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Hunt for the newest file.

Sort by time and Reverse to get Ascending order, then display a marker next to the a file, negate directory and select only 1 result Show Sample Output
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$ ls -trF | grep -v \/ | tail -n 1
ramonroche.sh*
```
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ls -trF | grep -v \/ | tail -n 1

mrpollo · 2011-09-14 20:05:37 4
git commit message and body
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git commit -m "commit title message" -m "commit body message";

shaybery · 2017-01-16 21:33:40 25
Delete all local branches that are not master [Windows]
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git branch | Where-Object { !$_.Contains('master') } | ForEach-Object { git branch -D $_.Trim() }

RaphHaddad · 2019-07-22 06:25:09 67
Get your external IP address

Request all information about my IP address in xml format
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curl ifconfig.me/all/xml

truemilk · 2010-04-21 20:45:17 3
strip id3 v1 and v2 tags from all mp3s in current dir and below
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find . -type f -iname "*.mp3" -exec id3v2 --delete-all {} \;

m1cawber · 2011-01-26 06:50:39 5
Convert filenames from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

Warn: use convmv or detox if you can: they are the right tools. But if you want to do it manually, you can use this command to find the problematic files and transliterate their accented characters to their ascii equivalent. (Useful when doing cd backup: growisofs may fail on files which come from the old iso8859-* days.)
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LANG=fr_FR.iso8859-1 find . -name '*['$'\xe9'$'\xea'$'\xeb'$'\xc9'']*'|while read f; do a="$(echo $f|iconv -f iso8859-1 -t ascii//TRANSLIT)"; echo "move $f => $a"; done

gibboris · 2011-04-06 17:03:31 3

pull list of links URLs from a given web page

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mojo get <URL> 'a[href]' attr href

bartonski · 2015-07-25 04:17:38 9

Convert an UNIX file to a DOS file.

This permit to convert an UNIX file to DOS file. You can use it in a loop to convert multiple files, like : for i in *.bat; do sed -i 's/$/\r/' $i; done
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sed -i 's/$/\r/' file

evolix · 2012-02-23 08:34:30 6
shell function to create an 'invisible regex' that won't show up when grepping the output from 'ps'

Note that `grep "$(ir foo)"` really doesn't save any typing, but wrapping this inside a second shell function will: psg() { grep "$(ir \"$@\")" ;} Show Sample Output
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```
$ ir foo
[f]oo

$ ps aux | grep "$(ir foo)"
[returns nothing]
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ir() { perl -pne 's/(.)(.*)/\[\1]\2/' <<< "$@" ;}

bartonski · 2015-07-25 14:13:33 12
Download screenshot or frame from YouTube video at certain timestamp

Downloads the frame of given YouTube video at 8 minutes 14 seconds. Requested format is "299", which 1080p only video.
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ffmpeg -ss 8:14 -i $(youtube-dl -f 299 --get-url URL) -vframes 1 -q:v 2 out.jpg

bugmenot · 2021-07-06 10:59:49 195
Renaming jpg extension files at bunch
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find . -name "*.jpg" | perl -ne'chomp; $name = $_; $quote = chr(39); s/[$quote\\!]/_/ ; print "mv \"$name\" \"$_\"\n"'

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:44:54 11
tail all logs opened by all java processes

Tail all logs that are opened by all java processes. This is helpful when you are on a new environment and you do not know where the logs are located. Instead of java you can put any process name. This command does work only for Linux. The list of all log files opened by java process: sudo ls -l $(eval echo "/proc/{$(echo $(pgrep java)|sed 's/ /,/')}/fd/")|grep log|sed 's/[^/]* //g'
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sudo ls -l $(eval echo "/proc/{$(echo $(pgrep java)|sed 's/ /,/')}/fd/")|grep log|sed 's/[^/]* //g'|xargs -r tail -f

vutcovici · 2010-07-30 18:20:00 3
Convert videos to AVI format

Requires mencoder. Show Sample Output
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Video stream:  511.895 kbit/s  (63986 B/s)  size: 6808204 bytes  106.400 secs  1504 frames
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mencoder FILENAME.3gp -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o FILENAME.avi

o0110o · 2013-03-25 23:30:15 4
Pull multiple repositories in child folders (a.k.a. I'm back from leave script) [Windows]
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gci -Directory | foreach {Push-Location $_.Name; git fetch --all; git checkout master; git pull; Pop-Location}

RaphHaddad · 2019-07-22 06:26:03 563
cd canonical (resolve any symlinks)
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alias cdc='cd `pwd -P`'

adavies42 · 2009-02-05 10:15:11 36
Create a new chrome profile and run it

Change the value of p to match the path where you wish to create the profile. To run it again in the future, use the parameter --user-data-dir (which gets echoed to you when run): chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/path/to/your/ Quick Functions: # create a new chromium profile new-chromium-profile() { p=~/.config/chromium/$1; cp -r ~/.config/chromium/Default $p && echo "chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$p" && chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$p; } # runs a chromium profile run-chromium-profile() { chromium-browser --user-data-dir=~/.config/chromium/$1; } Show Sample Output
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chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/z/.config/chromium/zed

[A new chrome profile gets created and runs itself.]
