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FInd out what branches a specific commit belongs to
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git branch --contains <commit sha1 id> | sed -e 's/^[ *]*//'

jimthunderbird · 2010-08-02 03:46:47 3
Switch to windows using gpicker

Require wmctrl and gpicker and an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager
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wmctrl -i -a `wmctrl -l -x | gpicker -d "\n" -n "\n" - | awk '{print $1}'`

Iany · 2010-08-30 02:19:43 4
List of syscalls (for 32/64 bits systems)
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egrep '__NR_' /usr/include/asm/unistd_`getconf -a | awk '$1~/^WORD/{print $2}'`.h | sed -e 's/^#define __NR_//' | column -t

cicatriz · 2011-03-04 15:09:40 6

retrieve GMT time from websites ( generally accruate )

w3m is a commanline web browser, full of options, I used -dump_head for less unnecessary page download. With awk, I can retrieve dynamic changes in webpages in this very econnomical fashion Show Sample Output

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w3m -dump_head www.fiat.com | awk '/Date+/{print $6, $7}'

m33600 · 2009-06-08 00:06:01 7

intersection between two files

print members both in file1 and file2
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sort file1 file2 | uniq -d

emacs · 2010-05-28 10:25:31 6
Remove a line from a file using sed (useful for updating known SSH server keys when they change)

Easily removes line #2 in ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Show Sample Output
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perl -p -i -e 's/.*\n//g if $.==2' ~/.ssh/known_hosts

meappy · 2012-01-17 14:11:03 3
List OSX applications and versions.

Uses find, plutil and xpath. Note: Some applications don't have proper information. system_profiler might be better to use. It's a bit slow query. Due to command length limit, I removed -name "*.app" and CFBundleName. Show Sample Output
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```
/Applications/CheatSheet.app
v1.0.3
/Applications/Chess.app
v3.0
```
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find /Applications -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec sh -c 'echo "{}"; (plutil -convert xml1 -o - "{}/Contents/Info.plist" | xpath /dev/stdin "concat(\"v\", /plist/dict/string[preceding-sibling::key[1]=\"CFBundleShortVersionString\"]/node())" 2>/dev/null)' \;

darkfader · 2013-03-29 14:01:23 4
Compare a remote file with a local file

Or, if you have restricted access for sftp only, I think you can still do this: diff /path/to/localfile <(scp user@host:/path/to/remotefile >(cat))
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diff /path/to/localfile <(ssh user@host cat /path/to/remotefile)

mc0e · 2013-05-24 09:24:31 8
Add cover-art to mp3 tags
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eyeD3 --add-image=coverart.jpg:FRONT_COVER musicfile.mp3

munter · 2013-08-17 22:35:54 8
get size of a file
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du -hs file-name

bharat · 2014-05-09 07:22:53 7
Get a text on a position on the file and store in a variable
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TIMEUNIT=$(awk '/timescale/{print NR}' a)

arcege · 2009-10-28 12:12:37 3
Match a URL

don't have to be that complicated
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cho "(Something like http://foo.com/blah_blah)" | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i~/^(http|ftp):\/\//)print $i}}'

unixmonkey7109 · 2009-11-28 03:31:41 6
Recursively remove .svn directories

man find: If no paths are given, the current directory is used. - Can anybody tell me why so many people are typing the dot?
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find -type d -name ".svn" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

tuxilicious · 2010-02-25 10:16:18 6
encode a text to url_encoded format
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groovy -e 'println URLEncoder.encode("Some text")'

yababay · 2010-08-30 16:04:29 4
display mean response time of intermediates to a specified host

mtr is a network utility that combines traceroute and ping utility
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mtr -c 50 -r example.com

ohe · 2015-08-05 07:18:52 10
command to display info about the core specified

Display information about the cores. * sudo apt-get install schedtool Show Sample Output
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```
PID     1: PRIO   0, POLICY N: SCHED_NORMAL  , NICE   0, AFFINITY 0x1
```
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schedtool 1

terminalhacker · 2009-08-06 08:42:03 3
Create .tar file on Mac OS X Leopard / Snow Leopard without ._* files

