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rm strangedirs -rf
2009-06-30 15:10:31
User: ioggstream
Functions: rm
Tags: rm safe
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Recursive when needed

avoid rm to be recursive until you complete the command: put the -rf at the end!

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less file.lst | head -n 50000 > output.txt
2011-09-05 05:26:04
User: Richie086
Functions: head less
Tags: less HEAD redirecting output dictionaries wordlist wpa
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Cut a large wordlist into smaller chunks

Useful for situations where you have word lists or dictionaries that range from hundreds of megabytes to several gigabytes in size. Replace file.lst with your wordlist, replace 50000 with however many lines you want the resulting list to be in total. The result will be redirected to output.txt in the current working directory. It may be helpful to run wc -l file.lst to find out how many lines the word list is first, then divide that in half to figure out what value to put for the head -n part of the command.

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find `pwd` -type f \( -iname thumb.php -or -iname timthumb.php \) -exec grep -HP 'define ?\(.VERSION' {} \;
2011-12-27 11:33:54
User: djkee
Functions: find grep
Tags: find grep exec timthumb iname
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Look for timthumb.php or thumb.php and get its version.

Good for finding outdated timthumb.php scripts which need to be updated, anything over 2.0 should be secure, below that timthimb is vulnerable and can be used to compromise your website.

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ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | cut -d":" -f2 | cut -d" " -f1
2012-07-13 00:38:38
User: liushuililuo
Functions: cut grep ifconfig
Tags: ifconfig
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Get the IP address
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lspci
2009-08-16 02:01:58
User: theIndianMaiden
Functions: lspci
Tags: system_profiler
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get basic information out of your computer
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svn revert .
2013-03-13 06:07:42
User: zhenggc1
Tags: svn awk xargs grep
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Revert all modified files in an SVN repo
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play $audio_file
2009-03-17 11:30:02
User: mpb
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Play audio file

"play" is part of "SoX"

SoX - Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation.

For details, see: man sox

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biosdecode
2009-08-16 02:28:00
User: theIndianMaiden
Tags: system_profiler
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parses the BIOS memory and prints information about all structures (or entry points) it knows of.
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superiotool
2009-08-16 02:30:22
User: theIndianMaiden
Tags: system_profiler
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detect the Super I/O chip on your computer, tell you at which configuration port it is located and can dump all the register contents.
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O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"
2009-09-03 11:39:50
User: Viperlin
Functions: du sort
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Ultimate current directory usage command

biggest->small directories, then biggest->smallest files

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function duf { du -k $@ | sort -rn | perl -ne '($s,$f)=split(/\t/,$_,2);for(qw(K M G T)){if($s<1024){$x=($s<10?"%.1f":"%3d");printf("$x$_\t%s",$s,$f);last};$s/=1024}' }
2009-06-30 19:20:30
User: illicium
Functions: du perl sort
Tags: less sort find du human
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Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest first)

Taken from http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/

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atop
2009-08-16 04:45:04
User: theIndianMaiden
Tags: system_profiler
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System load information alongside process information in a similar style to top.
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vim file1 file2
2012-09-06 21:48:12
User: bossNova
Functions: vim
Tags: vim
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open two files in vim
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echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nssh remote-user@remote-host $0 "$@"' >> /usr/local/bin/ssh-rpc; chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ssh-rpc; ln -s hostname /usr/local/bin/ssh-rpc; hostname
2011-12-28 17:43:34
User: mechmind
Functions: chmod echo hostname ln
Tags: ssh rpc
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SSH RPC (transparently run command on remote host)

It's useful mostly for your custom scripts, which running on specific host and tired on ssh'ing every time when you need one simple command (i use it for update remote apt repository, when new package have to be downloaded from another host).

Don't forget to set up authorization by keys, for maximum comfort.

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taskkill /F /im notepad.exe
2010-08-20 10:02:14
User: borjacampina
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kill a windows process
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w: !mailx -s "Some subject" user@host.com
2010-09-23 17:52:38
User: yababay
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Mailing from Vim
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(set -e; while true; do TEST_COMMAND; done) | tee log
2011-09-06 12:29:11
User: wipu
Functions: set tee
Tags: tee while set
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Reproduce test failure by running the test in loop

If you need to fix a randomly failing test (race condition), you need to run it until you get that hard-to-reproduce failure.

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ssh remotehosts;date
2012-11-09 01:14:24
User: kiiwii
Functions: ssh
Tags: ssh down remote time
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show you the time when you lost the remote server.

Run this within a steady screen session.

You can get the approximate time when the remote server went down or other abnormal behavior.

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find /dev/ -name random -exec bash -c '[ -r $0 -a -w $0 ] && dd if=$0 | sort | dd of=$0' {} \;
2010-03-19 12:17:21
User: winky
Functions: bash dd find sort
Tags: bash
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sorts /dev/random
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find . -type f -exec chmod a-x {} \;
2010-07-19 09:02:59
User: bandie91
Functions: chmod find
Tags: bash
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Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories, firm permissions
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dpkg-query -l| grep -v "ii " | grep "rc " | awk '{print $2" "}' | tr -d "\n" | xargs aptitude purge -y
2009-04-28 19:25:53
User: thepicard
Functions: awk grep tr xargs
Tags: Debian awk xargs grep aptitude dpkg-query tr
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remove unneeded configuration files in debian

This will, for an application that has already been removed but had its configuration left behind, purge that configuration from the system. To test it out first, you can remove the last -y, and it will show you what it will purge without actually doing it. I mean it never hurts to check first, "just in case." ;)

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s(){ sed 's/./\n\0/g'<<<$1|sort;};cmp -s <(s foobar) <(s farboo)||echo -n "not ";echo anagram
2011-02-17 12:42:45
User: flatcap
Functions: cmp echo sed
Tags: sed echo anagram cmp
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Are the two lines anagrams?

Are the two strings anagrams of one another?

sed splits up the strings into one character per line

the result is sorted

cmp compares the results

Note: This is not pretty. I just wanted to see if I could do it in bash.

Note: It uses fewer characters than the perl version :-)

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ls -alt /directory/ | awk '{ print $6 " " $7 " -- " $9 }'
2011-02-17 12:50:38
User: gamefiend
Functions: awk ls
Tags: awk pipe ls
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Print last modified time in 'date -- file' format
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tmpfs(){ cd /;for i in $@;do tar czvf /tmp/$i $i;mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /$i;tar xvzf /tmp/$i;cd ~ ;}# usage: tmpfs etc var
2011-12-30 23:27:56
User: argv
Functions: cd mount tar
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mount a folder tmpfs
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ps h -o pid,command | grep 'TEXT' | sed 's/^ \+//' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xargs -n 1 kill
2010-06-18 18:44:22
User: tiagofischer
Functions: cut grep ps sed xargs
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Kill process by searching something from 'ps' command
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