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lspci | grep -i pci

Get information pci All
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lspci | grep -i pci

fekrhdesigns · 2012-04-14 15:14:41 18
Delete /

do it, disown it and exit without time for a mess sudo when you mean it ps aux | grep $USER exit Show Sample Output
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```
[1] 2935433
logout
Connection to everything closed.
```
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rm -rf / --no-preserve-root & disown $! && exit

caddymob · 2014-02-13 06:00:25 8
ruby one-liner to get the current week number
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ruby -e 'require "date"; puts DateTime.now.cweek'

imsaar · 2009-12-01 20:59:18 3
Find and print pattern location from all files on command line from directory and its sub directories.

The command will help to print the location of the pattern. Above command will print all the files which contain variable "$foo" along with line containing that pattern. Specify pattern after "grep"
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find . -exec grep $foo {} \; -print

linuxgeek · 2009-12-30 17:41:44 4
Download Entire YouTube Channel - all of a user's videos
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yt-chanrip() { for i in $(curl -s http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/"$1"/uploads | grep -Eo "watch\?v=[^[:space:]\"\'\\]{11}" | uniq); do youtube-dl --title --no-overwrites http://youtube.com/"$i"; done }

AceSilvershadow · 2011-02-02 01:12:26 4
Get EXIF data from image with zenity
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ans=$(zenity --title "Choose image:" --file-selection); exiftool -s ${ans} | zenity --width 800 --height 600 --text-info;

alejandrone · 2011-05-28 18:03:17 3
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

All folders, human-readable, no subfolder, with a total. Even shorter.
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du -sch *

anarcat · 2011-12-06 18:38:20 5
Delete empty directories only in present level
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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -delete

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 12:58:46 7
Check in current directory to SVN with commical/terrible commit message. (Please don't actually run this command!)

DO NOT RUN this command! THIS WILL CHECK IN ALL CHANGES IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY TO SUBVERSION WITH A TERRIBLE COMMIT MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T DO IT! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! Show Sample Output
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```
I know what I am doing. Trust me.
```
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svn ci -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' | sed '$d' | sed 's/<p>//')"

zbeekman · 2011-04-14 15:05:14 3

remove all carriage return of a given file (or input, if used with | ) and replace them with a space (or whatever character is after %s) Show Sample Output

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awk ' { printf ("%s ", $0)} END {printf ("\n") } ' FILE

bouktin · 2011-02-02 11:51:41 6

monitor when target host will be up
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while true; do date; ssh <YOUR HOST HERE> "echo" && echo "HOST UP" && break; sleep 60; done

unixmonkey11685 · 2011-05-29 19:54:16 3
Copy public ssh Id to new host withtout bash redirection
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cat .ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh <HOST> "mkdir -p .ssh && tee -a .ssh/authorized_keys"

Valise · 2012-10-11 12:12:45 7
command line to drop all table from a databse
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mysql -u uname dbname -e "show tables" | grep -v Tables_in | grep -v "+" | gawk '{print "drop table " $1 ";"}' | mysql -u uname dbname

dlamotte · 2009-02-05 14:53:09 31
quick and easy way of validating a date format of yyyy-mm-dd and returning a boolean

Quick and easy way of validating a date format of yyyy-mm-dd and returning a boolean, the regex can easily be upgraded to handle "in betweens" for mm dd or to validate other types of strings, ex. ip address. Boolean output could easily be piped into a condition for a more complete one-liner.
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echo 2006-10-10 | grep -c '^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]$'

rez0r · 2009-05-11 22:18:43 7
Mail text file (/tmp/scream-dump) contents from linux box with subject(scream-dump)
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mail -s scream-dump user@example.com < /tmp/scream-dump

imsaar · 2009-12-01 21:04:22 3
Precide a bunch of files with a number in a pattern for example to indisperse a podcast backlock with more recent podcasts

