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If the problem is an aliased synonym for a command, you can still execute the original command by pre-pending it with a reverse-slash '\'. This works at least in Bash, but I guess the aliasing system refers definitely to Bash (and not only).
0\cp something toSomeWhereElse -
just a leaner, smaller version. Love the original idea!
0kill -9 `ps xawo state=,pid=|sed -n 's/Z //p'` -
Sorts blank line delimited paragraphs. '-i' -- case insensitivity option -- removes redundant paragraphs in a case insensitive way, and then sorts in a case insensitive way. If you search CommandLineFu with multiple anded terms searches, redundancy can ensue. This sorts the retrieved text (among other kinds of data), and removes the redundancy. Show Sample Output
0gawk 'BEGIN {RS="\n\n"; if (ARGV[1]=="-i")IGNORECASE=1;ARGC=1}{if (IGNORECASE)Text[tolower($0)]=$0;else Text[$0]=$0 };END {N=asort(Text);for(i=1;i<=N;i++)printf "%s\n\n",Text[i]}' -i<Test.txt -
Often you want to nmap a list of IPs using the -iL flag. This is an easy way to generate a list of IPs that are online in a specific subnet or IP range (192.168.1.100-110). Show Sample Output
0nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 | awk "/^Host/"'{ print $3 }' |nawk -F'[()]' '{print $2}' -
Useful when specifying char encoding for Python and/or your editor
0sed -i -e '1i \# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' yourfile.py -
0ip a s eth0 | awk '/inet / {print $2} | sed -e 's/\/..//g'
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0mplayer $(find . -iname '*.avi' | shuf -n1)
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Very usefull script to use when uoy must print all files from a directory. Show Sample Output
0lp -dhp -P1-1 -o media=a4 * -
Strips the audio track from a webm video. Use this in combination with clive or youtube-dl.
0for file in "$@"; do name=$(basename "$file" .webm) echo ffmpeg -i $file -vn -c:a copy $name.ogg ffmpeg -i "$file" -vn -c:a copy "$name.ogg" done -
git fetch --all git reset --hard origin/staging
0git reset --hard origin/master -
0find . -size +10M -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1
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works for Powershot SD780 IS
0jhead -autorot -ta+1 * -
ffprobe doesn't throw an error and was actually made to do exactly that. Usually ffprobe is located in the same folder as ffmpeg. https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html#Description
0ffprobe -i filename.flv -
man NetworkManager.conf ... none: NetworkManager will not modify resolv.conf. This implies rc-manager unmanaged Show Sample Output
0f="/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf"; if ! grep ^dns $f > /dev/null; then sudo sed -i.bkp '/\[main\]/a dns=none' $f; fi -
0rpm -ivh 'http://www.website.com/path/to/desired_software_package.rpm'
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0ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep -o EFI[0-9]. && system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType |grep 64
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This will show where your Perl installation is looking for modules.
0perl -le 'print join $/, @INC' -
Fully recharge your computer battery and start this script. It will create or clean the file named battery.txt, print a start on it and every minute it will append a time stamp to it. Batteries last few hours, and each hour will have 60 lines of time stamping. Really good for assuring the system was tested in real life with no surprises. The last time stamp inside the battery.txt file is of interest. It is the time the computer went off, as the battery was dead! Turn on your computer after that, on AC power of course, and open battery.txt. Read the first and last time stamps and now you really know if you can trust your computer sensors. If you want a simple line of text inside the battery.txt file, use this: watch -n 60 'date > battery.txt' The time of death will be printed inside Show Sample Output
0echo start > battery.txt; watch -n 60 'date >> battery.txt' -
0purple-remote "setstatus?status=Available&message=Checking libpurple"
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0xmms2 info $(xmms2 mlib search '<query>' | sed -ne 's/^00*\([1-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/p') | awk -F' = ' '$1~/ url$/{print$2}'
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Using -f treats the process name as a pattern so you don't have to include the full path in the command. Thus 'pkill -f firefox' works, even with iceweasel.
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First use ls -i to list files and directories with their inode number Then if you want to change to one of the directories, replace inode_no with its inode then execute the command Show Sample Output
0cd $(find -inum inode_no) -
0sed -i '$a\FOOBAR' *
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0pdftk file.pdf dump_data output | grep -i Num
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0ip a s eth0 | awk -F"[/ ]+" '/inet / {print $3}'
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