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p=~/.config/chromium/zed; cp -r ~/.config/chromium/Default $p && echo "chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$p" && chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$p;

zed · 2010-11-08 02:45:29 4
To generate the list of dates using bash shell
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now=`date +"%Y/%m/%d" -d "04/02/2005"` ; end=`date +"%Y/%m/%d" -d "07/31/2005"`; while [ "$now" != "$end" ] ; do now=`date +"%Y/%m/%d" -d "$now + 1 day"`; echo "$now"; done

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:46:49 12
truncate files without output redirection or temporary file creation

This is good for cleaning up log files without having to erase the entire contents of the file, and allows you to keep the most recent entries to the log only
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sed -i 's/`head -n 500 foo.log`//' foo.log

kevinquinnyo · 2011-05-23 09:41:35 7
Get your external IP address
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wget ifconfig.me/ip -q -O -

DamirX · 2011-11-30 08:30:35 3
empty a gettext po-file (or, po2pot)

basically create a .pot file from a po-file, ready for translating
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msgfilter --keep-header -i input.po -o empty.po awk -e '{}'

unhammer · 2012-01-14 13:29:26 5
Random integer number between FLOOR and RANGE

This one-liner outputs a random number between the values given for FLOOR and RANGE. Show Sample Output
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6
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FLOOR=0; RANGE=10; number=0; while [ "$number" -le $FLOOR ]; do number=$RANDOM; let "number %= $RANGE"; done; echo $number

raphink · 2009-02-20 09:33:56 13
get ^DJI
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getdji (){local url sedcmd;url='http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=^DJI';sedcmd='/(DJI:.*)/,/Day.*/!d;s/^ *//g;';sedcmd="$sedcmd/Change:/s/Down / -/;/Change:/s/Up / +/;";sedcmd="$sedcmd/Open:/s//& /";lynx -dump "$url" | sed "$sedcmd"; }

twfcc · 2009-10-26 09:00:18 5
Find the files that include a TODO statement within a project
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find . -iname '*TODO*'

Force4 · 2011-04-07 09:58:11 53
Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.

Replaces space in a file with a underline
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find ./ $1 -name "* *" | while read a ; do mv "${a}" "${a//\ /_}" ; done

mamue · 2011-07-04 08:40:34 3
Shutdown all VMWare ESX VMs from commandline

This command will shutdown all VMs on an VMWare ESX host. First it tries to gracefully shutdown the VM. If that fails it will hard shutdown and the power off.
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for vm in `/usr/bin/vmware-cmd -l`; do /usr/bin/vmware-cmd "${vm}" stop trysoft; done

maxheadroom · 2011-09-15 06:56:49 3
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Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

static compilation

Insert the last argument of the previous command

for example if you did a: $ ls -la /bin/ls then $ ls !$ is equivalent to doing a $ ls /bin/ls

shutdown if wget exit

move you up one directory quickly

In bash, this turns on auto cd. If a command is just a directory name, it cd's into that directory.

Copy a file and force owner/group/mode

This is useful when you want to copy a file and also force a user, a group and a mode for that file. Note: if you want to move that file instead of copying it, you can use $install -o user -g group -m 755 /path/to/file /path/to/dir/ && rm -f /path/to/file which will remove the file only if the install command went fine.

one-liner mpc track changer using dmenu

Add a [fluxbox] binding in your key file then this command provides a dmenu selector for the next track to play

escape any command aliases

e.g. if rm is aliased for 'rm -i', you can escape the alias by prepending a backslash: rm [file] # WILL prompt for confirmation per the alias \rm [file] # will NOT prompt for confirmation per the default behavior of the command

Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.

Streams youtube video with v=ID directly into the mplayer. If exists, it uses the HD-quality stream. If you don't want to watch it in HD-quality, you can use the shorter form: $ID=52DnUo6wJto; mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?&video_id=$ID$(wget -qO - 'http://youtube.com/watch?v='$ID | perl -ne 'print $1."&asv=" if /^.*(&t=.*?)&.*$/')")

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