This command adds the numbers 10, 12, 14 to a bunch of mp3's in the current working directory. You can then run the command replacing the inital i=10 with i=11 to add 11,13,15 in another directory then mv the files together and the first files interweave with the second group of files. I used this to weave a backlog of a podcast with other podcast so I didn't get sick of one while I was catching up. I started at 10 because printf blows up with 0 padded numbers 08 and 09 which kind of makes the printf command redundant as it was used to pad numbers 1 - 9 so they would come first and not get sorted incorrectly
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i=10;for o in *.mp3; do i=$(printf "%02d" $i); mv $o $i$o; ((i = $i + 2)); done

bazzawill · 2009-04-13 12:33:52 7
Get length of array in zsh

Returns the index of the last element in the array. Show Sample Output
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```
%foo=(a b c d e)
%echo $foo[(I)$foo[-1]]
5
```
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$foo[(I)$foo[-1]]

andrew112358 · 2009-10-01 20:07:14 5
commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

Requires html2text. Print bad, but often funny commit messages from whatthecommit.com Show Sample Output
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```
I don't know what these changes are supposed to accomplish but somebody told me
to make them.
```
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curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | html2text | sed '$d'

zbeekman · 2011-04-14 16:51:53 4
List detached screen sessions

If you have many screen sessions, it can be difficult to find the id of the one you just detached from so you can re-attach using `screen -x -S ` Show Sample Output
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```
$ screen -ls | grep D
	16017.tiny	(Detached)
	22797.super	(Detached)
```
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screen -ls | grep D

peter4512 · 2012-03-01 14:05:40 4
Check the current price of Bitcoin (jq version, defines a function)

The only pre-requisite is jq (and curl, obviously). The other version used grep, but jq is much more suited to JSON parsing than that. Show Sample Output
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```
$ btc USD
1 BTC = 232.0986 USD
$ btc GBP
1 BTC = 149.4399 GBP
```
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btc() { echo "1 BTC = $(curl -s https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice/$1.json | jq .bpi.\"$1\".rate | tr -d \"\"\") $1"; }

benjabean1 · 2015-09-19 02:49:30 18
run a command repeatedly

This runs a command continuously, restarting it if it exits. Sort of a poor man's daemontools. Useful for running servers from the command line instead of inittab.
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doloop() { DONT=/tmp/do-run-run-run; while true; do touch $DONT; (sleep 30; rm $DONT;) & $1 ; if [ -e $DONT ]; then echo restarting too fast; return ; fi ; done }

evil_otto · 2009-02-21 02:11:18 5
Do an OR search using grep to look for more than one search term

This is a simple but useful command to search for multiple terms in a file at once. This prevents you from having to do mutliple grep's of the same file. Show Sample Output
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```
~> cat myFile.txt
hello
commandlinefu
how
are
you today?

Sincerely,
The World
~> grep -i 'hello\|world' myFile.txt
hello
The World
~>
```
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grep -i '<searchTerm>\|<someOtherSearchTerm>' <someFileName>

scifisamurai · 2009-05-11 23:05:54 8
Convert one's Java source file encoding

One of my friends committed his code in the encoding of GB2312, which broke the build job. I have to find his code and convert.
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find . -name "*.java" -type f -perm +600 -print | xargs -I _ sh -c 'grep -q hexianmao _ && iconv -f gb2312 -t utf8 -o _ -c _ '

Sunng · 2011-03-08 13:02:25 7
Extract 2 copies of .tar.gz content

Sometimes you might need to have two copies of data that is in tar. You might unpack, and then copy, but if IO is slow, you might lower it by automatically writing it twice (or more times)
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mkdir copy{1,2}; gzip -dc file.tar.gz | tee >( tar x -C copy1/ ) | tar x -C copy2/

depesz · 2011-04-14 17:02:05 5
Alternative for basename using grep to extract file name

fileName /path/to/file.ext quivalent to basename /path/to/file.ext Show Sample Output
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```
$ fileName /path/to/file.ext
file.ext
$ 
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fileName() { echo "$1" | grep -o "[^/]*$"; }

totti · 2011-08-19 18:16:22 3
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Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum in a readable format

Generates the md5 hash, without the trailing " -" and with the output "broken" into pairs of hexs.

Amazing real time picture of the sun in your wallpaper

Changes the wallpaper for the last IR picture of the sun taken by SOHO satellite. Lesser size, try $ curl http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_195/512/latest.jpg | xli -onroot -fullscreen -xzoom 120 -yzoom 120 -border black stdin I use inside kalarm(kde), updating every 15 minutes needs xli , curl

Change a specific value in a path

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kill all process that belongs to you

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Print all lines in a file that are not a certain length

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power off system in X minutes

Replace 60 with the number of minutes until you want the machine to shut down. Alternatively give an absolute time in the format hh:mm (shutdown -h 9:30) Or shutdown right away (shutdown -h now)

Check if a domain is available and get the answer in just one line

Returns nothing if the domain exists and 'No match for domain.com' otherwise.

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