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regex to match an ip

This obey that you don't match any broadcast or network addresses and stay between 1.1.1.1 - 254.254.254.254
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echo 254.003.032.3 | grep -P '^((25[0-4]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?[\d]?[1-9])\.){3}(25[0-4]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?[\d]?[1-9])$'

foob4r · 2009-09-17 12:59:44 7
Find out my Linux distribution name and version
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cat /proc/version

unixmonkey13150 · 2010-10-20 15:56:10 5
Generate Random Passwords

just change 6 to 9 or 12 or more (multiple of 3) to have bigger password Show Sample Output
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```
# openssl rand 6 -base64
Wp5e+o3t
```
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openssl rand 6 -base64

Le_Jax · 2011-10-05 14:24:41 3
pull only the temp sensor data off of a netapp

if you can use this depends on which netapp you have, this netapp is an FAS2020 Show Sample Output
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```
netapp temp: "<N/A>, 28C (82F), 29C (84F), 33C (91F)"
```
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/usr/bin/snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 10.0.0.22 1.3.6.1.4.1.789.1.21.1.2.1.25.1| awk -F : '{print "netapp temp:" $4 }'

ndhail · 2011-11-10 01:04:00 4
Remove a range of lines from a file

Delete range of lines. Ex: Line 6 through 66 in .
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sed -i 6,66d <filename>

icsamples · 2012-02-04 02:29:40 3
Find and sort out folders by size
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du -s $(ls -l | grep '^d' | awk '{print $9}') | sort -nr

j3ffyang · 2012-03-15 09:04:13 3
Backup hidden files and folders in home directory

This will make a backup of all hidden files and folders in the home folder.
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tar zcpvf backup.tgz $(find $HOME -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' -and -not -name '.')

DavidAlfonso · 2012-05-01 17:48:24 19
Encrypt your file using RC4 encryption

At times you will need to safeguard your files. Use OpenSSL's native rc4 encryption to do so. 'nopad' removes padding and 'nosalt' removes random salt being added to the file.
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hashkey=`echo -ne <your-secret> | xxd -p`; openssl rc4 -e -nosalt -nopad -K $hashkey -in myfile.txt -out myfile.enc.txt

vishnu81 · 2012-10-31 12:17:44 6
Recursively unrar in different folders

In order to unrar several files in different subfolders, you just need to launch this command in your parent folder in order to have your files ready for manipulation and already extracted; I did not put anything to delete the original rar files
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for i in `ls` ; do cd $i ; pwd; for f in `ls *.rar` ; do unrar e $f ; done ; cd .. ; done

Avelinux · 2013-03-06 19:23:58 7
Use mplayer to save video streams to a file

1. Copy the url of the streaming video mms://etc... or http://... 2. Open up a terminal. 3. the command 4. Wait for the stream dump.
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mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile stream_video_name url

pascalfares · 2013-12-13 18:28:16 6
Use a tar pipe to copy one directory to another, preserving file permissions.

This version uses subshells.
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(cd olddir && tar -cf - .)|(cd newdir && tar -xpf -)

lavidaportland · 2015-05-24 16:55:01 9
Rename selected files in the directory using ruby
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ruby -e 'Dir.glob("*.txt") { |f| File.rename(f,f.gsub("_t","")) }'

swarzynski · 2015-11-19 09:59:47 14
4chan image batch downloader

Replace thread_link with the link of the thread you want to download images of.
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wget thread_link -qO - | sed 's/\ /\n/g' | grep -e png -e jpg | grep href | sed 's/href\=\"/http:/g' | sed 's/"//g' | uniq | xargs wget

hztrance · 2016-07-16 20:43:33 12
Batch Remove git tags from remote server

We had a number of git tags named similarly to: 2016.12.13.devel.feature 2016.12.14.master.release But we have multiple developers making commits and tags for testing purposes. I wanted to reduce the number of tags that displayed on our cloud hosting server when doing a deployment.
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git ls-remote --tags origin | awk '/^(.*)(\s+)(.*)(YOUR-TAG-SPECIFIC-SEARCH-TERM-HERE)(.*)(-+)(.*)[^{}]$/ {print ":" $2}' | xargs git push origin

shanford · 2017-03-06 21:59:15 20
Get only headers from a website with curl even if it doesn't support HEAD

Some sites running on basic web servers don't support the HEAD request, so using "curl -I" on them doesn't work. This will automatically try "curl -I" at first and if that fails with a 4xx or 5xx status code, it falls back to "curl -i" and prints only the headers from that.
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curlh() { x="$(curl -Is -w '%{http_code}' "$@")"; if [[ "$(tail -n 1 <<< "$x")" == [45]* ]]; then curl -is "$@" | awk '{ if (!NF) { exit }; print }'; else head -n -1 <<< "$x"; fi; }

nyuszika7h · 2017-07-10 12:29:00 17
pc is ghosted?!

