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lynx -useragent=Opera -dump 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=4&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2
2010-04-13 12:44:08
User: pdan_23
Functions: cut gawk grep
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fb
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name . -exec du -sh {} +
2009-12-11 14:37:26
User: sorpigal
Functions: du find
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Parsing the output of ls is never a good idea for any reason. Using find this way:

- works with files that have spaces in their names.

- actually lists "sub folders" and not of all files and folders.

- does not break if there are a huge number of files in the current directory.

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ntop
2009-08-16 05:24:31
User: theIndianMaiden
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Network Information
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_ff(){ cd /mnt;echo /mnt/*/* |sed 's/ \/mnt\//\&/g' |sed '/'"$1"'/!d'; cd -;}
2011-12-30 23:25:31
User: argv
Functions: cd echo sed
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glob /mnt

_ff(){

cd /mnt;

echo /mnt/*/* |sed '

s/ \/mnt\//\&/g;

'|sed '/'"$1"'/!d';

cd -;

}

ff(){

case $# in

0)

echo "usage: ff glob [sed-cmds] [--|var-name]"

;;

1)

_ff $1 |sed =

;;

[2-9])

case $2 in

--) _ff $1 |less -SN

;;

*) _ff $1 |sed -n ''"$2"''|tr '\n' '\040' |sed 's/.*/export '"$3"'=\"&/;s/=\" /=\"/;s/ $/\"/' > $HOME/.ff;

case $# in

3)

. $HOME/.ff

;;

esac;

sed '

s/export .*=\"/\$'"$3"' = \"/;' $HOME/.ff;\

;;

esac

;;

esac;

}

v(){

local a=$HOME;

sed '

s/export /less -n \$/;

s/=.*//;

' $a/.ff > $a/.v ;

. $a/.v ;

}

Another approach using ls(1)

lsl(){

_lsl ()

{

ls -l $3 /mnt/*/$1* 2>/dev/null;

};

case $# in

0)

echo "usage: lsl pat [ls-options|result-no]";

echo "usage: lsle pat [sed-cmds]"

;;

1)

_lsl $1 |sed =

;;

2)

case $2 in

-*) _lsl $1 $@;;

*)

_lsl $1 |sed 's/.* //;

'"$2"'!d;

'"$2"'q' > $HOME/.lsl ;

export v=$(sed 1q $HOME/.lsl);

echo \$v = $v

;;

esac

;;

esac;

}

exp(){

echo "%s/\$/ /";

echo "%j";

echo "s/^/export v=\"";

echo "s/\$/\"";

echo "s/ \"\$/\"";

echo ".";

echo "wq";

}

lsle(){

lsl $1 -1 |sed $2 > .lsl&&

exp |ed -s .lsl >&-&&

. .lsl&&

echo \$v = $v;

}

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top
2009-03-18 00:03:42
User: Zenexer
Functions: top
Tags: Process Management
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View process statistics in realtime

A simple but effective replacement for ps aux. I used to waste my time running ps over and over; top is the way to go. It also allows complex sorting options. Press q to exit "nicely" (Ctrl + C is always an option, of course). Note that the list updates each second, resorting in the process; if you're trying to grab a specific PID, you might be better off with ps.

htop

Alternatively, htop is available, though it may not come pre-installed. htop is slightly more interactive than top and includes color coding, visuals, and a nice interface for selecting and then killing processes. (Thanks to bwoodacre for this great tool.)

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kill -9 `pgrep $PROCESS_NAME`
2010-06-18 20:43:24
User: juanse006
Functions: kill
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Kill a process by application

The pgrep retrieves the PID, then the KILL receive it, and kill it...

It works also if the application has more than one instance....

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kill_daemon() { echo "Daemon?"; read dm; kill -15 $(netstat -atulpe | grep $dm | cut -d '/' -f1 | awk '{print $9}') }; alias kd='kill_daemon
2009-05-26 20:39:56
User: P17
Functions: alias awk cut echo grep kill netstat read
Tags: alias kill netstat
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Kill a daemon by name, not by PID

Just find out the daemon with $ netstat -atulpe. Then type in his name and he gets the SIGTERM.

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dpkg-query -W | grep perl
2010-07-20 16:14:04
User: unixmonkey10924
Functions: grep
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Print a list of installed Perl modules

IMVHO if you are using cpan to install perl modules you are doing it wrong.

