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creating an USB Image
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sudo dd if=/your.img of=/dev/rdiskx bs=1m

raaiman · 2012-10-30 05:57:33 4
Descargar video desde youtube en linux
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youtube-dl urldelvideoyoutube

cvargasc · 2013-04-23 14:54:58 6
Show numerical values for each of the 256 colors in ZSH

Prints an easy-to-copy color code for each color. Show Sample Output
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```
\e[38;05;1m
\e[38;05;2m
\e[38;05;3m
```
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for i in {0..255}; do echo -e "\e[38;05;${i}m\\\e[38;05;${i}m"; done | column -c 80 -s ' '; echo -e "\e[m"

derv82 · 2013-07-05 07:16:19 6
count match string lines from file(s)

-c will count the number of times your search matches in the file. Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat file.txt
hello
goodbye
hello
$
$ grep -c "hello" file.txt
2
$
```
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grep -c "search_string" /path/to/file

meatflag · 2013-12-10 18:13:54 7
Create a nifty overview of the hardware in your computer

entering this command as root may give more complete results, creating a tmp file, and immediately opening the file might be more useful
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sudo lshw -html > /tmp/hardware.html && xdg-open /tmp/hardware.html

Sadi · 2014-03-08 10:40:21 7
Look PHP Version

if you want to look php version on linux Show Sample Output
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```
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Dec 11 2013 03:29:57)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
```
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php -v

warkirasep · 2014-06-20 00:04:01 6
Creating Harddisk image and saving on remote server

By this command you can take the snapshot of you harddisk (full) and create the image , the image will be directly store on remote server through ssh. Here i am creating the image of /dev/hda and saving it at 4.2.2.2 as /root/server.img.
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dd if=/dev/hda | ssh root@4.2.2.2 'dd of=/root/server.img'

suyashjain · 2014-10-13 13:43:47 7
Show drive names next to their full serial number (and disk info)

This is much easier to parse and do something else with (eg: automagically create ZFS vols) than anything else I've found. It also helps me keep track of which disks are which, for example, when I want to replace a disk, or image headers in different scenarios. Being able to match a disk to the kernels mapping of said drive the disks serial number is very helpful ls -l /dev/disk/by-id Normal `ls` command to list contents of /dev/disk/by-id grep -v "wwn-" Perform an inverse search - that is, only output non-matches to the pattern 'wwn-' egrep "[a-zA-Z]{3}$" A regex grep, looking for three letters and the end of a line (to filter out fluff) sed 's/\.\.\/\.\.\///' Utilize sed (stream editor) to remove all occurrences of "../../" sed -E 's/.*[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}\s//' Strip out all user and permission fluff. The -E option lets us use extended (modern) regex notation (larger control set) sed -E 's/->\ //' Strip out ascii arrows "-> " sort -k2 Sort the resulting information alphabetically, on column 2 (the disk letters) awk '{print $2,$1}' Swap the order of the columns so it's easier to read/utilize output from sed 's/\s/\t/' Replace the space between the two columns with a tab character, making the output more friendly For large ZFS pools, this made creating my vdevs immeasurably easy. By keeping track of which disks were in which slot (spreadsheet) via their serial numbers, I was able to then create my vols simply by copying and pasting the full output of the disk (not the letter) and pasting it into my command. Thereby allowing me to know exactly which disk, in which slot, was going into the vdev. Example command below. zpool create tank raidz2 -o ashift=12 ata-... ata-... ata-... ata-... ata-... ata-... Show Sample Output
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```
sda     ata-Samsung_SSD_840_PRO_Series_SERIALSERIAL
sdb     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
sdc     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
sdd     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
sde     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
sdf     ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-INFOINFOINFO
```
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ls -l /dev/disk/by-id |grep -v "wwn-" |egrep "[a-zA-Z]{3}$" |sed 's/\.\.\/\.\.\///' |sed -E 's/.*[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}\s//' |sed -E 's/->\ //' |sort -k2 |awk '{print $2,$1}' |sed 's/\s/\t/'

lig0n · 2015-01-25 19:29:40 8
Resume incomplete youtube-dl video files

Resume incomplete youtube-dl video files. Assuming mp4 format here.
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ls *.part | sed 's/^.*-$.\{11,11\}$\.mp4\.part$/\1/g' - | youtube-dl -i -f mp4 -a -

agp · 2017-02-28 23:31:55 21
Send notify to Kodi

(Tested on LibreElec8 and Openelec8)
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MESSAGE1="mytext";MESSAGE2="text2";curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"GUI.ShowNotification","params":{"title":"'"$MESSAGE1"'","message":"'"$MESSAGE2"'", "displaytime":27000},"id":1}' http://kodiip:5661/jsonrpc

Imz · 2017-06-06 10:48:13 16
Rename duplicate files created by GDrive

Changes files like "temp (2).txt" to "temp.txt". Does not overwrite files that already exist.
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find . -name "*$2$*" -exec rename -s \ $2$ '' -n {} +

buddacow · 2017-06-30 04:33:50 17
du show hidden files all files
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du -sch .[!.]* * |sort -h

aysadk · 2017-08-17 20:46:15 21
Create a local compressed tarball from remote host directory

untar in place with out creating a temporary file
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ssh user@host "tar -zcf - /path/to/dir" | tar -xvz

sandeep048 · 2017-10-07 11:37:51 18
Command line invocation of ImageMagick to resize a file

convert -resize 750?500 -quality 80% *.jpg These are command-line invocations of ImageMagick functions. The first sizes an image file to 40% of original and saves it to a different name, while the second makes all jpg files in a directory sized to 750x500 pixels. Such a pleasure not to need to point and click to make a bunch of thumbnails -- for example.
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convert panorama_rainbow_2005.jpg -resize 40% panorama_rainbow_compress.jpg

