renamed to barbar2 fooobarfoo gets renamed to barobarfoo NOTE: Will break for files with spaces AND new lines AND for an empty expansion of the glob '*'

ls -qahlSr # list all files in size order - largest last

I find it useful, when cleaning up deleting unwanted files to make more space, to list in size order so I can delete the largest first. Note that using "q" shows files with non-printing characters in name. In this sample output (above), I found two copies of the same iso file both of which are immediate "delete candidates" for me.

Delete all empty lines from a file with vim

This command delete all the empty lines (include the lines with space) from a file. g = global command \S = non-whitespace character; !\S the opposite d = delete a range

Convert PDF to JPG

Without the bashisms and unnecessary sed dependency. Substitutions quoted so that filenames with whitespace will be handled correctly.

Unlock more space form your hard drive

This command changes the reserved space for privileged process on '/dev/sda' to 1 per cent.

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