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Wake up a remote computer

Wakes up a computer on your LAN with a Wake-On-LAN packet. MAC Address must match the NIC MAC, computer must have WOL enabled in the BIOS. Show Sample Output
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```
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:9 with 00:00:DE:AD:BE:EF
```
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wakeonlan 00:00:DE:AD:BE:EF

tyzbit · 2014-06-13 16:16:33 8
Open image file from command line

Works in Gnome
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eog someimg.jpg

dnlcorrea · 2014-10-05 00:58:46 8
Grep ip addresses from access attempts to a page and add them to an ipset referenced by an iptables rule
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grep page.php /var/log/httpd/access_log|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq|perl -e 'while (<STDIN>){chomp; $cmd=`ipset add banned -! -q $_`; }'

luchino7773 · 2015-05-13 07:08:59 10
Monitor memory fine-grained usage (e.g. firefox)

I have modified the original one-liner to allow it to manage multiple PIDs. However, I haven't found the way it can work properly with the watch command. NOTE: brace expand must be activated via "set -B" in order to this script can work. Show Sample Output
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```
961936 KB
```
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cat $(echo "ls /proc/{`pidof firefox | sed -e 's/$/,/' -e 's/ /,/g'`}/smaps 2>/dev/null" | bash) | awk '/Rss/{sum += $2; } END{print sum, "KB"}'

pchalim · 2015-09-30 22:22:53 9
Delete a certificate from the macOS security keychain

Use `security list-keychains` to find possible keychains, and `security dump-keychain` to look for certificates. `sudo security delete-certificate` without arguments shows options for removing: by common name or by SHA-1 hash. This is especially useful if a certificate locks up Keychain Access.app, which happens for certificates with many SANs in macOS 10.12. Found via: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16019443
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sudo security delete-certificate -c 1000-sans.badssl.com

lgarron · 2017-04-06 01:40:04 21
get the public ip adress of server on shell
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ifconfig | grep "inet addr:" | cut -d: -f2 | awk {'print($1)'} | grep -v 127.0

aysadk · 2017-05-23 21:43:15 17
Disable mouse acceleration
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xset m default

tofu00 · 2017-11-29 10:17:53 28
git log1 alias

This command limits the oputut of git log to one-line per commit and an abbreviated commit ID. Show Sample Output
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% git log1
45c82b5... Merge branch 'header-fixes-for-linus'
<etc>
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git config --global alias.log1 "log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"

bartman · 2009-02-13 23:38:42 10
what the free memory grow or shink
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watch -d "free -mt"

srineer · 2009-02-18 14:46:54 8
this toggles mute on the Master channel of an alsa soundcard

I've had this as mute.sh in my ~/bin/ for some time.
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on="off"; off="on"; now=$(amixer get Master | tr -d '[]' | grep "Playback.*%" |head -n1 |awk '{print $7}'); amixer sset Master ${!now}

hans · 2009-02-25 09:03:08 8
Find all files <10MB and sum up their size

files
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i=0; for f in $(find ./ -size -10M -exec stat -c %s {} \; ); do i=$(($i + $f)); done; echo $i

dakira · 2010-01-08 15:47:35 3
Sniff ONLY POP3 authentication by intercepting the USER command

The command is useful for monitoring the use of the boxes and their connection IP. Result file "sniff" is readable with GUI program "wireshark" or through CLI with the command: tcpdump -f "sniff" -XX Show Sample Output
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USER username@maildomain.com
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tcpdump -i eth0 "tcp port pop3 and ip[40] = 85 and ip[41] = 83" -s 1500 -n -w "sniff"

ironmarc · 2010-11-18 09:03:08 2
Convert a directory of pdfs into scaled down pngs

Using ghostscript instead of imagemagick to convert pdfs into pngs. It keeps pngs with pdfs
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shopt -s nullglob; for i in $(find "Your/file/system" -name "*.pdf"); do e="$(dirname $i)/$(basename $i '.pdf').png"; gs -sDEVICE=png16m -q -dPDFFitPage -g492x380 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dNOSUBSTDEVICECOLORS -o $e $i; done

unixmonkey15302 · 2010-12-17 13:30:54 5
Find .java files with high complexity (counting curly braces)
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find src/ -name "*.java" | while read f; do echo -n "$f "; cat "$f" | tr -dc '{}'; echo; done | awk '{ print length($2), $1 }' | sort -n

mindsocket · 2011-07-21 01:25:31 8
Create fortune's *.dat file from commandlinefu from saved preferite

