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lynx -dump http://www.domain.com | grep http| awk '{print $2 }'
2010-09-03 23:46:32
User: metalx1000
Functions: awk grep
-2
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Get all links of a website
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firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote
2010-10-08 14:40:18
User: rovr138
Tags: profile firefox multiple
-2
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Simultaneously running different Firefox profiles

If you need to create a profile and are already running Firefox, you don't need to close it to do it. Also, if you don't know the exact name of the profile, this would allow you to pick from a list.

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tail -f /var/log/messages
2009-02-12 19:30:33
User: nicdev
Functions: tail
-2
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View new log messages in real time

Use this command to see logs update in real time

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echo "12345,12346" |sed -e's/ //'|tr "," "\n"| while read line; do echo -n $line" "; svn log -vr $line https://url/to/svn/repository/|grep "/"|head -1|cut -d"/" -f2; done
2009-04-15 15:21:20
User: psytek
Functions: cut echo grep head read sed tr
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Find the svn directory that a commit was made in. Usefull if you have many projects in one repository.
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current_dir=$(cd $(dirname $BASH_SOURCE);pwd)
2011-04-18 09:24:14
User: xeor
Functions: cd dirname
Tags: Process Management parameter expansion special parameters
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Find out the starting directory of a script

I think this is the cleanest way of getting the current working directory of a script. It also works on osx, Linux, and probably bsd as well..

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sudo lsof -iTCP:25
2013-11-20 08:26:37
User: netaxiz
Functions: sudo
Tags: Network open socket port open/close
-2
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Check if TCP port 25 is open
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ps -ef | grep APP | awk '/grep/!{print$2}' | xargs -i kill {}
2009-02-05 16:10:05
User: hooobs
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
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find and kill a pid for APP

Probably posted previously, I use this all the time to find and kill a process for "APP". Simply replace "APP" with the name of the process you're looking to kill.

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cd $OLDPWD
2012-04-16 21:18:27
User: khopesh
Functions: cd
Tags: cd
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change to the previous working directory

This is like `cd -` but doesn't echo the new directory name, which is preferable (to me) for an alias, e.g.

alias cdo="cd $OLDPWD"
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pkill -f foo
2009-02-05 16:12:53
User: archlich
-2
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kill all processes with name or argument

Be careful when issuing this command, it may kill unwanted processes!

To only search on the process name don't use the argument -f, pkill foo

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for x in *.dat;do sort -k 3 $x >tmp && mv -f tmp $x;done
2010-07-07 07:57:37
User: rajarshi
Functions: mv sort
Tags: sorting
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Sort all the ".dat" files in current directory by column 3 (change it accordingly), and replace the sorted one with original.

We normally get tasks in which one has to sort a data file according to some column. For a single file say foo, we would use

sort -k 3 foo >tmp && tmp foo

The for loop is useful when we have to do it on a number of files.

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yes 1 | fdupes -rd $folder
2011-06-02 18:15:24
User: torrid
Functions: yes
Tags: deduplicate
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delete duplicate files

This command deletes all but the first occurrence of a duplicate file in one or more folders.

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nautilus "$pwd"
2013-02-15 17:25:10
User: breakersall
Tags: Ubuntu nautilus
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Opens the ubuntu file browser from current directory.
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awk '{print(substr($0,1,5))}' file
2009-10-05 18:58:49
User: servermanaged
Functions: awk
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Laminate a file

Consider this file :

laminate

this

file

with awk

hello to

commandlinefu

I can use awk substring to laminate words :

lamin

this

file

with

hello

comma

Similar to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2000/laminate-files-line-by-line

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cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | sort
2010-07-07 12:12:02
User: dog
Functions: cut
Tags: sort sed cut sorting users
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Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
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lynx -dump http://domaim.com | egrep -o -e 'http://[/0-9a-z.]+html'
2010-09-04 17:49:12
User: yababay
Functions: egrep
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Get all links of a website
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netstat -lntp
2013-11-20 10:02:10
User: fr00tyl00p
Functions: netstat
Tags: Network open socket port open/close
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Check if TCP port 25 is open
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awk 'BEGIN { srand(); print rand() }'
2010-08-07 14:33:12
User: dennisw
Functions: awk
Tags: random number
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Random Decimal in the interval 0 &#8804; n < 1 and 2d6 dice roll

2d6 dice:

awk 'BEGIN { srand(); a=int(rand()*6)+1; b=int(rand()*6)+1; print a " + " b " = " a+b }'

3 + 6 = 9

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ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -alh
2010-09-04 20:38:28
User: John_W
Functions: ls
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Show the UUID of a filesystem or partition

Doesn't need to be run as root.

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cat `ls -r /sys/class/net/*/address` | sort -u
2011-06-02 23:16:37
User: jaimerosario
Functions: cat sort
Tags: sort mac
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List your MACs address
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script -t 2> timing.txt -a session.txt ; Run some commands here; exit; scriptreplay timing.txt session.txt
2012-12-12 10:32:28
User: sandeepvreddy
Functions: script
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Linux record terminal session and replay
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type -a python
2011-03-10 23:48:37
User: evandrix
Functions: type
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Show all "python" executables
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f -f -e mplayer movie
2011-12-09 02:58:41
User: clvv
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Open frequnet/recent file mathcing "movie" with mplayer using f

This is one use case of `f`. You need to install `f`(https://github.com/clvv/f) for this to work. With f, you can access any file by only typing some of its name regardless of where you are. f is inspired by autojump and z.

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ifconfig -a | awk '/Bcast/{print $2}' | cut -c 5-19
2013-04-10 14:18:25
User: BigCow
Functions: awk cut ifconfig
Tags: Network IP network card
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Get the IP address of a machine. Just the IP, no junk.
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tar -pczf archive_name.tar.gz /path/to/dir/or/file
2009-07-17 19:53:02
User: ryuslash
Functions: tar
Tags: bash tar gzip
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create tar.gz archive

Create a single tar.gz archive

I know it's a very basic one, but it's one I keep forgetting.

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alias emacs='vim'
2012-12-12 23:47:47
User: erikw
Functions: alias
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Improve Emacs
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