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Delete Text Editor's Backup
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find . -name "*~" -exec rm {} \;

yasu00000 · 2009-02-06 06:46:30 19
Greets the user appropriately
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echo -e "12 morning\n15 afternoon\n24 evening" | awk '{if ('`date +%H`' < $1) print "Good " $2}'

bazardeur · 2010-09-24 21:15:23 4
convert uppercase to lowercase
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tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' < input.txt > output.txt

jonatasnona · 2013-03-14 19:14:09 6
kerberos authentication
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kinit username

lshmouse · 2010-03-21 13:29:32 3
...if you have sudo access, you could just install ssh-copy-id (Mac users: take note. this is how you install ssh-copy-id )

Mac install ssh-copy-id From there on out, you would upload keys to a server like this: (make sure to double quote the full path to your key) ssh-copy-id -i "/PATH/TO/YOUR/PRIVATE/KEY" username@server or, if your SSH server uses a different port (often, they will require that the port be '2222' or some other nonsense: (note the double quotes on *both* the "/path/to/key" and "user@server -pXXXX"): ssh-copy-id -i "/PATH/TO/YOUR/PRIVATE/KEY" "username@server -pXXXX" ...where XXXX is the ssh port on that server
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sudo curl "http://hg.mindrot.org/openssh/raw-file/c746d1a70cfa/contrib/ssh-copy-id" -o /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id && sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id

misterich · 2012-02-09 20:29:24 5
keep an eye on system load changes
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watch -n 7 -d 'uptime | sed s/.*users?, //'

matthewbauer · 2010-01-17 18:45:52 3
Get DMX disk ID from the ODM database of a DMX attached disk. It is ok for virtual disks.

It will parse the unique_id stanza in ODM database to get the DMX id. Show Sample Output
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```
hdisk0
0x15DC
hdisk1
0x0829
```
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odmget -q "attribute=unique_id" CuAt |sed -n 's/.*name = "$.*$"/\1/p;s/.*value = "..........$....$..SYMMETRIX..EMCfcp.*"/0x\1/p;s/.*value =//p'

keymon · 2010-05-14 11:54:04 3
[zsh]: what does 'nyae' mean?

zsh has a powerful correction mechanism. If you type a command in the wrong way it suggests corrections. What happend here is that dir is an unknown command and zsh suggests gdir, while maybe ls was what you wanted. If you want to execute gdir hit y (yes) If you want to try to execute dir anyway hit n (no) If you want to execute completely different spelt command like ls hit a (abort) and type your command If you want to execute a similar spelt commant like udir hit e (edit) and edit your command. Show Sample Output
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```
zsh has a powerful correction mechanism. If you type a command in the wrong way it suggests corrections. What happend here is that dir is an unknown command and zsh suggests gdir, while maybe ls was what you wanted.

If you want to execute gdir hit y (yes)
If you want to try to execute dir anyway hit n (no)
If you want to execute completely different spelt command like ls hit a (abort) and type your command
If you want to execute a similar spelt commant like udir hit e (edit) and edit your command.
```
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setopt correct

evandrix · 2012-09-11 01:47:20 5
while true ; do cpulimit -z -p $( pidof cc1 ) -l 5; sleep 1; done
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Limit kernel compilation load

rubenmoran · 2012-11-12 18:04:40 4
find all files of a type which don't match a specific name

Finds all nfo files without the filename movie.nfo and deletes them.
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for output in $(find . ! -name movie.nfo -name "*.nfo") ; do rm $output ; done

analbeard · 2014-04-01 17:41:50 8
change the all files which contains xxxxx to yyyyyy

This script first find all files which contains word xxxxx recursively. Then replace the word xxxxx to yyyyy of the files. Use case: - Web site domain change - Function name change of the program
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grep -r -l xxxxx . | xargs perl -i -pe "s/xxxxx/yyyyy/g"

hassylin · 2009-02-06 08:18:50 18
Loopback mount .iso on FreeBSD

FreeBSD version of the Linux command mount discimg.iso /cdrom -o loop The "mdconfig" command creates a device and prints the name (typically "md0"). Just append that to "/dev/" and mount. Once unmounted, you can unconfigure the device with mdconfig -d -u 0 using "0" for md0, "1" for md1, etc.
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mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f discimg.iso` /cdrom

mulad · 2009-02-19 06:31:14 5
Add another column printing cumulative sum of entries in first column, sum being less than or equal to 100
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for f in .; do awk 'BEGIN {sum=0;flag=0} {sum=sum+$1; if (flag == 0) { print $1"\t"sum > "cumulative.'$f'" } if (sum > 100) flag=1 }' $f; done

