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Fast portscanner via xargs
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xargs -i -P 1200 nc -zvn {} 22 < textfile-with-hosts.txt

wuseman1 · 2019-08-25 02:56:52 803
backup file. (for bash)
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cp -p file-you-want-backup{,_`date +%Y%m%d`} # for bash

wbx · 2009-02-08 06:34:46 9
Leap year calculation
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year=2010; math=`echo "$year%4" | bc`; [ ! -z $year ] && [ $math -eq 0 ] && echo "$year is leap year!" || echo "$year isn't leap year";

mvrilo · 2010-03-30 15:33:00 4
Get the amount of currently registered users from i18n.counter.li.org.
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wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'

hunterm · 2010-10-07 03:19:17 4
Find out the permissions of the current directory

This will show you the permissions on the directory you are currently in
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ls -lad

techie · 2013-04-03 09:58:31 6
Show who are logging in and what their current commands

Short and sweet command. This command is also useful for other information such as what IP address a particular user logged in from, how long had they been logged in, what shell do they use.
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w

haivu · 2009-03-24 16:03:28 10
easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Thanks for the submit! My alternative produces summaries only for directories. The original post additionally lists all files in the current directory. Sometimes the files, they just clutter up the output. Once the big directory is located, *then* worry about which file(s) are consuming so much space.
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du -kd | egrep -v "/.*/" | sort -n

rmbjr60 · 2010-03-30 15:40:35 3
find the device when you only know the mount point
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mount | grep "mount point"

mimivx · 2011-01-31 10:21:09 2
Batch file suffix renaming

replace the "-" by the character you wish. If you have multiple extentions, like jpef, jpg and JPG you could use mmv "*-*.*" "#1.#3"
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mmv "*-*.mp3" "#1.mp3"

houghi · 2011-03-06 13:41:54 3
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

If you do not have shuf or an -R option in sort, you can fall back on awk. This provides maximum portability IMO. The command first collects words from the dictionary that match the criteria - in this case: lower case words with no punctuation that are 4 to 8 characters long. It then prints 4 random entries. I decided to print each word on a separate line to improve readability.
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awk 'BEGIN {srand} /^[a-z]{4,8}$/ {w[i++]=$0} END {while (j++<4) print w[int(rand*i)]}' /usr/share/dict/words

putnamhill · 2011-08-18 02:09:42 3
Add together the count of users from the international Linux Counter and the dudalibre.com counter.

The command was too long for the command box, so here it is: echo $(( `wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'` + `curl --silent http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en | grep users | head -2 | tail -1 | sed 's/.*<strong>//g' | sed 's/<\/strong>.*//g'` )) This took me about an hour to do. It uses wget and curl because, dudalibre.com blocks wget, and wget worked nicely for me. Show Sample Output
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138362
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Check the Description below.

hunterm · 2010-10-07 04:22:32 3
Find invalid \uxxxx Unicode escape sequences in Java source code

Get 'ack' now at http://betterthangrep.com/
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ack --java '\\u.?.?.?[^0-9a-fA-F]'

hfs · 2012-06-06 08:31:56 8
List directories sorted by size
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du -sh * | sort -h

sergeylukin · 2015-09-14 10:24:06 11
FINDING PCI DEVICES
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/sbin/lspci (-v is verbose)

tyjuan79 · 2010-07-02 15:27:37 5
vim insert at beginning of multiple lines
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:%s!^!foo!

miccaman · 2011-04-13 11:57:18 5
Weather

Grabs the current weather in your area (or their best guess of your area). Change the query to your zip code/location (e.g. google.com/search?q=weather+jakarta,+india) to get weather somewhere else. change google.com to google.ca or google.co.uk for metric. Show Sample Output
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33?F
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wget -qO- -U '' 'google.com/search?q=weather' | grep -oP '(-)?\d{1,3}\xB0[FC]'

slaufer · 2012-02-28 22:27:38 363

detect partitions

List all disks and all of their partitions on OS X. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/diskutil.8.html Show Sample Output

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/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS swap                    32.0 GB    disk0s2
   3: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF               536.9 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS spare                   671.1 MB   disk0s4
   5:          Apple_CoreStorage                         99.5 GB    disk0s5
   6:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               650.0 MB   disk0s6
   7:          Apple_CoreStorage                         616.3 GB   disk0s7
   8:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s8
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS OS                     *99.2 GB    disk1
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *616.0 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                        ZFS                         615.7 GB   disk2s2
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:             zfs_pool_proxy gjp22                  *614.2 GB   disk3
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *640.1 GB   disk4
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:                        ZFS                         639.8 GB   disk4s2
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:             zfs_pool_proxy zhandy                 *635.7 GB   disk5
   1:       zfs_filesystem_proxy Pocket Time Machine     85.1 GB    disk5s1
/dev/disk7
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk7
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk7s1
   2:                        ZFS                         2.0 TB     disk7s2
/dev/disk8
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:             zfs_pool_proxy tall                   *2.0 TB     disk8
   1:       zfs_filesystem_proxy backups                 62.4 GB    disk8s1
   2:       zfs_filesystem_proxy LaCie d2 Extreme        50.7 GB    disk8s1s1
   3:       zfs_filesystem_proxy 11G                     50.7 GB    disk8s1s1s1
   4:       zfs_filesystem_proxy 12A                     50.7 GB    disk8s1s1s2
   5:       zfs_filesystem_proxy blocky                  54.2 GB    disk8s1s2
   6:       zfs_filesystem_proxy gjp22                   376.0 GB   disk8s1s3
   7:       zfs_filesystem_proxy zhandy                  478.3 GB   disk8s1s4
   8:       zfs_filesystem_proxy Pocket Time Machine     107.4 GB   disk8s1s4s1