pcardout · 2009-02-15 08:24:50 8
convert a .mp4 to a .avi
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ffmpeg -i "/path/to/file.mp4" "/path/to/file.avi"

smcpherson · 2009-03-27 04:36:41 6
Convert CSV files to TSV

Convert comma separated files to tab separated files. (MySQL eats tab separated files with much less instruction than comma seperated files.) Show Sample Output
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sed 's/,/\t/g' report.csv > report.tsv

viner · 2009-07-23 15:39:03 5
Remove lines matching a pattern in files (backup any modified files)
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pattern='regexp_pattern'; find . -type f -perm +220 ! -name '*.bak' -print0 | xargs -0 egrep -lZ $pattern | xargs -0 sed -i.bak -e "/$pattern/d"

yblusseau · 2010-03-11 13:10:15 2
Get Unique Hostnames from Apache Config Files

Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server.
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cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/* | egrep 'ServerAlias|ServerName' | tr -s " " | sed 's/^[ ]//g' | uniq | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sed 's/www.//g' | sort | uniq

chronosMark · 2010-04-08 08:51:17 5
Generate list of words and their frequencies in a text file.
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tr A-Z a-z | tr -d 0-9\[\],\*-.?\:\"#\;\<\>\@ | tr ' /_' '\n' | sort | uniq -c

gcurious · 2010-10-19 17:21:05 3
Define Google Talk plugin urpmi media source for Mandriva/Mageia (works for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems)

This command adds a urpmi media source called "google-talkplugin" to the urpmi configuration on Mandriva or Mageia. Needs to be run as root. We specify the option "--update" so that when Google provides a newer version of Google Talk plugin in their download system then running a system update (eg: "urpmi --auto-update") will result in our copy of Google Talk plugin getting updated (along with any other Mandriva/Mageia pending updates). To install Google Talk plugin from this source, use: urpmi google-talkplugin # install plugin used for voice and video Google chat via gmail Show Sample Output
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```
[root@localhost mpb]#  urpmi.addmedia --update google-talkplugin http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/rpm/stable/$(uname -m | sed -e "s/i.86/i386/")
adding medium "google-talkplugin"
    http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/rpm/stable/i386/media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
```
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urpmi.addmedia --update google-talkplugin http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/rpm/stable/$(uname -m | sed -e "s/i.86/i386/")

mpb · 2011-04-30 23:01:36 3
Change time format in log, UNIX Timestamp to Human readable

It remove the square bracket and convert UNIX time to human readable time for all line of a stream (or file). Show Sample Output
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```
Input :
[1325199600] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: HOST01;Loopback;OK;HARD;1;Loopback0:UP:1 UP: OK
[1325199600] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: HOST01;Uptime Routers SFR;OK;HARD;1;Information only: 114 days

Ouput :
12/30/11 00:00:00 CURRENT SERVICE STATE: HOST01;Loopback;OK;HARD;1;Loopback0:UP:1 UP: OK
12/30/11 00:00:00 CURRENT SERVICE STATE: HOST01;Uptime Routers SFR;OK;HARD;1;Information only: 114 days
```
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sed -r 's/(\[|])//g' | awk ' { $1=strftime("%D %T",$1); print }'

Zulu · 2012-02-03 13:07:37 4
Suspend to RAM with KDE 4

This uses the KDE suspend to ram.
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qdbus org.freedesktop.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement suspendToRam

Aissen · 2012-03-12 19:46:14 3
Generate a password for website authentication that can be recreated each time you need to authenticate without saving the password

Create a bash function for easy reference webPassword() { echo $1 $2 | md5sum | awk '{print substr($0,0,10)}' } alias webpwd=webPassword Use like this. webpwd www.commandlinefu.com MyPetNameHere Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo http://www.TheWebSiteName.com privatekeyword | md5sum | awk '{print substr($0,0,10)}'

3ac2dd2389
```
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echo http://www.TheWebSiteName.com privatekeyword | md5sum | awk '{print substr($0,0,10)}'

ertjies · 2012-06-28 11:32:08 3
Cycle through all active screen sessions
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for s in /tmp/screens/S-$USER/*; do screen -r "$(basename "$s")"; done

dgbaley27 · 2012-08-23 16:16:54 5
get size of a file
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ls -lh file-name | awk '{ print $5}'

whoiscris · 2013-07-05 10:16:12 6
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Check for login failures and summarize

This command checks for the number of times when someone has tried to login to your server and failed. If there are a lot, then that user is being targeted on your system and you might want to make sure that user either has remote logins disabled, or has a strong password, or both. If your output has an "invalid" line, it is a summary of all logins from users that don't exist on your system.

Write comments to your history.

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Uptime in minute

Want to run scripts/programs in the system after starting X minute [ For letting the system to free ]? This will give uptime in minute.

Runs previous command replacing foo by bar every time that foo appears

Very useful for rerunning a long command changing some arguments globally. As opposed to ^foo^bar, which only replaces the first occurrence of foo, this one changes every occurrence.

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give me back my sound card

for when a program is hogging the sound output. finds, and kills. add -9 to the end for wedged processes. add in 'grep ^program' after lsof to filter.

Transfer large files/directories with no overhead over the network

This invokes tar on the remote machine and pipes the resulting tarfile over the network using ssh and is saved on the local machine. This is useful for making a one-off backup of a directory tree with zero storage overhead on the source. Variations on this include using compression on the source by using 'tar cfvp' or compression at the destination via $ ssh user@host "cd dir; tar cfp - *" | gzip - > file.tar.gz

Convert images to a multi-page pdf

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Converts all windows .URL shortcuts in a directory to linux (gnome) .desktop shortcuts

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

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