user1234 · 2013-10-05 13:35:30 6
Show best quote from reddit to your terminal

The rsstail is the python version (python-rsstail). The final command pipe it on every new line to gammu and a connected phone rsstail -o -n 1 --f 'RedditQuote: {title}' http://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/new/.rss | while read line; do /usr/bin/gammu --sendsms TEXT +*yournumber* -text "$line"; done Show Sample Output
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```
RedditQuote: ?You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.? &#8213; Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry, The Little Prince
```
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rsstail -o -n 1 --f 'RedditQuote: {title}' http://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/new/.rss

Youpfu · 2014-01-08 15:33:48 8
shows which files differ in two direcories

--dry-run will only show you which files would be otherwise synced with rsync. -z is for compressio -v vervose -a "as is" - permissions, ownership etc.
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rsync -avz --dry-run /somewhere/source_directory /somewhereelse/target_directory

tsener · 2014-04-01 20:55:59 7
Search through files, ignoring .svn

Unless you have files that include 'svn' in them, this should provide enough information to be useful. If you need to be certain, add the leading dot in the search pattern
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find . | grep -v svn

gwchamb · 2011-01-16 03:51:57 4
Kill an orphan console

when sometimes do a "w" or "who" command and see an orphan console session from time ago, you could kill with this command. where ttyS0 its the console to kill.
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skill -KILL -t ttyS0

jipipayo · 2009-05-26 21:47:33 5
Connect to irssi over ssh

This will launch and irssi session on your server. If it's not running, it will create the session. If it's running it'll connect to it and destroy any other connections. If compositing is available, the rxvt window will have transparency added. This window will also open maximized. Anything else this does should be easily figured out in the man pages.
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rxvt-unicode -g 999x999 -sr -depth 32 -bg rg-ba:0000/0000/0000/dddd +sb -T irssi -n irssi -name irssichat -e ssh server.com -Xt screen -aAdr -RR irssi irssi

MTecknology · 2009-07-30 04:53:17 4
Find packages on Ubuntu/Debian based on their description

Especially useful for latex packages, which are listed in the description of their Ubuntu package E.g. say I want to find the Ubuntu package containing latex package aeguill: aptitude search ~daeguill p texlive-lang-french - TeX Live: French
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aptitude search ~d<string>

junkieDolphin · 2011-08-02 05:19:13 5
checkout directory and the files it contains, without any further subdirectories
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cvs checkout -l project/src/

kev · 2011-09-08 01:34:23 3
sort and show disk space (largest first) with human readable sizes
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du -hs `du -sk * | sort -rn | cut -f2-`

unixmonkey62734 · 2013-07-26 05:34:55 7
print nearest multiples of 100 in a file
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awk 'BEGIN {count=0;prev=-1} {if(count>0) { if(int($1/100) > int(prev/100)) {print $1} } ; prev=$1; count++}' inputFile > rounded

user1234 · 2013-10-05 18:30:08 7
Show total cumulative memory usage of a process that spawns multiple instances of itself
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CMD=chrome ; ps h -o pmem -C $CMD | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

pdxdoughnut · 2014-01-08 23:05:09 8
forking a process from gnome-terminal detached from the terminal.

this will open the current directory in nautilus detached from your terminal.
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nohup gnome-open . 0</dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null&

drunkcoder · 2010-03-22 07:19:37 4
Remove color codes (special characters) with sed
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cat input.txt | sed 's/\\\033[^a-zA-Z]*.//g'

lingo · 2011-08-02 05:27:36 4
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Show the key code for keyboard events include the Fn keys

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Quickly build ulimit command from current values

It is helpful to know the current limits placed on your account, and using this shortcut is a quick way to figuring out which values to change for optimization or security. Alias is: $ alias ulimith="command ulimit -a|sed 's/^.*$[a-z]$)$.*$$/-\1\2/;s/^/ulimit /'|tr '\n' ' ';echo" Here's the result of this command: $ ulimit -c 0 -d unlimited -e 0 -f unlimited -i 155648 -l 32 -m unlimited -n 8192 -p 8 -q 819200 -r 0 -s 10240 -t unlimited -u unlimited -v unlimited -x unlimited $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 155648 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 8192 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited

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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

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Top 15 processes with the largest number of open files

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gzip compression with progress bar and remaining time displayed

Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.

This is the result of a several week venture without X. I found myself totally happy without X (and by extension without flash) and was able to do just about anything but watch YouTube videos... so this a the solution I came up with for that. I am sure this can be done better but this does indeed work... and tends to work far better than YouTube's ghetto proprietary flash player ;-) Replace $i with any YouTube ID you want and this will scrape the site for the _real_ URL to the full quality .FLV file on Youtube's server and will then will hand that over to mplayer (or vlc or whatever you want) to be streamed. In some browsers you can replace $i with just a % or put this in a shell script so all YouTube IDs can be handed directly off to your media player of choice for true streaming without the need for Flash or a downloader like clive. (I do however fully recommend clive if you wish to archive videos instead of streaming them) If any interest is shown I would be more than happy to provide similar commands for other sites. Most streaming flash players use similar logic to YouTube. Edit: 05/03/2011 - Updated line to work with current YouTube. It could be a lot prettier but I will probably follow up with another update when I figure out how to get rid of that pesky Grep. Sed should take that syntax... but it doesn't. Original (no longer working) command: mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?$(curl -s $youtube_url | sed -n "/watch_fullscreen/s;.*$video_id.\+$&title.*;\1;p")")

rename anime fansubs

renames Anime Episodes to files, that can be parsed by sonarr & co

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