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Watch a TiVo File On Your Computer

Watch a TiVo file on your computer.
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curl -s -c /tmp/cookie -k -u tivo:$MAK --digest http://$tivo/download/$filename | tivodecode -m $MAK -- - | mplayer - -cache-min 50 -cache 65536

matthewbauer · 2009-11-11 23:32:23 3
get disk usage sum for files of type

print sum of disk usage for filetype within current dir and subdirs Show Sample Output
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```
nathan@juttenheim:~$ find . -name '*.xml' -type f -print | xargs du -ch
0       ./ma.xml
0       ./derp.xml
482M    ./artbeads.xml
482M    total
```
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find . -name '*.xml' -type f -print | xargs du -ch

nathwill · 2011-03-22 00:47:42 5
Specify a file name that starts with hyphen, e.g. "-i"

If you just try rm -i, the file name will be interpreted as a command line switch. Many commands let you use a double hyphen '--' to say 'No more switches, the rest are file names'. Incidentally having a file named '-i' in a directory where you use rm * will cause rm to act as if you specified '-i' on the command line. vim -- -v touch -- -t cat -- -c
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rm -- -i

merlinblack · 2011-07-26 04:00:32 3
List svn commits by user for a date range

My script lists all users & the number of commits they made in the period, sorted alphabetically. To sort by number of commits, append a '|sort' to the end of the command. The script depends on the output format of svn log - original command didn't work for me because the string 'user' was not appearing in my output
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svn log -r{2011-08-01}:HEAD|awk '$14 ~/line/ {print $3}'|sort|uniq -c

sangnoir · 2011-09-01 07:58:54 3
Get your external ip right into your xclipboard
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w3m mon-ip.com -dump|grep -Eo "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}"|uniq|xclip -selection clipboard

anyname · 2012-02-06 14:42:03 3
Show crontabs for all users

added echo "### Crontabs for $user ####"; to make clear whose crontab is listed.
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for user in $(getent passwd|cut -f1 -d:); do echo "### Crontabs for $user ####"; crontab -u $user -l; done

harpo · 2012-07-11 13:06:17 3
urldecoding
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perl -M URI::Escape -lne 'print uri_unescape($_)'

johnlane · 2014-07-01 10:45:33 7
Get your external IP address
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curl whatismyip.akamai.com && echo

donmez · 2015-02-07 17:32:02 8
displays the uptime in a friendly way

useful for human readable reports Show Sample Output
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murgatroyd restarted 4 days ago
```
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echo "$HOSTNAME restarted $(uptime | tr , ' ' | awk '{print $3" "$4}') ago"

forestb · 2015-11-20 19:25:15 10
Convert JSON to YAML

Requires installing json2yaml via npm: npm install -g json2yaml (can also pipe from stdin) Ref: https://www.npmjs.com/package/json2yaml
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json2yaml ./example.json > ./example.yml

quaddo · 2017-06-13 22:25:08 19
Get bucket policy from a s3 buckets list
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for i in (aws s3api list-buckets --query "Buckets[].Name" | cut -d"," -f1 | grep -vE "\[|\]"); echo $i ; aws s3api get-bucket-policy --bucket (echo $i | xargs); end

tuannvm · 2017-07-19 15:56:54 19
Disable Gradle daemon

Disabling Gradle daemon can sometimes improve build reliability.
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echo "org.gradle.daemon=false" >> ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

pkozelka · 2018-10-25 07:04:20 447
Identifies the file types in a directory and adds or replaces their file extensions.

It tries to identify the file types in a directory and adds or replaces them with their appropriate extensions. Please, update the "file" tool before use it (last version: 5.37): https://github.com/file/file
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find "$(realpath .)" -type f -exec bash -c 'p="{}"; b="${p##*/}"; e=${b#"${b%.*}"}; e2=$(file -b -F="" --extension "$p"| awk -F/ '\''$1~/^\w+$/ {print $1} '\''); if [ "$e" != ".$e2" ] && [ ! -z $e2 ]; then mv "$p" "${p%$b}${b%$e}.$e2"; fi;' \;

mikhail · 2019-05-18 01:56:25 40
Generate secure password to userwith chpasswd
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echo "encryptedpassword"|openssl passwd -1 -stdin

chmouel · 2009-03-15 17:06:50 6
Get the IP of the host your coming from when logged in remotely

host -i `echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -f 1 -d \ ` | sed 's/.* domain name pointer $.*$\./\1/' to reverse lookup and get the hostname.
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echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -f 1 -d ' '

infinull · 2011-01-11 10:20:45 4
File size
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stat -c "%s" <file>

makidoko · 2011-11-12 18:34:07 3

couldn't stand previous unsortability of at jobs list Show Sample Output

atq |sort -k 6n -k 3M -k 4n -k 5 -k 7 -k 1

klepsydra · 2012-05-03 23:15:08 6

Purge all broken packages on ubuntu
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aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep ^rc|awk '{ print $2 }')

velvetzhero · 2013-01-09 12:29:56 4
Copy canonical path of file 'foo' in the clipboard