Using the COPYFILE_DISABLE=true environment variable you can prevent tar from adding any ._-files to your .tar-file on Mac OS X.
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COPYFILE_DISABLE=true tar cvf newTarFile.tar Directory/

alainkaa · 2010-07-01 09:36:48 3
Get full directory path of a script regardless of where it is run from

work for execute file
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dirname $(readlink -f ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})

unixyangg · 2011-12-02 16:10:38 3
Avoid using seq and pad numbers with leading zeros

zsh only I always hated resorting to using $(seq -w 1 99) to pad numbers. zsh provides a shortcut that couldn't be more intuitive. It also works in reverse {99..01} Show Sample Output
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```
001
002
...
998
999
```
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for i in {001..999}; print $i

karld · 2009-02-16 23:03:53 7
Random unsigned integer

Grab 4 bytes from www.random.org over ssl and format them as an integer
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curl -s "https://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randbyte?nbytes=4" | od -DAn

PhillipNordwall · 2010-11-09 18:26:24 4
find php files even without extension

needs grep what supports '--recursive' Show Sample Output
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```
./CustomFields/add-avatars.php
./examples/example-widget.php
./examples/multiwidget.php
./examples/Recent_Comments.php
./examples/Recent_Posts.php
```
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grep -Ilr "<?php" .

mitry · 2011-10-23 05:11:53 3
Get your external IP address
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html2text http://checkip.dyndns.org | grep -i 'Current IP Address:'|cut -c21-36

tkoopa · 2009-08-06 10:29:02 4
speak a chat log file while it's running

like #9295, but awkish instead of perlish
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tail -f LOGFILE | awk '{system("say \"" $0 "\"");}'

tamouse · 2011-09-16 06:20:06 9
tar the current directory wihtout the absolute path

should do the same as command #12875, just shorter.
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tar -cf "../${PWD##*/}.tar" .

joedhon · 2013-11-06 11:15:38 9
Load multiple sql script in mysql

Be aware of using the --password argument as it will appear your password in plain text on the screen. You may use -p argument instead, it will prompt you to enter you password in hidden mode.
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cat schema.sql data.sql test_data.sql | mysql -u user --password=pass dbname

tristan_ph · 2009-03-24 08:39:40 6
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List 10 largest directories in current directory

du -m option to not go across mounts (you usually want to run that command to find what to destroy in that partition) -a option to also list . files -k to display in kilobytes sort -n to sort in numerical order, biggest files last tail -10 to only display biggest 10

intercept stdout/stderr of another process

Watch for when your web server returns

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a trash function for bash

Every rm'ed a file you needed? Of course you haven't. But I have. I got sick of it so I created a bash function. Here it is. It'll put trashed files into a $HOME/.Trash/"date" folder according to the date. I have rm aliased to it as well in my bashrc so that I still use the rm command. It'll choke if you attempt to trash a directory if that directory name is already in the Trash. This rarely happens in my case but it's easy enough to add another test and to mv the old dir if necessary. function trash(){ if [ -z "$*" ] ; then echo "Usage: trash filename" else DATE=$( date +%F ) [ -d "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}" ] || mkdir -p ${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE} for FILE in $@ ; do mv "${FILE}" "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}" echo "${FILE} trashed!" done fi }

send a circular

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Clone linux installation.

Command to logout all the users in one command

print/scan lines starting at record ###

Useful for finding newly added lines to a file, tail + can be used to show only the lines starting at some offset. A syslog scanner would look at the file for the first time, then record the end_of_file record number using wc -l. Later (hours, days), scan only at the lines that were added since the last scan.

Locate config files of the program

Locate config files of the program. May not be used for interactive programs like vim.

enable all bash completions in gentoo

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