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date -ud "1970/01/01 00:29:36" +%s

2011-11-01 17:02:46

User: frans

Functions: date

Tags: echo date time

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Convert HH:MM:SS into seconds

uses the -u switch for UTC

Another way could be

echo $(($(date -ud "00:29:36" +%s)%86400))

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chmod 777 a.sh #-rwxrwxrwx

2012-08-17 05:37:55

User: huazhihao

Functions: chmod

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totally dis-limit a sh file, usually not recommended

coz 1+2+4=7

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sudo shutdown 3600 -P

2013-04-14 16:14:23

User: unixmonkey45290

Functions: shutdown sudo

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Wait a moment and then Power off

You can easily stop shutdowning process by CTRL+C

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tail -f /proc/partitions

2012-08-17 05:57:12

User: huazhihao

Functions: tail

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detect partitions

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ifdata -pa eth0

2010-03-04 10:29:24

User: richard

Tags: ifdata moreutils

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simple echo of IPv4 IP addresses assigned to a machine

Require the moreutils package

ls -l | sed -e 's/--x/1/g' -e 's/-w-/2/g' -e 's/-wx/3/g' -e 's/r--/4/g' -e 's/r-x/5/g' -e 's/rw-/6/g' -e 's/rwx/7/g' -e 's/---/0/g'

2010-01-31 22:41:02

User: luishka

Functions: ls sed

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convert permissions in ls to octal

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date -j -v1d -v-0m -v-1d +'%m %d %Y'

2010-03-04 17:47:51

User: drewk

Functions: date

Tags: Date manipulation date POSIX

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Calculate the the last day of a month +/- from current month

This produces a parseable output of the last day of the month in future or past. Change the '-v-0m' to be a month plus or minus from the current system time.

echo "$(od -An -N4 -tu4 /dev/urandom) % 5 + 1" | bc

2010-08-10 12:10:21

User: dooblem

Functions: echo

Tags: random number integer

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Random Number Between 1 And X

This is /bin/sh compatible.

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(echo "" | xsel -o) ; (programa | wgetpaste -s dpaste | awk '{print $7}' | xsel -ai)

2010-03-05 09:31:30

User: dvinchi666

Functions: awk echo

Tags: pipes paste

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Super Paste

manda la salida de un comando hacia un servicio de paste y coloca la url de ese paste en el portapapeles

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wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'

2009-11-06 10:18:26

User: sanjaygoel

Functions: sed wget

Tags: Network IP external

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Get your external IP address

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sudo update-grub

2014-02-27 19:50:25

User: Anshik

Functions: sudo

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add fn brightness on notebook

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

This would open the Grub configuration file. In this file we have to edit the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=vendor"

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echo -n "Press any key to continue..." && read

2009-11-06 22:49:46

User: matthewbauer

Functions: echo

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Press Any Key to Continue

This works on some other version of read.

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aptitude show packages_name

2009-12-07 19:27:33

User: metalx1000

Tags: aptitude

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Show the meta information on a package (dependency , statuts ..) on debian derivative distro

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sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2011-04-26 21:12:06

User: renich

Functions: echo sync

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clean up memory on linux (fedora)

It clears caches from memory. It works fine on CentOS and Fedora. It will show you how much memory you need, for real.

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cowsay `fortune` | toilet --gay -f term

2010-06-07 14:54:55

User: mandroid

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Even better Cowsay/Fortune

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curl http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains | grep "<tr valign=\"top\">" | awk -F">" '{ print $5 }' | awk -F"<" '{ print $1 }'

2012-12-24 21:00:36

User: sxiii

Functions: awk grep

Tags: list domain name

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Oneliner to get domain names list of all existing domain names (from wikipedia)

alias apt-get='sudo apt-get'

2009-02-10 22:45:49

User: mogsie

Functions: alias

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Always run apt-get as root

apt-get must be run as root, and it is useless to run it as your own user. So just run it as root. Saves you the "sudo !!" every time you're adding a package.

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unzip \*.zip

2009-03-26 02:36:28

User: tiagofischer

Tags: unzip

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Unzip all files with ".zip" extension.

"unzip *.zip" doesn't work as expected, because unzip handle wildcards in a different way.

You just need to escape the wildcard or do in another way:

for f in *.zip; do unzip "$f"; done

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for i in *; do [[ ! -d $i && -x $i ]] && ./"$i" & done

2010-02-02 18:59:50

User: chilicuil

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Run every command on a directory

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hostinfo.sh

2009-02-11 01:15:14

User: kongxx

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Display the linux host infomation.

#!/bin/sh

_HOSTNAME=`hostname`

_HOSTTYPE=`echo $HOSTTYPE`

_MACHINETYPE=`echo $MACHTYPE`

_OSTYPE=`echo $OSTYPE`

_VENDOR=`echo $VENDOR`

_KERNEL=`uname -r | awk -F- '{print $1}'`

_GLIBC=`ls /lib/libc-*.so | awk -F- '/lib/ {print $2}' | awk -F. '{print $1"."$2}'`

_MEM=`cat /proc/meminfo | awk '/MemTotal/ {print $2 $3}'`

_CPU=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu MHz' | awk '{print $4}'`

echo '=============================='

echo 'HOSTNAME ' $_HOSTNAME

echo 'HOSTTYPE ' $_HOSTTYPE

echo 'MACHINETYPE ' $_MACHINETYPE

echo 'OSTYPE ' $_OSTYPE

echo 'VENDOR ' $_VENDOR

echo 'KERNEL ' $_KERNEL

echo 'GLIBC ' $_GLIBC

echo 'MEM INFO ' $_MEM

echo 'CPU INFO ' $_CPU

echo '=============================='

alias ltr 'ls -altr'

2011-06-11 03:22:13

User: drb532

Functions: alias

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Quick setup to list all directory contents by time reversed sort... most recent change last.

Create an alias to list all contents of the current directory in "reverse" time order. Thus the last modified file will appear just above your next prompt. Useful for remembering where you left off modifying files in a folder or just noting recent changes.

csh format but bash syntax similar

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unlink <linkname>

2009-03-12 01:52:24

User: topgun553

Functions: unlink

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Remove a symbolic link

if you had a symbolic link called "oldLink" in the current folder then you would want to do

unlink oldLink

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http://goosh.org

2009-08-29 12:19:34

User: unixbhaskar

Tags: web browser

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Seach google from the command line in Unofficial google shell

You can try it . Nice shell interface to search google from the command line.Visit http://goosh.org in your browser.

find . -type f | while read f; do chmod -x "$f"; done

2009-11-09 04:30:44

User: alesplin

Functions: chmod find read

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Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories

I hate -exec with find, and this pattern quickly expands to other tasks.

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moon-buggy

2009-04-22 05:41:40

User: eastwind

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When you have time to consume

sudo apt-get install moon-buggy

An ascii 2D game where you control a mooncar and try to avoid moonhole by jumping (press space )

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