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Get list of all apache virtual hosts

list of all virtual hosts which are defined in all apache configuration files
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sudo httpd -S 2>&1 | grep 'port' | awk '{print $4,$2,$5}' | sort | column -t

gangs · 2016-01-06 12:04:47 11
Talk out of another computer's speakers

Exactly what the summary says. This command will connect to another computer via SSH, and stream audio from your computer's microphone to the other computer's speakers. Use it like an intercom.
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rec -t ogg - | ssh remote_hostname play -t ogg -

Sparkette · 2016-10-07 07:29:53 18
Colorized tail using sed

Tails make.out file and pipes it to sed which uses 3 colors: green: percentage (eg: 10%) yellow: warning (case insensitive) red: error (case insensitive)
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tail -f ~/make.out | sed -e 's/$...%$/\o033[32m\1\o033[39m/' -e 's/$.*[Ww][Aa][Rr][Nn][Ii][Nn][Gg].*$/\o033[33m\1\o033[39m/' -e 's/$.*[Ee][Rr][Rr][Oo][Rr].*$/\o033[31m\1\o033[39m/'

redowk · 2017-03-06 18:20:36 18
Add git branch name to bash prompt

When you go to git repository from the terminal it will display currently checked out git branch in the prompt. Show Sample Output
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```
ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-0 /var/www/domains (master) $
```
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curl -L bit.ly/git_bash_profile > ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile

ekka21 · 2017-07-08 16:20:26 18
Generic date format

Useful to archive files once a day: cp file file.$(date --iso) Show Sample Output
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```
2009-02-26
```
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date --iso

raphink · 2009-02-25 23:50:40 7
#3 Step! FIrst Pass quickly!

Quick grab of the data to the new disk!
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ddrescue -n /dev/old_disk /dev/new_disk rescued.log

bbelt16ag · 2011-01-08 11:23:46 3
Animated Desktop: electricsheep

This is a simple command which makes electricsheep render directly to your background
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nice -n 5 electricsheep -window-id `xwininfo -root|head -n 2|grep xwininfo|cut -c 22-26`

kbaegis · 2011-02-14 03:58:58 4
split a string (2)
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read VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 <<< aa bb cc; echo $VAR2

h3xx · 2011-07-24 18:56:30 3
Play flash video in the cache (loaded) with mplayer

Alias to play flash videos with mplayer. You can replace mplayer with your favorite video player. This alias supports Chrome & Firefox's way of handling the flash plugin. It will play all the videos in the cache. Note that certain videos might never make it to the cache, if the publisher ask for them not to: they will just be loaded in RAM. A variant if you're just interested in playing the audio, for example for a music : alias flashmusic="mplayer -vo null \$(find /proc/\$(pgrep -f 'libgcfl|libflashplayer')/fd/ -printf '%p %l\n' |grep FlashXX | cut -d\ -f1)"
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alias flashplay="mplayer \$(find /proc/\$(pgrep -f 'libgcflash|libflashplayer')/fd/ -printf '%p %l\n' |grep FlashXX | cut -d\ -f1)"

Aissen · 2011-12-19 09:29:57 3
Remove superfluous from conf file

Removes comments and blank lines from configuration files, leaving only settings
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grep -Ev '^( *$|#)' < conf.file

unixmonkey30404 · 2012-02-03 23:43:43 9
Print all words in a file sorted by length

optionally you can add |cut -d' ' -f2|uniq to the end of the command line.
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for a in $(cat sample.txt); do echo "$(wc -m<<<$a) $a";done|sort -n

knoppix5 · 2012-03-15 08:51:42 7
Mirror site with rel-links, 20s delay via Wget
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wget -mk -w 20 http://www.example.com/

evandrix · 2012-08-27 14:33:48 4
List all the unique extensions in a folder and print their count
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find . -type f -print | awk -F'.' '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c

vishnu81 · 2012-10-31 12:03:10 5
Download and extract a tarball on a fly, saving it

Very similar as doing "wget http://example.com/mytarball|tar xzv", this one involves the "tee" command between both, which will simultaneously write the tarball and copy it to stdout. So this command will locally save the tarball and extract it - both at the same time while it downloads.
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wget -O- http://example.com/mytarball.tgz | tee mytarball.tgz | tar xzv

unixmonkey48888 · 2013-03-06 11:11:28 4
display bash history without line numbers

alias h="history | awk '{\$1=\"\";print substr(\$0,2)}'" # h [ 07/07/2013 10:04:53 ] alias h="history | awk '{\$1=\"\";print substr(\$0,2)}'"
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history | awk '{$1="";print substr($0,2)}'

Fagood · 2013-07-07 08:00:26 9
External IP (raw data)

this is even shorter
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curl ifconfig.me

Iz7ueNae · 2013-09-19 10:05:46 10
Save a result based on a command's output in a variable while printing the command output

Many circumstances call for creating variable of a summary result while still printing the original pipe. Inserting "tee >(cat >&2)" allows the command output to still be printed while permitting the same output to be processed into a variable. Show Sample Output
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```
Mar 11 18:02:35 hostname kernel: [    0.896119] [drm:intel_dp_i2c_aux_ch] *ERROR* 
Mar 11 18:02:35 hostname kernel: [    0.898782] [drm:intel_dp_i2c_aux_ch] *ERROR* 
Mar 11 18:02:35 hostname kernel: [    3.123365] [drm:udl_parse_] *ERROR* 

>> echo $num_errs
3
```
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num_errs=`grep ERROR /var/log/syslog | tee >(cat >&2) | wc -l`

accountholder · 2014-03-12 00:04:24 11
Send email from terminal
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echo "some cool message from terminal" | mail -s "test" email@address.com

narven · 2014-06-25 10:06:00 7

generate a one-time pad

Taken from http://www.red-bean.com/onetime/#pad-generation Show Sample Output

dd if=/dev/random of=~/.onetime/to_foo.pad bs=1000 count=1

m4r14n0ju · 2016-10-07 11:31:37 18

Watch top 10 processes sorted by cpu usage
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watch "ps aux | sort -nrk 3,3 | head -n 10"

sidneycrestani · 2016-11-20 02:43:41 15
Remove last x lines from file using sed

Removes the last 5 lines from a file using sed
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sed -n -e :a -i -e '1,5!{P;N;D;};N;ba' /etc/apt/sources.list

redowk · 2017-03-06 18:22:48 20
wlanscan ssids
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iwlist wlo1 scan | grep ESSID

aysadk · 2017-07-09 16:19:10 27
Disable updates for installed Chrome plugins

This will allow you to ensure you don't get nagged by updates and also protects you from watering hole attacks! Please be sure to make sure your plugins don't have any security issues! Backups are manifext.jason.bak credit @Jay https://chat.counterpoint.info
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find / -iname "manifest.json" -exec sed 's/\"update_url\": \"http/\"update_url\": \"hxxp/g' -i.bak '{}' \;

operat0r · 2018-10-09 19:50:31 389
Play a random .avi file from a media tree

unsets variables used by the one-liner sets up the IFS bash variable to not be affected by whitespace and disables extra glob expansion uses read to slurp the results of the find command into an array selects an element of the array at random to be passed as an argument to mplayer
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unset files i; set -f; O=$IFS; while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' files[i++]; do :; done < <(find . -name '*.avi' -print0) && IFS=$O; set +f && echo "Running: mplayer \"${files[ $(( $RANDOM % ${#files[@]} )) ]}\""

DEinspanjer · 2009-02-18 16:53:57 6
Toggle cdrom device

Opens or closes the cdrom device.
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eject -T [cdrom_device]

raphink · 2009-02-25 23:53:03 16
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