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Print line numbers

Print out contents of file with line numbers. This version will print a number for every line, and separates the numbering from the line with a tab. Show Sample Output
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```
1     This is line 1.
2     This is line 2.
3
4     This is line 4.
```
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sed = <file> | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/'

jgc · 2009-12-11 14:39:14 3
Update twitter with curl
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curl -u username:password -d status="blah blah blah" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

sha · 2010-06-17 03:10:42 14
Print just line 4 from a textfile

d --> delete !d ---> delete others
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sed '4!d'

totti · 2011-09-05 17:54:57 3
Batch Convert SVG to PNG
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for i in *; do inkscape $i --export-png=`echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done

o0110o · 2014-03-24 12:15:58 9
create an mp3 with variable bitrate

The quality ranges between 0 to 9, with the smaller number indicates a higher quality file but bigger too.
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lame -h -V 6 track9.wav track9.mp3

dcabanis · 2009-05-23 23:27:20 4
How far is Mac OS X 10.6 from 64-bit?

Next time you see a mac fanboy bragging about 64-bitness of 10.6 give him this so he might sh? Show Sample Output
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```
   127	Mach-O 64-bit kext bundle x86_64
   314	Mach-O object i386
```
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file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* |grep -i x86_64 |nl |tail -1 |cut -f1 -f3 && file /System/Library/Extensions/*.kext/Contents/MacOS/* |grep -v x86_64 |nl |tail -1 |cut -f1 -f3

commandlinefu · 2009-09-03 14:28:02 6
kill a windows process
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wmic process where (caption="notepad.exe") call terminate

Thomas · 2010-08-20 09:53:51 4

Used it on daily basis, not sure if it's any better than the OPs version, tho' One advantage is - you can replace 'bash' at the end of the line with eg. cat - to check if the generated command is OK. Show Sample Output

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mailq |awk '/MAILER-DAEMON/{gsub("*","");printf("postsuper -d %s\n",$1)}'|bash

unefunge · 2010-11-24 11:42:54 19

Print just line 4 from a textfile

Perl version - just for completeness sake ;)
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perl -ne '$. == 4 && print && exit'

bashrc · 2011-09-05 21:52:16 3
Add strikethrough to text

Uses Unicode combining characters to produce strikethrough effect. Since commandlinefu doesn't display Unicode properly, you will need to replace the dash in the code above with the Unicode long stroke overlay (U+0336).
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echo text | sed "s/$.$/\1-/g"

ppaschka · 2012-03-23 17:18:54 3
rsync from one remote to another remote, only local computer has an open ssh key

rsync by itself doesn't support copying between two remote hosts, but if you use sshfs you can pretend one of them is local. If you have a passphrase-less ssh-key, you can even put this script into a cron job. A faster alternative is to run ssh-keygen on remote1 and put the pubkey into remote2:~/.ssh/authorized_keys, running rsync on remote1 (or vice versa), but the problem with that is that now a hacker on remote1 can access remote2 at any time. The above method ensures your local computer stays the weak link. Show Sample Output
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```
sending incremental file list
stuff/
stuff/file1.txt
```
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mkdir r1 && sshfs remote1:/home/user r1 && rsync r1/stuff remote2:~/backups/

unhammer · 2013-01-11 14:12:22 6
Sequential revision numbers in Git

Git uses secure hash sums for its revision numbers. I'm sure this is fine and dandy for ultra-secure computing, but it's less than optimal for humans. Thus, this will give you sequential revision numbers in Git all the way from the first commit.
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git rev-list --reverse HEAD | awk "/$(git log -n 1 --pretty="format:%h")/ {print NR}"

atoponce · 2011-11-15 21:49:32 4
Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP

Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP Show Sample Output
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```
     71 , Poland
    116 , France
    300 , United States
   2426 , Spain
```
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cat /var/log/nginx/access.log | grep -oe '^[0-9.]\+' | perl -ne 'system("geoiplookup $_")' | grep -v found | grep -oe ', [A-Za-z ]\+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

theist · 2012-05-08 13:28:25 3
find and kill a zombie process

You cannot kill zombies, as they are already dead. But if you have too many zombies then kill parent process or restart service. You can kill zombie process using PID obtained from the above command. For example kill zombie proces having PID 4104: # kill -9 4104 Please note that kill -9 does not guarantee to kill a zombie process.
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kill -HUP `ps -A -ostat,ppid,pid,cmd | grep -e '^[Zz]' | awk '{print $2}'`

6peng · 2009-02-06 02:42:14 15
List of commands you use most often

This alternative cleans HISTTIMEFORMAT environment variable and calls gnuplot just after /tmp/cmds is closed, to avoid some errors.
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HISTTIMEFORMAT='' history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head > /tmp/cmds ; gnuplot -persist <<<'plot "/tmp/cmds" using 1:xticlabels(2) with boxes'

narcelio · 2010-06-17 17:38:16 3
validate xml in a shell script.

