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Record Alexa Traffic Stats of your Website

This will record the Alexa Traffic Stats to a file and run every 5 hours. -- www.fir3net.com --
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x=1 ; while [ $x -le 10 ] ; do lynx -dump http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://[YOUR WEBSITE] | grep Global | sed 's/ \|Global\|\,//g' >> /var/log/alexa-stats.txt ; sleep 5h ; done &

felix001 · 2009-10-17 13:48:05 3
get the ascii number with bash builtin printf
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printf "%d\n" "'A" "'B"

twfcc · 2009-10-17 09:50:44 4
Function to output an ASCII character given its decimal equivalent

Doesn't fail for percent sign now.
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chr () { echo -en "\0$(printf %x $1)"}

infinull · 2009-10-16 21:54:58 3
Get decimal ascii code from character

uses the previous "chr" function and uses it to create the inverse function "ord" by brute force. It's slow, It's inelegant, but it works. I thought I needed ord/chr to do a cartesian cipher in shell script a whie ago, but eventualy I realized I could get fancy with tr and do the same thing...
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ord () { seq 1 127 | while read i; do echo `chr $i` $i; done | grep "^$1 " | cut -c '3-' }

infinull · 2009-10-16 21:54:01 4
Function to output an ASCII character given its decimal equivalent
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chr() { printf \\$(printf %o $1); }

zude · 2009-10-16 19:10:44 3
Less a grep result, going directly to the first match in the first file

Really useful way to combine less and grep while browsing log files. I can't figure out how to make it into a true oneliner so paste it into a script file called lgrep: Usage: lgrep searchfor file1 [file2 file3] Advanced example (grep for an Exception in logfiles that starts with qc): lgrep Exception $(find . -name "qc*.log") Show Sample Output
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```
      91 DomPEtlMotorServer1.log00110.gz:        at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:200)
      92 DomPEtlMotorServer1.log00110.gz:        at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:172)
*     93 DomPEtlMotorServer1.log00110.gz:org.hibernate.PropertyValueException: not-null property references a null or transient value
      94 DomPEtlMotorServer1.log00110.gz:        at org.hibernate.engine.Nullability.checkNullability(Nullability.java:95)
```
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argv=("$@"); rest=${argv[@]:1}; less -JMN +"/$1" `grep -l $1 $rest`

lassel · 2009-10-16 17:36:16 3
Clear your history saved into .bash_history file!

Note the space before the command; that prevents your history eliminating command from being recorded. ' history -c && rm -f ~/.bash_history' Both steps are needed. 'history -c' clears what you see in the history command. 'rm -f ~/.bash_history' deletes the history file in your home directory.
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history -c && rm -f ~/.bash_history

unixmonkey6650 · 2009-10-16 13:48:20 6
Clear your history saved into .bash_history file!

clears the history
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history -c

yooreck · 2009-10-16 13:21:36 3
Clear your history saved into .bash_history file!
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echo "" > .bash_history

osvaldofilho · 2009-10-16 12:55:53 3
google search

not my cmd... found on the web Show Sample Output
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```
  12. http://g33kinfo.com/
  15. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=386
  18. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=440
  20. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=441
  22. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=288
  25. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=355
  28. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=327
  31. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=400
  34. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=102
  37. http://g33kinfo.com/info/?p=402
```
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perl -e '$i=0;while($i<10){open(WGET,qq/|xargs lynx -dump/);printf WGET qq{http://www.google.com/search?q=site:g33kinfo.com&hl=en&start=$i&sa=N},$i+=10}'|grep '\/\/g33kinfo.com\/'

op4 · 2009-10-16 12:20:17 7
Email if you disk is over 90%

Email if you disk is over 90% - www.fir3net.com
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HDD=$(df | awk ' NR>3 (S=$5) (M=$6) { if (S>90) print "Your Systems "M" is """S" Full" } ') ; [[ $HDD ]] && echo "$HDD" | mail -s "Hard-Drives Full" TO@EMAIL.com -- -f FROM@EMAIL.com >/dev/null

felix001 · 2009-10-16 06:52:36 5
tail, with specific pattern colored
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tail -F file | egrep --color 'pattern|$'

sklm · 2009-10-16 04:01:14 10
Set gnome wallpaper to a random jpg from the specified directory

Every time this is run it will change your background picture. For added fun Add some DBUS magic: . $HOME/.dbus/session-bus/`cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id`-0 export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and a crontab entry: */5 * * * * above_command_in_script.sh >/dev/null 2>/dev/null now wallpaper changes every 5 mins
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gconftool -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "`find /DIR_OF_JPGS -name '*.jpg' | shuf -n 1`"

cbrinker · 2009-10-16 01:17:47 5
A quick shell command to weed out the small wallpapers

