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  • Show all groups user is a member of and other useful info


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    net user USERNAME /domain
    shawn_abdushakur · 2014-01-02 20:22:46 7
  • my command for downloading delicious web links,

    just a alternative using a saved html file of all of my bookmarks. works well although it takes awhile.


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    wget -r --wait=5 --quota=5000m --tries=3 --directory-prefix=/home/erin/Documents/erins_webpages --limit-rate=20k --level=1 -k -p -erobots=off -np -N --exclude-domains=del.icio.us,doubleclick.net -F -i ./delicious-20090629.htm
    bbelt16ag · 2009-07-02 01:46:21 7
  • CPU architecture details

    It works in every linux box Show Sample Output


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    cat /proc/cpuinfo
    magicjohnson_ · 2010-09-24 09:27:58 3
  • OSX Terminal helper with tab completion, ssh tunneling, and now screen re-attach

    http://github.com/c3w/ash . a Ruby SSH helper script . reads a JSON config file to read host, FQDN, user, port, tunnel options . changes OSX Terminal profiles based on host 'type' USAGE: put 'ash' ruby script in your PATH modify and copy ashrc-dist to ~/.ashrc configure OSX Terminal profiles, such as "webserver", "development", etc run "ash myhostname" and away you go! v.2 will re-attach to a 'screen' named in your ~/.ashrc Show Sample Output


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    ash prod<tab>
    c3w · 2012-05-12 19:51:02 8
  • ls


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    ls
    yingkailiang · 2013-03-14 01:28:01 5
  • check your up to date delicious links.

    This commands queries the delicious api then runs the xml through xml2, grabs the urls cuts out the first two columns, passes through uniq to remove duplicates if any, and then goes into linkchecker who checks the links. the links go the blacklist in ~/.linkchecker/blacklist. please see the manual pages for further info peeps. I took me a few days to figure this one out. I how you enjoy it. Also don't run these api more then once a few seconds you can get banned by delicious see their site for info. ~updated for no recursive Show Sample Output


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    curl -k https://Username:Password@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?red=api | xml2| \grep '@href' | cut -d\= -f 2- | sort | uniq | linkchecker -r0 --stdin --complete -v -t 50 -F blacklist
    bbelt16ag · 2013-05-04 17:43:21 8
  • Find all files containing a word

    This is very similar to the first example except that it employs the 'exec' argument of the find command rather than piping the result to xargs. The second example is nice and tidy but different *NIXs may not have as capable a grep command.


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    find . -name "*.php" -exec grep -il searchphrase {} \;
    unixmonkey7797 · 2010-01-16 05:09:30 4
  • identify big file

    first 10 big file


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    du -s * | sort -nr | head
    chenge · 2010-05-13 12:21:22 4
  • Timelapse with ffmpeg (after symlinking pictures as per ffmpeg FAQ)


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    ffmpeg -r 12 -i img%03d.jpg -sameq -s hd720 -vcodec libx264 -crf 25 OUTPUT.MP4
    brainstorm · 2013-05-04 18:46:36 9
  • hardcode dnsserver, no more rewriting of etc/resolv.conf

    The while loop is an overkill, it would be simpler to prevent the file to be modified. That said, none of the proposed solutions are such: a real one would go to the source of the problem.


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    chkmod -w /etc/resolve.conf
    ntropia · 2018-05-14 16:25:47 166
  • Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

    Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.


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    find . -type f -exec grep -qi 'foo' {} \; -print0 | xargs -0 vim
    arcege · 2009-09-03 17:55:26 7
  • Pear install behind proxy

    Useful since "export http_proxy=blahblah:8080" doesn't seem to work with pear Show Sample Output


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    pear config-set http_proxy http://myusername:mypassword@corporateproxy:8080
    KoRoVaMiLK · 2010-05-13 14:44:03 30
  • know which version of the program is installed on your Debian and derivatives

    Output: Version 3.2-0 (for example if you type # aptitude show bash | grep Vers Depends on the language of your distribution, because the name of the word "Version" in other languages may be different.


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    aptitude show $PROGRAM | grep Vers
    aabilio · 2009-02-27 23:24:37 8
  • Get minimum, current, maximum possible resolution of Xorg


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    xrandr -q | grep -w Screen
    hemanth · 2010-02-14 15:38:49 3
  • split a postscript file

    splits a postscript file into multiple postscript files. for each page of the input file one output file will be generated. The files will be numbered for example 1_orig.ps 2_orig.ps ... The psselect commad is part of the psutils package


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    file=orig.ps; for i in $(seq `grep "Pages:" $file | sed 's/%%Pages: //g'`); do psselect $i $file $i\_$file; done
    damncool · 2010-09-24 19:44:32 4
  • A simple overview of memory usage refreshed at user designated intervals.

    This command shows a high level overview of system memory and usage refreshed in seconds. Change -n 10 to you desired refresh interval. Show Sample Output


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    watch -n 10 free -m
    Darkstar · 2014-01-04 10:10:15 12
  • Find the full path of an already running process

    Uses the pid to get the full path of the process. Useful when you do not which command got picked from the path Show Sample Output


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    readlink -f /proc/<pid>/cmdline
    naseer · 2009-05-26 10:09:03 23
  • Filenames ROT13

    This got a bit complicated, because I had to introduce an additional dot at the end that has to be removed again later.