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FOR /f %%g in ('echo %1 ^| iconv -f gbk -t utf-8') DO curl -x proxy:port -u user:pass -d status=%%g -d source="cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2010-07-21 04:53:54
User: MeaCulpa
Functions: iconv
Tags: windows curl iconv
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Post to twitter via curl, Windows version

Aside from curl one will need iconv windows binary since windows lacks a native utf-8 cli interface. In my case I need a proxy in China and iconv to convert gbk status string into utf-8. GnuWin32 is a good choice with loads of coreutils natively ported to Windows

"FOR /f" is the solution to pass iconv output to curl.

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Printing portion of a big file
2009-03-30 11:08:38
User: acirulli
Tags: sed
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sed -n "$LINE1,${LINE2}p;${LINEA2}q;" "$FILE"

If you need to print some portion of a huge file, let's say you want to print from line 200 to 300, you can use this command to print the line from LINE1 to LINE2 of file FILE.

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shred -v filename
2013-05-07 14:58:17
User: techie
Functions: shred
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Delete a file securely by overwriting its contents
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dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/speaker bs=1
2010-10-27 09:22:40
User: khashmeshab
Functions: dd
Tags: speaker beep random
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Random Beeps on Your PC Speaker

Sends random beeps to your PC-speaker. Think... You can also run it remotely on another computer using SSH and scare its user! Don't forget to run it on your dedicated hosting server and watch sysadmin's action from data-center's live remote cameras!

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awk 'END {print NR}' /etc/passwd
2011-06-23 00:33:40
User: Leo_Gutierrez
Functions: awk
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How many lines does the passwd file have?
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dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/dsp
2010-10-27 09:25:02
User: khashmeshab
Functions: dd
Tags: speaker beep sound random
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Random Beeps on Your Audio Card's Output

Sends random sounds to your sound card output (e.g. your speaker). Think... You can also run it remotely on another computer using SSH and scare its user!

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echo 1+1|bc
2009-02-19 13:46:58
User: gnawa
Functions: echo
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doing some math...
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export var1=`ps -A | grep '[u]nique' | cut -d '?' -f 1`; echo${var1/ /}; kill -9 $var1
2010-03-22 21:06:58
User: headyadmin
Functions: cut export grep kill
Tags: Os X
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Kill process you don't know the PID of, when pidof and pgrep are not available.

This will kill a specific process you don't know the PID of, when pidof and pgrep are not available, for example on OS X. var1 is created so that the whitespace can be trimmed before passing off to kill.

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join file1.txt file2.txt > file3.txt
2009-03-01 05:12:07
User: olafrv
Functions: join
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Concatenate lines of to files, one by one
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apt-get search something | grep specific
2010-09-27 07:10:39
User: ProfOak
Functions: apt grep
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Refined repository search

replace apt-get with your distro's package manager.

Where 'something' is the package name, and 'specific' is what you're specifically looking for.

This helps if your query is 2+ words long.

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grep -A 3 -i "example" demo_text
2013-05-09 08:20:31
User: techie
Functions: grep
Tags: grep
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Print the matched line, along with the 3 lines after it.
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python -c "import socket; print '\n'.join(socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2])"
2009-04-30 16:10:43
User: haivu
Functions: python
Tags: Network python
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One-Liner to Display IP Addresses

The socket.gethostname() call returns the host name of the computer. The socket.gethostbyname_ex() call returns a list of three items: The host name, the list of aliases for this host, and a list of IP addresses. Recall that Python?s array starts with index 0, the socket.gethostbyname_ex(?)[2] expression refers to the list of IP addresses. Finally, the print statement prints out the IP addresses, one per line.

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curl whatismyip.org
2011-10-15 12:22:34
User: mathias
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What is my IP address?
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vim +143 filename.txt
2013-05-09 08:24:28
User: techie
Functions: vim
Tags: vim
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Go to a specified line in a file
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nawk '{line[NR]=$0} END{for (; NR>=1; NR--){print line[NR]}}' FILENAME
2009-03-20 12:43:31
User: lme
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reverse-print contents of a file
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sudo dmesg
2009-08-19 11:06:05
User: theIndianMaiden
Functions: sudo
Tags: system_profiler
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detected hardware and boot messages
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for i in $(file * | grep broken | cut -d : -f 1); do rm $i; done
2010-11-02 16:10:42
User: Znuff
Functions: cut file grep rm
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remove all dead symbolic links in a directory
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