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declare -i i=0 ; for file in * ; do i=$[$i+1] ; mv "$file" $i; done

2010-08-26 12:40:58

User: pepin

Functions: file mv

Tags: rename numerate

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Numerate files, rename files in a directory by incremental number

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sed 's/$//'

2009-02-16 21:04:37

User: grep

Functions: sed

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convert DOS newlines to unix newlines

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cat /etc/debian_version

2009-08-05 14:47:05

User: caiosba

Functions: cat

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Find out your Debian version

Easy way to find out what Debian version your machine is running

cat x

2011-09-15 11:53:47

User: umahp44

Functions: cat

Tags: cat file number

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Show line numbers in a text file

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useradd -G {group-name} username

2013-10-31 13:16:59

User: jmorganwalker

Functions: useradd

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Add a user to a group

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sedit() { cp "$*"{,.bk}; which $EDITOR > /dev/null && $EDITOR "$*" || vim "$*"; }

2011-08-16 18:28:22

User: kaedenn

Functions: cp vim which

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Backup a file before editing it.

Some people put spaces in filenames. Others have an $EDITOR environment variable set. This defaults to vim, but you can use whatever you wish: emacs, nano, ed, butterflies, etc.

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for a in $(seq 5 8); do cat twit.txt | cut -d " " -f$a | grep "^@" | sort -u; done > followlst.txt

2013-03-29 21:07:09

User: xmuda

Functions: cat cut grep seq sort

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Get fresh FollowBack list for Twitter

Go to "https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23TeamFollowBack&src=hash" and then copy al the text on the page. If you scroll down the page will be bigger. Then put al the text in a text file called twit.txt

If you follow the user there is a high probability the users give you follow back.

To follow all the users you can use an iMacros script.

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cat /etc/*issue

2009-05-07 20:53:03

User: lv4tech

Functions: cat

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Find out which version of linux you are running

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FAIL2BAN=`ps ax | grep fail2ban | grep -v grep | awk {'print $1'}` && if [ -n "$FAIL2BAN" ]; then printf "\n[INFO] Fail2Ban is running and the PID is %s\n\n" $FAIL2BAN; else printf "\n [INFO] Fail2Ban is not running\n\n"; fi

2009-02-11 04:36:49

User: fmdlc

Functions: awk grep printf

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Check if Fail2Ban is Running

Check if Fail2Ban is running on the system and alert it with a message in the terminal

pv file1 > file2

2010-02-25 19:18:32

User: ppaschka

Tags: pv copy progress progress

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Copy with progress

Only works on single files, doesn't preserve permissions/timestamps/ownership.

(crontab -e) 00 12 * * * apt-get update (/etc/init.d/cron restart)

2009-10-29 12:45:26

User: osvaldofilho

Functions: crontab

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Update your system every day at the lunch time (12:00)

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alias lh='ls -a | egrep "^\."'

2009-03-05 20:36:58

User: fabs

Functions: alias egrep

Tags: bash hidden ls alias

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alias to list hidden files of a folder

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fdisk -l /dev/sda

2012-06-05 10:17:54

User: netaxiz

Functions: fdisk

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See size of partitions

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rd /S /Q directory

2012-08-07 18:08:36

User: bugmenot

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Remove very large or problematic directories under Windows from Command Prompt

When it says "Invalid Directory Name"

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setenforce 0

2013-04-05 15:38:05

User: techie

Tags: selinux

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Turn off SE Linux

This will turn off SE Linux

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ifconfig |grep broadcast | awk '{print $2}'

2012-12-05 03:57:46

User: fotoflo

Functions: awk grep ifconfig

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get LAN ip

get the ip address on your LAN

ls -saltS [dirname]

2011-09-18 22:03:11

User: ztank1013

Functions: ls

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Salty detailed directory listing...

It lists files and folder under dirname adding at the beginning of each line the file allocated size in blocks (-s). It also sorts output by file size (-S) from bigger to smaller. Actually the -t option in that precise position does not give any effect... (challenge: can you tell me why?) but of course gives to the ls command some salty taste! :)

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nice -n0 ls | mpg321 -@- &

2011-07-10 11:50:46

User: kev

Functions: ls mpg321 nice

Tags: mpg321

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play all songs under current directory smoothly as background job

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vim txt.gz

2010-09-03 01:54:05

User: Aparicio

Functions: vim

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read txt or txt.gz files

Works at lest with .gz .bz2 .tar.gz .tar.bz2

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ssh-keygen -R hostname

2009-07-16 15:41:33

User: jritorto

Functions: ssh ssh-keygen

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Cute, but we already had this figured out when the Linux kids were still slurping down log-sized spliffs in the back of the microbus.

put down the joint and rtfm :)

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find . -type d -name '*[A-Z]*' -execdir bash -c '! test -f "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \; -execdir bash -c 'mv "$0" "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \;

2010-04-01 04:35:52

User: ashawley

Functions: bash find test

Tags: bash find mv rename tr

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recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)

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alias install='sudo apt-get install'

2011-10-27 19:53:01

User: haivu

Functions: alias

Tags: Ubuntu alias

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Shorthand to install package in Ubuntu

I put this line in my ~/.bashrc file (which I source via ~/.bash_profile). Now, when I need to install a package, I typed *install* instead of the longer version.

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lwp-dump http://www.boredomsoft.org/ip.php|grep Client

2010-10-09 06:19:14

User: Andrew

Functions: grep

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Get My Public IP Address

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

2010-06-03 21:48:54

User: seattlegaucho

Tags: bash Linux terminal fortune

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Get colorful fortunes

Get colorful fortunes dictated by an ASCII cow. For full enjoyment you'll need to have color setup enabled for your terminal.

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du -h <Directory>

2010-06-04 03:14:37

User: Vasudev

Functions: du

Tags: directory size,du

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calculate the total size of files in specified directory (in Megabytes)

Prints the size of Directory in human readable format like KB MB or GB. If you want to see size each files and directories inside the directory use -a option as shown in second output and if you want a total sum then add -c option :)

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