scare hell out of user of just amuse by playing random .wav short files
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while true; do locate *.wav | sed "{${RANDOM:1:2}q;d;}" | xargs aplay; sleep 10; done &> /dev/null &

dav23r · 2017-08-25 15:11:54 18
Continuous random string of text
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while true; do sleep .15; head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9; done

allyman17 · 2018-10-10 18:57:34 385
Show temp of all disk

Show temp of all disk with the drivetemp module activate Show Sample Output
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```
WDC WD5000AAKX-0(38°C)
ST500DM002-1BD14(34°C)
WDC WD5000AAKX-0(35°C)
WDC WD80EFZX-68U(37°C)
WDC WD40EFPX-68C(32°C)
WDC WD40EMAZ-51T(31°C)
ST3160811AS     (39°C)
WDC WD40EZRZ-00W(35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (33°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (35°C)
SAMSUNG HD501LJ (36°C)
ST3500620AS     (34°C)
ST500DM002-1BD14(35°C)
WDC WD5000AAKS-6(38°C)
```
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grep -l "drivetemp" /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/name | while read f; do printf "%s(%-.2s°C)\n" "`<${f%/*}/device/model`" "`<${f%/*}/temp1_input`"; done

kokoparkletal · 2023-09-10 18:24:29 80
Flatten a RGBA image onto a white background.

Use graphicsmagick or imagemagick to composite a RGBA image over a flat white background and discard the alpha channel.
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composite -compose Over rgba.png -tile xc:white -geometry `identify rgba.png | sed 's/[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$ .*/\1/g'` rgb-white.png

jimmac · 2009-02-15 19:53:45 8
get IPs with a DHCP lease

You can use that to create a excludefile for nmap, to find hosts, with no DHCP lease in your DHCP range. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.0.73
192.168.0.99
192.168.0.38
192.168.0.77
192.168.0.98
192.168.0.46
192.168.0.13
```
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egrep "^lease" /var/lib/dhcp/db/dhcpd.leases |awk '{ print $2 }'

peshay · 2009-08-14 07:31:00 3
Step#1 Compare the disk spaces first!

Compare the disk space for the new and old drive
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blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sd[ab]

bbelt16ag · 2011-01-08 11:25:54 3
create file

enter our information on the content file. Show Sample Output
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```
empty
```
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FILE=$(tempfile 2>/dev/null || echo .$RANDOM)

s123iva · 2011-08-31 10:39:11 3
Multiple Perl Search/Replace from a file

with a semicolon text file map, apply multiple replace to a single file Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat table-mv.txt
WCFAppRoles;AsAppRoles
WCFDBError;AsDBErrors
WCFFunctions;AsFunctions


$ cat table-mv.txt | perl -pe 's{([^;]+);([^;]+)}{tbl$1/tbl$2}' | perl -pe 's{(\S+)}{perl -i -pe #s/$1/g# xxx.sql}' |  tr "#" "\'"


perl -i -pe 's/tblWCFAppRoles/tblAsAppRoles/g' xxx.sql
perl -i -pe 's/tblWCFDBError/tblAsDBErrors/g' xxx.sql
perl -i -pe 's/tblWCFFunctions/tblAsFunctions/g' xxx.sql
```
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cat table-mv.txt | perl -pe 's{([^;]+);([^;]+)}{tbl$1/tbl$2}' | perl -pe 's{(\S+)}{perl -i -pe #s/$1/g# xxx.sql}' | tr "#" "\'" | bash

hute37 · 2011-10-05 15:55:34 4
Add a custom package repository to apt sources.list

">>" appends to the file ">" replaces the entire file make sure to use ">>" Show Sample Output
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```
none
```
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sudo echo "package url" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Gunni · 2012-05-01 21:32:51 4
Instant threadpool
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cat item_list | xargs -n1 -P<n> process_item

sanchan89 · 2013-03-06 20:25:17 31
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Redirect incoming traffic to SSH, from a port of your choosing

Stuck behind a restrictive firewall at work, but really jonesing to putty home to your linux box for some colossal cave? Goodness knows I was...but the firewall at work blocked all outbound connections except for ports 80 and 443. (Those were wide open for outbound connections.) So now I putty over port 443 and have my linux box redirect it to port 22 (the SSH port) before it routes it internally. So, my specific command would be: $iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 22 Note that I use -A to append this command to the end of the chain. You could replace that with -I to insert it at the beginning (or at a specific rulenum). My linux box is running slackware, with a kernel from circa 2001. Hopefully the mechanics of iptables haven't changed since then. The command is untested under any other distros or less outdated kernels. Of course, the command should be easy enough to adapt to whatever service on your linux box you're trying to reach by changing the numbers (and possibly changing tcp to udp, or whatever). Between putty and psftp, however, I'm good to go for hours of time-killing.

Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage examples: say hello say "hello world" say hello+world

Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.

Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

Check if x509 certificate file and rsa private key match

A x509 certificate and a rsa key file have in common a parameter called modulus, it is a very long hexadecimal number. That value is unique for each certficate / key pair. The command allows to do the check of this pair of values in a script using a great feature of bash. "

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Find Duplicate Files (based on MD5 hash) -- For Mac OS X

This works on Mac OS X using the `md5` command instead of `md5sum`, which works similarly, but has a different output format. Note that this only prints the name of the duplicates, not the original file. This is handy because you can add `| xargs rm` to the end of the command to delete all the duplicates while leaving the original.

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