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dd if=10gb of=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10240

2009-02-18 15:30:29

User: logik

Functions: dd

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HDD Performance Read Test

Test your XFS filesystem and Raptor hard drives for write performance.

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man !!

2010-08-14 14:09:31

User: SQUIIDUX

Functions: man

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See The MAN page for the last command

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alias path='echo $PATH | tr ":" "\n"'

2009-03-12 17:07:58

User: voyeg3r

Functions: alias tr

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Show amigable path

change ":" in path for new line and associate word path to var $PATH

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function setTerm() { PROFILE=${1}; echo "tell app \"Terminal\" to set current settings of first window to settings set \"${PROFILE}\""|osascript; };

2010-03-11 17:35:26

User: c3w

Functions: echo

Tags: terminal osx

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OSX script to change Terminal profiles based on machine name; use with case statement parameter matching

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mogrify -modulate 100,100,70 ../../icons/32x32/*.png

2011-06-13 15:11:16

User: houghi

Tags: ImageMagick image xargs icons

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use ImageMagik to convert tint (hue rotation) of an icon set directory.

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mogrify -resize SIZE_IN_PIXELS *.jpg

2013-07-05 14:14:04

User: o0110o

Tags: bash ImageMagick Linux batch images mogrify

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Batch resize all images to a width of 'X' pixels while maintaing the aspect ratio

Batch resize all images to a width of 'X' pixels while maintaing the aspect ratio.

This makes uses of ImageMagick to make life easier.

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for f in *.html; do head -n -1 $f > temp; cat temp > $f; rm temp; done

2009-10-12 12:49:18

User: Sunng

Functions: cat head rm

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remove the last line of all html files in a directory

Some malicious program appends a iframe or script tag to you web pages on some server, use this command to clean them in batch.

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grep -i '^DocumentRoot' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf | cut -f2 -d'"'

2010-07-14 13:30:36

User: hm2k

Functions: cut grep

Tags: grep cut apache httpd

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How To Get the Apache Document Root

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head -n1 sample.txt | tail -n1

2011-06-14 17:45:04

User: gtcom

Functions: head tail

Tags: tail HEAD

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Extract specific lines from a text file using Stream Editor (sed)

You can actually do the same thing with a combination of head and tail. For example, in a file of four lines, if you just want the middle two lines:

head -n3 sample.txt | tail -n2

Line 1 --\


Line 2     }  These three lines are selected by head -n3,
Line 3 --/    this feeds the following filtered list to tail:
Line 4
Line 1
Line 2  \___ These two lines are filtered by tail -n2, 
Line 3  /       This results in:
Line 2
Line 3

being printed to screen (or wherever you redirect it).

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2009-06-24 15:12:17

User: chickenzilla

Functions: echo sed sort tr

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Sort a list of numbers on on line, separated by spaces.

You can replace "sort -nu" with "sort -u" for a word list sorted or "sort -R" for a random-sorted line

(edit: corrected)

a=(*); echo ${a[$((RANDOM % ${#a[@]}))]}

2011-03-18 13:24:52

User: putnamhill

Functions: echo

Tags: bash random

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Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

Here's a bash version using an array.

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clgrep keyword

This is sample output - yours may be different.

view this page source to copy perl command.

====================
== make alias

$ cat alias.txt # this line is too long to post Command-line-fu
perl -MHTML::Form -MLWP::UserAgent -e'$a=LWP::UserAgent->new;push@{$a->{requests_redirectable}},"POST";$u="http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse";$f=HTML::Form->parse($a->get($u)->content,$u);$f->value(q=>join" ",@ARGV);for($a->request($f->click)->content=~m!<div class="one-liner">(.+?)(?=<div class="one-liner">|</html>)!sg){($s)=m!<div class="summary".+?>(.+?)<!s;($_)=m!<div class="command">\s*(.*?)<!s;s/</</g;s/>/>/g;s/"/"/g;s/&/&/g;print"### $s\n$_\n\n";++$n>7&&last}'

$ alias clgrep=`cat alias.txt`

====================
== grep the archive about "backup"

$ clgrep backup
### quickly backup or copy a file with bash
cp filename{,.bak}

### infile search and replace on N files (including backup of the files)
perl -pi.bk -e's/foo/bar/g' file1 file2 fileN

### backup directory. (for bash)
cp -pr directory-you-want-to-backup{,_`date +%Y%m%d`} # for bash

$ 

====================
== grep the archive about "wget"

$ clgrep wget
### Download all images from a site
wget -r -l1 --no-parent -nH -nd -P/tmp -A".gif,.jpg" http://example.com/images