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    for each in *; do file="$each."; name=${file%%.*}; suffix=${file#*.}; mv "$each" "$(echo $name | rot13)${suffix:+.}${suffix%.}"; done
    hfs · 2010-03-20 16:11:12 6
  • Sort files in $PWD by year embedded anywhere in filename


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    ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r
    ysangkok · 2014-01-04 20:50:12 10
  • display only tcp


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    netstat -4tnape
    gnuyoga · 2009-05-26 11:50:52 5
  • wget, tar xzvf, cd, ls

    Combines a few repetitive tasks when compiling source code. Especially useful when a hypen in a file-name breaks tab completion. 1.) wget source.tar.gz 2.) tar xzvf source.tar.gz 3.) cd source 4.) ls From there you can run ./configure, make and etc. Show Sample Output


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    wtzc () { wget "$@"; foo=`echo "$@" | sed 's:.*/::'`; tar xzvf $foo; blah=`echo $foo | sed 's:,*/::'`; bar=`echo $blah | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/' -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/'`; cd $bar; ls; }
    oshazard · 2010-01-17 11:25:47 3
  • Split a file into equal size chunks and archive to (e)mail account.

    This is just a little snippit to split a large file into smaller chunks (4mb in this example) and then send the chunks off to (e)mail for archival using mutt. I usually encrypt the file before splitting it using openssl: openssl des3 -salt -k <password> -in file.tgz -out file.tgz.des3 To restore, simply save attachments and rejoin them using: cat file.tgz.* > output_name.tgz and if encrypted, decrypt using: openssl des3 -d -salt -k <password> -in file.tgz.des3 -out file.tgz edit: (changed "g" to "e" for political correctness)


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    split -b4m file.tgz file.tgz. ; for i in file.tgz.*; do SUBJ="Backup Archive"; MSG="Archive File Attached"; echo $MSG | mutt -a $i -s $SUBJ YourEmail@(E)mail.com
    tboulay · 2010-03-20 16:49:19 8
  • Find Out My Linux Distribution Name and Version


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    if [ -x /etc/*-release ]; then cat /etc/*-release ; else cat /etc/*-version ; fi
    hugoeustaquio · 2011-06-22 14:09:24 3
  • Transfer files with rsync over ssh on a non-standard port.

    Transfer files with rsync over ssh on a non-standard port, showing a progress bar and resuming partial transfers.


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    rsync -P -e 'ssh -p PORT' SRC DEST
    vickio · 2011-10-13 08:59:07 4
  • Print environment information.

    Show Sample Output


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    perl -e 'print "$_=$ENV{$_}\n" for keys %ENV'
    sgikas · 2012-11-12 13:14:28 4
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change exif data in all jpeg's
this takes every jpg in the current directory and changes the exif data for manufactur and model. in my case i change it to LOMO LC-A because my scanner puts his data in there :]

Grep log between range of minutes
Returns logs between HH:M[Mx-My], for example, between 13:40 and 13:45.

escape any command aliases
e.g. if rm is aliased for 'rm -i', you can escape the alias by prepending a backslash: rm [file] # WILL prompt for confirmation per the alias \rm [file] # will NOT prompt for confirmation per the default behavior of the command

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BackTrack Repos
Add the BackTrack repositories to your Debian based GNU/Linux distribution. Thanks to http://it-john.com/home/technology/linux-technology/add-back-track-4-repo-to-ubuntu/

write the output of a command to /var/log/user.log... each line will contain $USER, making this easy to grep for.
This command is useful if you want to copy the output of a series of commands to a file, for example if you want to pastebin the output from 'uname -a', 'lspci -vvv' and 'lsmod' for video driver trouble-shooting on your favorite Linux forum. 'log' takes all the following arguments as a command to execute, with STDOUT sent to /var/log/user.log. The command is echoed to the log before it is executed. The advantages of using logger (as opposed to appending output from commands to a file) are 1) commands are always appended to the logs... you don't have to worry about clobbering your log file accidentally by using '>' rather than '>>' 2) logs are automatically cleaned up by logrotate. The following functions allow you to mark the start and end of a section of /var/log/user.log. $ startlog() { export LOGMARK=$(date +%Y.%m.%d_%H:%M:%S); echo "$LOGMARK.START" | logger -t $USER; } then $ endlog() { echo "$LOGMARK.END" | logger -t $USER; } printlog will print all lines between $LOGMARK.START and $LOGMARK.END, removing everything that is prepended to each line by logger. $ printlog() { sudo sed -n -e "/$LOGMARK.START/,/$LOGMARK.END/p" /var/log/user.log| sed "s/.*$USER: //"; } The following command should dump just about all the information that you could possibly want about your linux configuration into the clipboard. $ startlog; for cmd in 'uname -a' 'cat /etc/issue' 'dmesg' 'lsusb' 'lspci' 'sudo lshw' 'lsmod'; do log $cmd; done; endlog; printlog | xsel --clipboard This is ready for a trip to http://pastebin.com/, and you don't have to worry about leaving temporary files lying around cluttering up $HOME. Caveats: I'm sure that startlog, endlog, and printlog could use some cleanup and error checking... there are unchecked dependencies between printlog and endlog, as well as between endlog and startlog. It might be useful for 'log' to send stderr to logger as well.

FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space

create an screenshot, upload it to your server via scp and then open that screenshot in firefox
I often need to send screenshots to other people to explain settings and whatever. So I created this oneline which I use to create the screenshot with imagemagik, upload it via scp to my server and then the command opens an firefox tab with the screenshot. The screenshot can be a region or a window. You just have to replace the parts beginning with YOUR.

Print a list of all hardlinks in the working directory, recursively
libpurple likes to hardlink files repeatedly. To ignore libpurple, use sed: | sed '/\.\/\.purple/d'

Find the package that installed a command

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