For all of the jpgs in a directory, determine their size and if below a threshold remove them forcefully.
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for i in ~/Desktop/Personal/Wallpapers/*.jpg ; { size=$((`identify -format "%wx%h" $i | sed 's/x/*/'`)) ; if [[ $size -lt 800001 ]] then ; rm -f "$i" ; fi; }

cbrinker · 2009-10-16 00:21:21 4
Convert video type from mpg to wmv
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mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=98 -o output.wmv input.mpg

gombiuda · 2009-10-16 00:18:57 3
disk space email alert

put it in crontab to get an alert when / is over 89% utilization.
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[ $(df / | perl -nle '/([0-9]+)%/ && print $1') -gt 90 ] && df -hP | mutt -s "Disk Space Alert -- $(hostname)" admin@example.com

grokskookum · 2009-10-15 21:11:54 8
rsync + find

use find with rsync
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find . -name "whatever.*" -print0 | rsync -av --files-from=- --from0 ./ ./destination/

grokskookum · 2009-10-15 20:06:38 21
Transforms a file to all uppercase.
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perl -i -ne 'print uc $_' $1

rbs · 2009-10-15 16:59:38 4
Create a list of sequential logins

This command generates a sequential login list. Good to be used as a source of new logins.
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seq -w 100 | sed 's/^/login/'

lawrence · 2009-10-15 13:56:56 10
tail, with specific pattern colored

but you can't see the colors in that sample output :( Show Sample Output
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```
seq 1111 1122|egrep --color=always $\|12
1111
1112
1113
1114
1115
1116
1117
1118
1119
1120
1121
1122
```
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tail -f file | egrep --color=always $\|PATTERN

sitaram · 2009-10-15 13:08:30 15
Creating sequence of number with text

Nice command to create a list, you can create too with for command, but this is so faster. Show Sample Output
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```
jeju:[xxxx] > seq 10 |xargs -n1 echo Printing line
Printing line 1
Printing line 2
Printing line 3
Printing line 4
Printing line 5
Printing line 6
Printing line 7
Printing line 8
Printing line 9
Printing line 10
jeju:[xxxx] >
```
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seq 10 |xargs -n1 echo Printing line

Waldirio · 2009-10-15 11:05:35 7
To print a specific line from a file

You can get one specific line during any procedure. Very interesting to be used when you know what line you want. Show Sample Output
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```
jeju:[xxx] > sed -n 5p test
line 5
jeju:[xxx] > cat test
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
line 6
line 7
line 8
line 9
line 10
jeju:[xxx] >
```
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sed -n 5p <file>

Waldirio · 2009-10-15 11:00:48 140
Function to output an ASCII character given its decimal equivalent

I've corrected the function. My octal conversion formula was completely wrong. Thanks to pgas at http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/071 for setting me straight. The new function is from pgas and is very fast. Show Sample Output
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```
$ chr 65
A
```
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chr () { printf \\$(($1/64*100+$1%64/8*10+$1%8)); }

dennisw · 2009-10-15 07:01:54 7
Proxy all web traffic via ssh

Run this on a windows machine then add your localhost as a socks server for port 8080 within your web browser. Your traffic will now be proxying and sent via your server over ssh.
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Putty -d 8080 [server]

felix001 · 2009-10-15 06:54:58 5
colored tail
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tail -f FILE | grep --color=always KEYWORD

dennisw · 2009-10-15 06:54:45 8
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Carriage return for reprinting on the same line

The above code is just an example of printing on the same line, hit Ctrl + C to stop When using echo -ne "something\r", echo will: - print "something" - dont print a new line (-n) - interpret \r as carriage return, going back to the start of the line (-e) Remember to print some white spaces after the output if your command will print lines of different sizes, mainly if one line will be smaller than the previous Edit from reading comments: You can achieve the same effect using printf (more standardized than echo): while true; do printf "%-80s\r" "$(date)"; sleep 1; done

Replace all tabs with spaces in an application

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Run a file system check on your next boot.

The empty file /forcefsck causes the file system check fsck to be run next time you boot up, after which it will be removed. This works too: $sudo >/forcefsck

Remove EXIF data from images with progress

uncomment the lines where the word DEBUG is found

Archive all SVN repositories in platform indepenent form

This command dumps all SVN repositories inside of folder "repMainPath" (not recursively) to the folder "dumpPath", where one dump file will be created for each SVN repository.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Paged, colored svn diff

I put this in a shell script called "svndiff", as it provides a handy decorated "svn diff" output that is colored (which you can't see here) and paged. The -r is required so less doesn't mangle the color codes.

Create a backup copy of a MySQL database on the same host

This should probably only be used for testing in a dev environment as it's not terribly efficient, but if you're doing something that might trash a DB and you still want the old data available, this works like a charm.

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