### Extract tarball from internet without local saving
wget -qO - "http://www.tarball.com/tarball.gz" | tar zxvf -

### Echo the latest commands from commandlinefu on the console
wget -O - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/rss 2>/dev/null | awk '/\s*<title/ {z=match($0, /CDATA\[([^\]]*)\]/, b);print b[1]} /\s*<description/ {c=match($0, /code>(.*)<\/code>/, d);print d[1]"\n"} '

### Get My Public IP Address
wget -qO - http://myip.dk/ | egrep -m1 -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}'

$


====================
== grep recently posted

$ clgrep 
### Launch an Explorer window with a file selected
explorer /select,[file]

### Search specified $TEXT1 and Replace that by specified arg ($TEXT2)
find "$DIR" -regex "$FILENAME" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i _`date "+%y%m%d%H%M%S"` -E "s/$TEXT1/$TEXT2/g"

### count IPv4 connections per IP
netstat -anp |grep 'tcp\|udp' | awk '{print $5}' | sed s/::ffff:// | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

$

2009-02-15 11:45:28

User: wbx

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grep the command-line-fu archive

find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'

2009-03-12 22:25:26

User: JesusSuperstar

Functions: find sed

Tags: bash Linux sed find tree map

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simulates the DOS tree command that you might be missing on your Mac or Linux box

NOT MINE! Taken from hackzine.com blog.

It creates a tree-style output of all the (sub)folders and (sub)files from the current folder and down(deeper)

Quoting some of hackzine's words

"Murphy Mac sent us a link to a handy find/sed command that simulates the DOS tree command that you might be missing on your Mac or Linux box. [..split...] Like most things I've seen sed do, it does quite a bit in a single line of code and is completely impossible to read. Sure it's just a couple of substitutions, but like a jack in the box, it remains a surprise every time I run it."

httpd -S

2009-08-30 15:28:39

User: flip387

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Get list of all Apache Virtual Host and which is default for each IP address

ps -o euid,egid --ppid `netstat --inet --inet6 -pln|awk '/:80 / { split($7,tmp, "/"); print tmp[1]; }'`|sort |uniq|grep -v EUID

2010-11-18 21:22:29

User: chx

Functions: awk grep ps sort

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Find the uid and gid of your apache process

This command allows you to find the effective uid and gid of the Apache process regardless of process name (which can be apache2 or httpd depending on distro).

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vimdiff file1 file2

2012-08-24 14:58:37

User: slappy

Tags: svn vim diff

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use vim to get colorful diff output

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find . $ -iname "*.doc" -o -iname "*.docx" $ -type f -exec ls -l --full-time {} +|sort -k 6,7

2014-03-10 17:45:33

User: koby

Functions: find ls sort

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Find multiple filename expressions and sort by date

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yum --nogpgcheck install "examplePackage"

2009-08-30 18:18:30

User: iDen

Functions: install

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Intall not signed packeges with yum

Same as:

1 rpm -ivh package.rpm

2 yum localinstall package.rpm

3 Edit /etc/yum.conf or repository.repo and change the value of gpgcheck from 1 to 0 (!dangerous)

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dbus-send --print-reply --dest=im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService /im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface.PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent

2010-01-11 17:30:07

User: unixApe

Tags: pidgin dbus dbus-send

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Get current pidgin status

Returns code of current status of pidgin accounts via dbus interface

sudo update-rc.d -f nomemioscript start 99 2 3 4 5

2011-06-14 19:15:30

User: 0disse0

Functions: sudo

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if you want the script run at reboot

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sftp -p port user@host

2012-08-24 23:44:59

User: piro0285

Functions: sftp

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Connect via sftp to a specific port

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sudo update-rc.d -f nomescript stop 90 0 6

2011-06-14 19:16:29

User: 0disse0

Functions: sudo

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if you want the script run at shutdown

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for dir in ~/git/*; do (cd "$dir" && git pull); done

2013-07-06 14:24:18

User: oumu

Functions: cd dir

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bulk git pull

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scutil --dns

2009-08-31 10:34:08

User: romant

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See the order for DNS resolution on your Mac

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for file in $( vmrun list | grep 'vmx$' | sort ); do printf "% 40s %s M\n" $(echo "$( echo -n ${file}:\ ; grep memsize $file )" | sed -e 's/.*\///' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/memsize.=//'); done;

2010-11-19 06:14:11

User: linuxrawkstar

Functions: echo file grep printf sed sort

Tags: vmware

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get memory configuration (not consumption) for all running VMware virtual machines

So your boss wants to know how much memory has been assigned to each virtual machine running on your server... here's how to nab that information from the command line while logged in to that server

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