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pgrep <name>

2010-02-28 22:59:33

User: alesplin

Tags: grep ps

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psgrep

You'll need to install proctools. MacPorts and Fink have this if you're running Mac OS X, check your Linux distribution's repositories if it isn't installed by default.

kill -9 `ps -u user -o "pid="`

2011-08-20 00:03:37

User: unixmonkey24730

Functions: kill

Tags: Shutdown

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Removing Backgroud Process

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wget http://tools.web4host.net/versions.tmp --quiet -O - | grep PHPMYADMIN | sed 's/PHPMYADMIN=//' | cat

2011-09-22 04:11:44

User: wr8cr8

Functions: grep sed wget

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Get the latest version of phpMyAdmin

This is to get the latest version of phpMyAdmin to support scripts to download the latest version of the software if they want to automatically update.

alias lso="sudo lsof -i -T -n"

2009-05-14 04:01:05

User: professoralex

Functions: alias

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alias for lsof -i -T -n

list what applications using what ports

who -m | sed 's/.*($.*$).*/\1/'

2011-09-22 10:28:30

User: keymon

Functions: sed who

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Get the host from where you logged in

Will print the host associated with the current stdin.

This is useful to set the DOIT_SERVER for the doit remote execution agent ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/doit/ )

export DOIT_HOST=$(who -m | sed 's/.*($.*$).*/\1/')

Note that SSH_CLIENT variable can be lost if you use su or sudo (if set to reset vars)

RANGE=500;number=$RANDOM let "number %= $RANGE"; echo "Random number less than $RANGE --- $number"

2010-08-06 13:16:52

User: 4fthawaiian

Functions: echo

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Random number less than X

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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

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Get all links of a website

firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote

2010-10-08 14:40:18

User: rovr138

Tags: profile firefox multiple

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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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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

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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

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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

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.

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

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 ≤ 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

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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