For debian likes, that's in python-xml package.
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xmlproc_parse.python-xml &>/dev/null <FILE> || exit 1

sputnick · 2009-12-11 17:30:03 5
a tail function for automatic smart output

tail() { thbin="/usr/bin/tail"; if [ "${1:0:1}" != "-" ]; then fc=$(($#==0?1:$#)); lpf="$((($LINES - 3 - 2 * $fc) / $fc))"; lpf="$(($lpf<1?2:$lpf))"; [ $fc -eq 1 ] && $thbin -n $lpf "$@" | /usr/bin/fold -w $COLUMNS | $thbin -n $lpf || $thbin -n $lpf "$@"; else $thbin "$@"; fi; unset lpf fc thbin; } This is a function that implements an improved version of tail. It tries to limit the number of lines so that the screen is filled completely. It works with pipes, single and multiple files. If you add different options to tail, they will overwrite the settings from the function. It doesn't work very well when too many files (with wrapped lines) are specified. Its optimised for my three-line prompt. It also works for head. Just s/tail/head/g Don't set 'thbin="tail"', this might lead to a forkbomb.
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tail() { thbin="/usr/bin/tail"; if [ "${1:0:1}" != "-" ]; then fc=$(($#==0?1:$#)); lpf="$((($LINES - 3 - 2 * $fc) / $fc))"; lpf="$(($lpf<1?2:$lpf))"; [ $fc -eq 1 ] && $thbin -n $lpf "$@" | /usr/bin/fold -w $COLUMNS | $thbin -n $lpf || $thbin -n $lpf...

fpunktk · 2012-03-23 19:00:30 3
OS-X... create a quick look from the command line

Where "docname" is the document you want OS-X to image... file.txt, file.pdf, file.mov, etc Show Sample Output
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```
Outputs an image
```
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qlmanage -p "yourfilename"

vaporub · 2009-02-16 07:15:03 68
Playback music in VLC without the GUI interface
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cvlc <somemusic.mp3>

dynaguy · 2011-03-25 20:03:19 3
CPU sucker

Use one CPU core entirely.
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while :; do :; done

livibetter · 2012-03-23 19:06:56 3
Google Translate

Change lang from ru to something else. Curl version - Mac OS etc, any system w/o wget. Show Sample Output
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translate some text
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translate () {lang="ru"; text=`echo $* | sed 's/ /%20/g'`; curl -s -A "Mozilla/5.0" "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=$text&sl=auto&tl=$lang" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1}

2b · 2014-07-10 18:26:34 9
Generrate Cryptographically Secure RANDOM PASSWORD

Explination: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2257441/random-string-generation-with-upper-case-letters-and-digits/23728630#23728630 Why 16 Characters: https://www.wired.com/story/7-steps-to-password-perfection/ Show Sample Output
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a7Bt4WGSz8hjJWIP
```
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python -c "import string; import random;print(''.join(random.SystemRandom().choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits + string.ascii_lowercase) for _ in range(16)))"

rootduck · 2019-06-14 17:35:12 39
Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

needs no GNU tools, as far as I see it
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find . -exec grep foobar /dev/null {} \; | awk -F: '{print $1}' | xargs vi

verboEse · 2009-09-03 16:02:18 3
convert mp3 to ogg

why would you want to convert mp3's to ogg? 1 reason is because ardour doesn't support mp3 files because of legal issues. this is really the only reason you would do this, unless you have really bad hearing and also want smaller file sizes, because converting from one lossy format to another isn't a good idea. Show Sample Output
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```
$ mp32ogg *.mp3
mp32ogg v0.11
(c) 2000-2002 Nathan Walp
Released without warranty under the terms of the Artistic License

Converting echoed_-_Mystic_Beats.mp3 to OGG...
echoed_-_Mystic_Beats.ogg done!
Converting stateshirt_-_Chemma_Chi_-_vocals.mp3 to OGG...
stateshirt_-_Chemma_Chi_-_vocals.ogg done!
```
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mp32ogg file.mp3

nickleus · 2009-11-16 20:22:48 5
Print a row of characters across the terminal

For BSD-based systems, including OS X, that don't have seq. This version provides a default using tput in case $COLUMNS is not set: jot -b '#' -s '' ${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)} Show Sample Output
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################################################################################
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jot -b '#' -s '' $COLUMNS

dennisw · 2010-04-13 22:03:39 6
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Set the hardware date and time based on the system date

Count number of hits per IP address in last 2000 lines of apache logs and print the IP and hits if hits > 20

Countdown Clock

The biggest advantage over atoponce's nifty original is not killing the scrollback. Written assuming bash, but shouldn't be terribly difficult to port to other shells. S should be multiple spaces, but I can't get commandlinefu to save/show them properly, any help?

convert uppercase files to lowercase files

Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

Mount important virtual system directories under chroot'ed directory

The command is useful when, e.g., booting an existing system with a rescue or installation CD where you need to chroot into the hard-disk and be able to do stuff which accesses kernel info (e.g. when installing Ubuntu desktop with LVM2 you need to mount and chroot the hard disk from a shell window in order to install packages and run initramfs inside chroot). The command assumes that /mnt/xxx is where the chroot'ed environment's root file system on the hard disk is mounted.

take a look to command before action

add |sh when you agree the list, I often use that method to prevent typos in dangerous or long operations

Find the package that installed a command

Realy remove file from your drive

This command remove a file from your filesystem like the normal rm command but instead of deleting only the inode information this also delete the data that was stored on blocks /!\ warning this may be long for large files

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