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grahamperrin · 2012-10-06 21:18:27 6

Binary digits Matrix effect

Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13611501/bash-version-of-c64-code-art-10-print-chr205-5rnd1-goto-10 Show Sample Output

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yes 'c=(" " " " " " 0 1); printf "${c[RANDOM%5]}"' | bash

stx · 2013-11-09 16:10:41 6

generate random password

A slightly shorter version. Also doesn't put a return character at the end of the password
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tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' < /dev/urandom | head -c10

Phil · 2009-12-01 14:22:20 4
Get a file from SharePoint with cURL

If you know the URL of a file on a SharePoint server, it's just a matter of logging in with your AD credentials to get the file with cURL
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curl --ntlm -u DOMAIN/user https://sharepoint.domain.com/path/to/file

sud0er · 2010-11-11 22:22:24 182
create html output from colored, word-level git diff

references: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8818789/git-diff-word-diff-with-oneline-files use aha to output html: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20861333/199217
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git diff --word-diff --color-words | aha > index.html && firefox index.html

dlebauer · 2015-04-20 15:24:56 10
Sweep and download all mp3 (in French) of Rendez-vous avec X (Meet with Mr. X) of the French public radio

Sweep and download all mp3 (in French) of "Rendez-vous avec X" (Meet with M. X) of French public radio From 1997 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_1997_01_04.mp3 To 2015 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_2015_06_20.mp3 Balaye et telecharge les episodes depuis 1997 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_1997_01_04.mp3 jusqu'en 2015 http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_2015_06_20.mp3
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wget http://rendezvousavecmrx.free.fr/audio/mr_x_{1997..2015}_{01..12}_{01..31}.mp3

pascalvaucheret · 2015-08-13 21:34:50 12
Empty a file
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truncate foobar.txt

w216 · 2009-12-29 01:52:12 3
Slideshow of images in the current folder

-d Draw the filename at the top-left of the image -F fullscreen -z randomize -D 1 - delay 1 second between changing slides This command will show images in subdirectories as well.
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feh -d -F -z -D 1 *

ivanatora · 2010-02-26 11:06:11 4
Command line calculator

This is an "argument calculator" funktion. The precision is set to 4 and you can use dot (.) or comma (,) as decimal mark (which is great for german users with a comma on the numpad).
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calc() { echo "scale=4; ${*//,/.}" | bc -l; }

fpunktk · 2011-10-24 19:58:20 4
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Virtualbox: setup hardware

where - memory 256 assign 256 Mb RAM - acpi on enable ACPI (mandatory if you use Winfog 2000 - ioapic off disable the IO APIC. Not useful if you use one CPU (on virtual machine or a 32 bit operative system). As ACPI, this switch is mandatory for Winbug 2000 - pae on enable the Phisical Address Extension how to use more than 4Gb of RAM on x86 CPU - hwvirtex on enables hardware virtualization extensions for microprocessors that have this feature (which should be also enabled in the BIOS of the motherboard) - nestedpaging on allows part of the processes of memory management hardware are made directly

Disassemble some shell code

This one liner takes the shell code that you can grab off of the web and disassemble it into readable assembly so you can validate the code does what it says, before using it. The shell code in the above example is from http://www.shell-storm.org/shellcode/files/shellcode-623.php You can replace "-s intel" with "-s att" to get AT&T format disassembly.

Burn CD/DVD from an iso, eject disc when finished.

cdrecord -scanbus will tell you the (x,y,z) value of your cdr (for example, mine is 3,0,0)

Tunnel ssh through Socks Proxy

If you are blocked or need to use a Socks proxy

Finding the number of cpu's

Get the total length of time in hours:minutes:seconds (HH:MM:SS) of all video (or audio) in the current dir (and below)

change the *.avi to whatever you want to match, you can remove it altogether if you want to check all files.

remove files and directories with acces time older than a given date

touch a dummy file with the specified date, then use find with -anewer .

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Real time duplication of Apache app traffic to a second server

This takes the stream created by apache requests containing jsp and funnels them to another server. I'm using this for simulating real time traffic. The nice command gives ssh maximum CPU cycles, awk & grep strip out everything served by apache. Putting parallel on curl is important because curl is synchronous and waits for the response. Yes, I thought about using wget but it didn't seem any easier. Also, if you figure out how to run this in the background let me know. Every time I background it it stops. If you have multiple front end servers just run multiple instances of this.

File rotation without rename command

Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

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