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Note the g for global in the perl expression; without it, only the first occurrence in the name would be replaced.

uses tar to dump files from /orignl/path to /dst/dir. i find tar's out more readable than cp, and it doesn't mess with modified dates.

burn all those sweet iso's from the command line. replace speed=2 with more if your media supports it and you're brave!

This will check all .HTML file contents for the word "Hacked" and dump it to hacklog.txt. This is great for located all those files affected by nasty Joomla exploits. Change the .HTML to any other extension you wish to check, and of course the word "HACKED" for other searches.

This will tell you who has the most Apache connections by IP (replace IPHERE with the actual IP you wish to check). Or if you wish, remove | grep -c IPHERE for the full list.

List top 20 IP from which TCP connection is in SYN_RECV state.

Useful on web servers to detect a syn flood attack.

Replace SYN_ with ESTA to find established connections

run as root and use it fo find file you're looking for.

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.

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

pbpaste ... well pastes whats on the clipboard.

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

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

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

Just another curl command to get your public facing IP

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)

This works on Solaris 10.

##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.

lpadmin

time-admin

network-admin

svnadmin

users-admin

django-admin

shares-admin

services-admin

G - uses VT100 line drawing

a - shows command line arguments of process

p - prints PID of process

For other options, man pstree :)

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

for e.g.

('162.11517', '76.817357')

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

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

Print 0 through 99, each on a separate line.