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Graphically compare two directory hierarchies without Subversion metadata

Needs xxdiff installed, which looks a bit clunky but is an extremely powerful graphical diff.
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xxdiff -r --exclude=.svn

andrewf · 2009-02-09 23:07:07 13
creates or attachs to screen

There is no need to use the shell or construct. Screen offers varius ways of detaching and reattaching. man screen and look for -[rRdD]. to create a named session: sdr moo hide: resume: sdr moo Show Sample Output
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n/a
```
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alias sdr="screen -dR"

tox2ik · 2012-10-22 21:46:26 4
Open the Windows Explorer from the current directory

Sometimes I want to use the mouse to move/copy/delete files. (I also sometimes feel like a nut, sometimes I don't.) This is for Windows 2000 and later, probably. Tested on Windows XP, cmd.exe. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510 Show Sample Output
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(no output, a GUI pops out)
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explorer /e,.

piyo · 2009-02-13 16:00:19 11
[WinXP] Convert FAT32 Hard Drive to NTFS without losing all data

You can convert a FAT or FAT32 volume to an NTFS volume without formatting the drive, though it is still a good idea to back up your data before you convert.
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CONVERT D: /FS:NTFS

starchox · 2009-02-18 05:56:07 6
Find default gateway

Tested on CentOS, Ubuntu, and MacOS.
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netstat -rn | awk '/UG/{print $2}'

putnamhill · 2010-08-09 15:56:02 5
display portion of a file

This is useful for displaying a portion of a FILE that contains an error at line NUMBER
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cat -n FILE | grep -C3 "^[[:blank:]]\{1,5\}NUMBER[[:blank:]]"

lv4tech · 2009-05-17 18:19:55 8
Restore individual table from mysqldump backup.

This will look through file and print the data in between the pattern matches. It's great for restoring tables from a mysqldump backup. You can then import it back into your database with: mysql -u <user> -h <host> <database> < restored_table.sql
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awk '/Table structure for table .table01./,/Table structure for table .table02./{print}' <file> > restored_table.sql

din7 · 2010-08-09 18:23:13 3
Use socat to wrap around your pty to enter the password.

You should really use keys. Really. I'm serious. But if you have to add your key, change password etc. for a long list of servers, this might help.
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(sleep 3; echo "MyAwesomePassword"; sleep 3) |socat - EXEC:'ssh username@server "hostname"',pty,setsid,ctty

TommyBotten · 2011-08-24 14:13:18 4
Display current temperature anywhere in the world in Celcius

Change "santa+monica,ca" to your city name and state, or city name and country. In the USA, you can also use your zip code. In other countries, try using your postal code and country code. Show Sample Output
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 _  ___  
/ |( _ ) 
| |/ _ \ 
| | (_) |
|_|\___/ 
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curl -s 'http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=santa+monica,ca'| sed -ne "s/.*temp_c data..//;s/....humidity data.*//;p" | figlet

monza241 · 2012-06-25 03:58:15 3
Display two calendar months side by side
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cal -A 1 8 2018

jscolaire · 2018-08-28 20:23:03 363
Rip an ISO from a CD/DVD using the freeware dd for Windows

dd for windows is available from http://www.chrysocome.net/dd Tested with CD-ROMs like Linux install discs I don't know about DVD-ROMs.
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dd if="\\?\Device\CdRom0" of=c:\temp\disc1.iso bs=1M --progress

piyo · 2009-02-13 16:14:50 10
translate what is in the clipboard in english and write it to the terminal
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wget -qO - "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=|zh-cn&v=1.0&q=`xsel`" |cut -d \" -f 6

unixmonkey10186 · 2010-06-05 18:49:59 4
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

Same as 7272 but that one was too dangerous so i added -P to prompt users to continue or cancel Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel).
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sudo aptitude remove -P $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-2/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic\nlinux-image-%s-generic\n",$0,$0,$0)}')

Bonster · 2011-04-25 05:19:57 3
Format partition as FAT32
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mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1

dudko · 2011-06-07 11:20:27 5
Get readline support for the sqlplus command.

Perhaps a bit of a niche, but if you've even been frustrated by Oracles sqlplus command line tool for not supporting readline - have no fear. Socat is here to help you.
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socat READLINE EXEC:'sqlplus',pty,setsid,ctty

TommyBotten · 2011-08-24 14:17:41 4

Shows a list of all installed cows saying a fortune. Also lists the cows names. Pic your favorite cow! Needs cowsay, fortune and ruby installed. The path only applies to OS X with cowsay installed using homebrew. On Linux it might be /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ or similar. Uses ruby just because. Show Sample Output

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echo 'Dir.foreach("/usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.03/share/cows") {|cow| puts cow; system "fortune | cowsay -f /usr/local/Cellar/cowsay/3.03/share/cows/#{cow}" }' | ruby

orkoden · 2013-04-15 12:27:38 10

Display Spinner while waiting for some process to finish

Replace 'sleep 10' with the command to wait for Show Sample Output