Create fortune's *.dat file from commandlinefu from saved preferite script by suhasgupta (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3681/backup-all-your-commandlinefu.com-favourites-to-a-plaintext-file) - Italian tutorial here: http://mrehqe.blogspot.com/2011/11/come-ottenere-un-commandlinefu-della.html
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sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n\n/\n%\n/g' input.txt >output

mrehqe · 2011-11-06 11:55:33 3
Nohup

After you execute a command (or shell script) in the background using &, if you logout from the session, the command will get killed. To avoid that, you should use nohup as shown below.
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nohup ./my-shell-script.sh &

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 19:43:42 74
Replace nelines with spaces
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sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n/ /;ta'

T4b · 2012-08-21 09:45:16 6
Pipe system log to espeak
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tail -f /var/log/messages.log | while read line ; do echo $line | cut -d \ -f5- | sed s/\\[[0-9]*\\]// | espeak ; done

asdfkajsdfh · 2012-10-27 23:00:53 4
Tar dir excluding tmp
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tar -zcvf <archive<.tar.gz --exclude /home/szimbaro/tmp /home/szimbaro

szimbaro · 2013-02-27 13:47:59 4
mount iso file
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mount -o loop centos.iso /nmt/dir

yangfeng724 · 2013-07-01 08:32:55 32
empty one file
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> filename.txt

hustlijian · 2013-12-06 09:12:00 16
Use wbinfo to output a table with basic user information from the default domain controller.

### for ADUSER in $(wbinfo -u --domain="$(wbinfo --own-domain)" | sort); do WBSEP=$(wbinfo --separator); ADUNAME=$(wbinfo -i "$ADUSER" | cut -d ":" -f5); UINFO=$(wbinfo -i "$ADUSER" | cut -d ":" -f3); GINFO=$(wbinfo -i "$ADUSER" | cut -d ":" -f4); SIDU=$(wbinfo -U "$UINFO"); SIDG=$(wbinfo -G "$GINFO"); USERID=$(wbinfo -s "$SIDU" | sed 's/.\{1\}$//' | cut -d "$WBSEP" -f2); GROUPID=$(wbinfo -s "$SIDG" | sed 's/.\{1\}$//' | cut -d "$WBSEP" -f2); echo -e "$ADUSER:$USERID:$ADUNAME:$GROUPID"; done | column -tx -s: ### Show Sample Output
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administrator     Administrator         Domain Admins
auditor           auditor               Domain Users
consultant1       Consultant 1          Domain Users
consultant2       Consultant 2          Domain Users
guest             Guest                 Domain Guests
krbtgt            krbtgt                Domain Users
scanmgr           scanmgr               Domain Admins
skillcheck        Skill Check           Domain Users
```
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for DOMAIN in $(wbinfo -m); do WBSEP=$(wbinfo --separator); ADSERVER=$(wbinfo ... (Read description for full command)))

jaimerosario · 2014-06-13 21:03:23 8
alias that copies text into clipboard and clears clipboard after X seconds

This alias is useful if you need to use some text often. Executing the alias will copy the text into your clipboard and then remove it after X seconds. Show Sample Output
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No output
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alias lp="echo -n \"some text to copy\" | pbcopy; sleep 120 && echo -n \"done\" | pbcopy &"

wsams · 2014-10-05 19:43:49 8
Resize and compress jpg images to another path with mogrify
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find /media/mmc/ -iname "*.JPG" -exec mogrify -quality 75 -resize '800x600' -path ~/Temp/ {} \;

chrisv · 2015-01-19 10:08:38 8
Network Interfaces
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sudo ip addr show

olto · 2015-10-01 04:14:47 25
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find files containing text

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Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Randomize lines in a file

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list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Run a bash script in debug mode, show output and save it on a file

Sends both stdout and stderr to the pipe which captures the data in the file 'out.test' and sends to stdout of tee (likely /dev/tty unless redirected). Works on Bourne, Korn and Bash shells.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Terminate a frozen SSH-session

A key sequence for terminating a frozen session. Full sequence on a swedish keyboard: [ENTER] [ALTGR] tilde [SPACE] dot

aplay some whitenoise

Plays whitenoise from /dev/urandom.

Search some text from all files inside a directory

Lines per second in a log file

Another way of counting the line output of tail over 10s not requiring pv. Cut to have the average per second rate : tail -n0 -f access.log>/tmp/tmp.log & sleep 10; kill $! ; wc -l /tmp/tmp.log | cut -c-2 You can also enclose it in a loop and send stderr to /dev/null : while true; do tail -n0 -f access.log>/tmp/tmp.log & sleep 2; kill $! ; wc -l /tmp/tmp.log | cut -c-2; done 2>/dev/null

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