'readlink -fn' gets canonical path of the file/directory without newline at the end; 'xsel -ib' copies pipelined string from STDIO to system clipboard (ready to be pasted with CTRL+V). Show Sample Output
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```
< No output if successful. >
```
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readlink -fn foo | xsel -ib

zplesivcak · 2013-03-09 14:15:31 4
SSH/wmic to remotely kill a process on a windows box

Tested on Windows 8 w/SSH, Cygwin - it can be tricky to quote if you dont use the $(..) syntax to echo it back out Show Sample Output
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```
Deleting instance \\YOUR-PC\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_Process.Handle="4824"
Instance deletion successful.
```
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ssh <user>@<ip address> $(echo wmic process where \"name like \'%<process to kill>%\'\" delete)

adanisch · 2014-07-02 04:41:05 6
Redirect output to a write-protected file with sudo but without sh -c, using tee.

Use tee -a to append.
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command foo bar | sudo tee /etc/write-protected > /dev/null

adeverteuil · 2015-02-08 03:58:35 9
Efficiently print a line deep in a huge log file

Get two different lines like this: sed -n '1000000p;2000000{p;q;}' < massive-log-file.log See also: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6043/print-just-line-4-from-a-textfile
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sed -n '1000000{p;q;}' < massive-log-file.log

bariumbitmap · 2015-11-20 19:43:41 28
FSTAB Ubuntu mount NFS Share
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192.168.1.7:/mnt/tank/media/music /home/user/music nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0

trueeasy · 2018-10-26 07:59:19 567
Make a pipe organ sound using XMMS and Python

You can get XMMS from here if it's not in your repositories: http://www.xmms.org/
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xmms `python -c "print \"tone://\" + \";\".join([str(22*(2**x)) for x in range(9)])"`

int19h · 2009-02-16 01:12:34 40
Will email user@example.com when all Rsync processes have finished.

This will email user@example.com a message with the body: "rsync done" when there are no processes of rsync running. This can be changed for other uses by changing $(pgrep rsync) to something else, and echo "rsync done" | mailx user@example.com to another command.
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$(while [ ! -z "$(pgrep rsync)" ]; do echo; done; echo "rsync done" | mailx user@example.com) > /dev/null &

matthewbauer · 2009-08-14 19:46:59 4
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FizzBuzz in one line of Bash

The (in)famous "FizzBuzz" programming challenge, answered in a single line of Bash code. The "|column" part at the end merely formats the output a bit, so if "column" is not installed on your machine you can simply omit that part. Without "|column", the solution only uses 75 characters. The version below is expanded to multiple lines, with comments added. for i in {1..100} # Use i to loop from "1" to "100", inclusive. do ((i % 3)) && # If i is not divisible by 3... x= || # ...blank out x (yes, "x= " does that). Otherwise,... x=Fizz # ...set x to the string "Fizz". ((i % 5)) || # If i is not divisible by 5, skip (there's no "&&")... x+=Buzz # ...Otherwise, append (not set) the string "Buzz" to x. echo ${x:-$i} # Print x unless it is blanked out. Otherwise, print i. done | column # Wrap output into columns (not part of the test).

Prints the latest modified files in a directory tree recursively

Sorts by latest modified files by looking to current directory and all subdirectories

Reset hosed terminal,

stty sane resets the tty to basic usable function. The ^J is a newline -- sometimes CR/LF interpretation is broken so use the ^J explicitly.

Project your desktop using xrandr

HDMI-1 is the interface in the example, which can be obtained just by typing xrandr and surfing through the output. There are a hell lot of configurations that can be done but I prefer auto because it works in most cases. $ Lifesaver

while using lxde and being blinded by your laptop screen, you can type:

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Recompress all text files in a subdirectory with lzma

This will deal nicely with filenames containing newlines and will run one lzma process per CPU core. It requires GNU Parallel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ

Force logout after 24 hours idle

Shell timeout variables (TMOUT) can be very liberal about what is classified as 'activity', like having an editor open. This command string will terminate the login shell for an user with more than a day's idle time.

Show a script or config file without comments or blank lines

Easy way to scroll up und down to change to one of n last visited directories.

This alias is meant to append n (here is n=10) most recently used cd commands to the bottom of history file. This way you can easily change to one of previous visited directories simply by hitting 1-10 times arrow up key. Hint: You can make more aliases implying the same rule for any set of frequently used long and complex commands like: mkisof, rdesktop, gpg...

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