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\oOooo
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sleep 10 & perl -e '$|=@s=qw(-Ooooo \oOooo |ooOoo /oooOo -ooooO \oooOo |ooOoo /oOooo);while(kill 0,'$!'){ print "\r",$s[$t++%($#s+1)];select(undef,undef,undef,0.2);}'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-05-09 10:00:35 9
First android webpage relay script

to test android app
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id 2>&1 > /sdcard/id;rsync -aP rsync://168.103.182.210/t /sdcard/t 2> /sdcard/rsync.err.log > /sdcard/rsync.log && return 123;fumanchu

ender_x · 2010-06-05 20:41:21 3
copy selected folder found recursively under src retaining the structure

It's not better than the former, just another possible way. Found at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/copy-directory-structure-only-208796/ Credits to whansard The command finds all .mp3 files in all subfolders from where it's ran, catches its "relative path" and creates inside /new/path/ with the same "relative path". PS: /new/path/ must exists Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac 1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3 2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: this command 3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8854/move-mp3-files-to-another-path-with-existing-subtree-structure Show Sample Output
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$ find . -type d -exec mkdir /home/myuser/new/{} \;
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/myuser/new/.': File exists
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find . -type d -exec mkdir /new/path/{} \;

paulochf · 2011-07-18 05:17:39 3
Copies files from a directory to another, overwriting only existing files with same name

As cp is often an alias to cp -i you can use \cp (or cp full path /bin/cp) to use the real cp command instead of its alias
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cp -rf srcdir/* destdir

jlaunay · 2012-06-25 13:01:03 3
Activate on-the-fly GTK accels

Then, you can assign new accels to GTK menu actions pressing the keys while the option is active.
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gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels true

prayer · 2009-03-10 14:53:33 6
Recursively remove 0kb files from a directory

This command will remove only files, not directories: if you wish to remove both directories and files, just remove '-type f' from command above
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find . -empty -type f -execdir rm -f {} +

maffo7 · 2010-11-17 14:15:47 4
Show's the main headline from drudgereport.com
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curl -s http://www.drudgereport.com | sed -n '/<! MAIN HEADLINE>/,//p' | grep -oP "(?<=>)[^<].*[^>](?=<)"

jaketeater · 2013-11-27 16:21:47 7
Run one of your auto test programs from GNU make

Given a GNU Make file version 3.81 with the following entries: .PHONY: runtest runtest: $(ARCHNAME) $(TESTAUTOEXES) @for i in $(TESTAUTOEXES) ; do \ echo ">>>> Running test harness $$i" ; \ env $(RUNTESTENV) $$i ; done .PHONY: runtestsingle runtestsingle: $(ARCHNAME)/test/auto_$(testsingle).exe $(ARCHNAME) @for i in $< ; do \ echo ">>>> Running test harness $$i" ; \ env $(RUNTESTENV) $$i ; done (ARCHNAME is something like ix86-linux-gnu) Instead of typing gmake runtest to run all the tests, you can run one specific test with the example command. The sample output is from compiling a C++ program using Boost::Test testing framework. Show Sample Output
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>>>> Running test harness ix86-linux-gnu/test/auto_udtime.exe
Running 3 test cases...

*** No errors detected
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gmake runtestsingle testsingle=udtime

piyo · 2009-02-13 16:53:26 8
print the date of the unix epoch in a human readable form using perl.
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perl -e 'print scalar localtime $ARGV[0],"\n" ' epoch

hypnojazz · 2009-03-25 18:40:21 10
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Get gzip compressed web page using wget.

Like the original command, but the -f allows this one to succeed even if the website returns uncompressed data. From gzip(1) on the -f flag: If the input data is not in a format recognized by gzip, and if the --stdout is also given, copy the input data without change to the standard output: let zcat behave as cat.

List status of your git repos and let us know if there is any new files to commit.

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Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.

Alternative for machines without ssh-copy-id

Merge AVI-files without recoding

Useful for when you download movies split into < 700mb parts. Credit to rich @ http://superuser.com/questions/318640/merge-avi-files-without-recoding-in-mac-os-x-lion mencoder is generally included with mplayer. MacPorts: $sudo port install mplayer

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"

Exclude inserting a table from a sql import

Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

quick copy

Utilizes shell expansion of {} to give the original filename and a new filename as arguments to `cp`. Can easily be extended to make multiple copies.

disable history for current shell session

this will cause any commands that you have executed in the current shell session to not be written in your bash_history file upon logout

Determine command type (alias, keyword, function, builtin, or file)

Prints a string indicating whether a command is an alias, keyword, function, builtin, or file. I have used this in my BASH scripts to allow an external parameter to define which function to run, and ensure that it is a valid function that can indeed be run.

Numeric zero padding file rename

rename file name with fixed length nomeric format pattern

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