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lynx -dump ip.nuYour IP address is 0.0.0.00lynx -dump ip.nu -
also use: update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser
0update-alternatives --config x-www-browser -
0find . -type f | xargs -I% bash -c 'echo -e "\033[31m%\033[0m" && [[ ! `file %` =~ .*binary.* ]] && head "%"'
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It is not the installed size in files, but the size of RPM packages. Show Sample Output
0rpm -qa --queryformat '%{SIZE}\n' | awk '{sum += $1} END {printf("Total size in packages = %4.1f GB\n", sum/1024**3)}' -
Uses the python-based AWS CLI (https://aws.amazon.com/cli/) and the JSON query tool, JQ (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
0aws ec2 describe-instances --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*]" | jq '.[]|.[]|(if .Tags then (.Tags[]|select(.Key == "Name").Value) else empty end)+", " +.InstanceId' -
The dmesg will show the kernel it is booting. No more dependency on files Show Sample Output
0dmesg -
Just 253 chars of pure UNIX magic, with curl. I created this contrived bash one-liner while building a command-line bash game : www.rubegoldbash.com. Show Sample Output
0curl -s ip.appspot.com | xargs -n 1 curl -s "freegeoip.net/csv/$1" | cut -d ',' -f '9 10' | sed 's/,/\&lon=/g' | xargs -n 1 echo "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?mode=html&lat=$1" | sed 's/ //g' | xargs -n 1 curl -s $1 | lynx -stdin -dump -
Requires ffmpeg with image2pipe filter and imagemagick Show Sample Output
0ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=w=320:h=-1 -r 10 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert -delay 5 -loop 0 - output.gif -
0diff *txt -u | less
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0tput rmso
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Find (by regular expression) and compress (xzip) catalogs then remove source catalogs
0find . -type d |awk '$1 ~ /[0-9]/ {print $0}' |xargs -P 4 -I NAME tar --remove-files -vcJf NAME.tar.xz NAME -
create tar.bz2 package from files "-type f" modificated today "-mtime -1" in ~/project
0find ~/project -mtime -1 -type f -print | tar jcvf myfiles.tar.bz2 -T - -
On Solaris 10 you used dtconfig -d to achieve this. The command will disable X and your system will now boot to a text console.
0svcadm disable gdm -
0sox is_that_correct.wav -t raw -r 8000 -s -w -c 1 is_that_correct.sln
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Requires wdiff. Prints the word-by-word diff with the old version highlighted in red, and the new in green. Change the colors by altering 41m and 42m. 45m is more of a magenta and may be easier to read.
0wdiff -n -w $'\033[30;41m' -x $'\033[0m' -y $'\033[30;42m' -z $'\033[0m' oldversion.txt newversion.txt -
0ln -s "`find /path -type f -iname $(ls -t /path | head -1 )`" /path/latest
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Prints top 5 twitter topics. Not very well written at all but none of the others worked.
0curl -s mobile.twitter.com/search | sed -n '/trend_footer_list/,/\ul>/p' | awk -F\> '{print $3}' | awk -F\< '{print $1}' | sed '/^$/d' -
0lynx -dump http://www.ip2location.com/ | sed -n '/^ *Field Name *Value *$/,/^ *\[_\] *Mobile .*Carrier.*name/p'
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0find -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.*\.(css|js)$' | xargs -I{} sh -c "echo '{}' && yuicompressor '{}' | gzip -c > '{}.gz'"
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Warnings and errors will be suppressed Show Sample Output
0grep --include=\*.html -R "some string" . 2>/dev/null -
NSFW - use this on personal laptops where you want your personal user to have all the groups Show Sample Output
0cut -f1 -d: /etc/group|xargs -n1 -I{} gpasswd -a $USERNAME {} -
select generic 105 intl. pc > german (turkisch)
0dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration -
0sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' /usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.conf >/tmp/snap.conf
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This turns your iptables packet filter to a "Allow any from any to any" filter, so you can rule out any filtering issues when you have a problem to enable a connection from or to your host. To re-enable it, run /etc/init.d/iptables restart
0iptables -F && iptables -X && iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT && iptables -OUTPUT ACCEPT -
Basically an improvement on an earlier ethtool command line. Show Sample Output
0for i in /sys/class/net/*; do e=`basename $i`; echo "# $e"; sudo ethtool $e | grep -E "Link|Speed" ; done - ‹ First < 425 426 427 428 429 > Last ›
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