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save a manpage to plaintext file

Output manpage as plaintext using cat as pager: man -P cat commandname And redirect its stdout into a file: man -P cat commandname > textfile.txt Example: man -P cat ls > man_ls.txt
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man -P cat ls > man_ls.txt

alvinx · 2009-07-27 13:09:24 4
Create x11vnc server authentication file

This will generate a password file to use with x11vnc server, obviously you should replace "your_new_password" with the password you want to use and the path where you want to store it.
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x11vnc -storepasswd your_new_apssword ~/my_vnc_pass

JulijanAndjelic · 2009-11-12 21:28:32 3
a2p converts awk scripts to perl programs
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a2p -F:

octopus · 2010-04-12 08:49:44 3
A way to run commands on a remote computer to be displayed on the remote computer

This is a simple solution to running a remote program on a remote computer on the remote display through ssh. 1. Create an empty 'commander' file in the directory where you intend on running these commands. 2. Run the command 3. Hop on another computer and ssh in to the PC where you ran the command 4. cd to the directory where the 'commander' file is. 5. Test it by doing the following: echo "xeyes" > commander 6. If it worked properly, then xeyes will popup on the remote computer. Combined with my other one liner, you can place those in some start-up scripts and be able to screw with your wife/daughter/siblings, w/e by either launching programs or sending notifications(my other one liner). Also, creates a log file named comm_log in working directory that logs all commands ran.
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while :;do if [ ! $(ls -l commander |cut -d ' ' -f5) -eq 0 ]; then echo "Ran command: $(less commander) @ $(date +%D) $(date +%r)" >> comm_log;"$(less commander)";> commander;fi;done

evil · 2010-06-15 01:20:27 4
Create a tunnel from a remote server to the local machine using a specific source port

It connects to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port YYY, using a source port of "srcport" and binds the tunnel on local port "locport". Then you can connect to localhost:locport. With this command it's possible to connect to servers using a specific source port (useful when a firewall check the source port). Because of the connections starting from the same source port, this works well only for the first connection (for example, works well with SSH and bad with HTTP because of multiple requests). * It requires socat Show Sample Output
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```
cyrus@OMGWTF:~$ socat TCP-LISTEN:3333,fork TCP:192.168.2.2:80,sourceport=12345
```
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socat TCP-LISTEN:locport,fork TCP:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YYY,sourceport=srcport

cyrusza · 2010-11-22 13:24:33 4
How many lines in your PHP project without comments

An advanced possibility to count the lines of code like in #8394 Show Sample Output
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```
andre@klaus:~/CVS/unitime/unitimeweb/unitime$ find . -type f -name '*.php' | xargs cat | sed -re ':top /\/\*.*\*\// { s/\/\*.*\*\///g ; t top }; /\/\*/ { N ; b top }' | awk '$0 !~ /^[\t[:space:]]*($|(\/\/)|(#))/' | wc -l
419064
andre@klaus:~/CVS/unitime/unitimeweb/unitime$
```
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find . -type f -name '*.php' | xargs cat | sed -re ':top /\/\*.*\*\// { s/\/\*.*\*\///g ; t top }; /\/\*/ { N ; b top }' | awk '$0 !~ /^[\t[:space:]]*($|(\/\/)|(#))/' | wc -l

andrehgw · 2011-05-05 06:12:34 30
Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

This combines @zurvollenstunde's hourly tweets and the "n minutes ago" from Twitter search. Show Sample Output
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```
6:23
```
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curl -s "http://search.twitter.com/search?from=zurvollenstunde&rpp=1" | grep -E '(Es ist jetzt|ago)' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/[^[:digit:]]//g' | xargs | sed -e 's#\ #:#'

torrid · 2011-06-18 04:27:06 4
progress bar for cp

while [ $orig_size -gt $dest_size ] ; do dest_size=$(stat -c %s $2) pct=$((( 69 * $dest_size ) / $orig_size )) echo -en "\r[" for j in `seq 1 $pct`; do echo -n "=" done echo -n ">" for j in `seq $pct 68`; do echo -n "." done echo -n "] " echo -n $((( 100 * $pct ) / 69 )) echo -n "%" done Show Sample Output
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```
[====>...........] 40%
```
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progr

altern · 2011-07-27 15:17:51 10
Paste hardware list (hwls) in html format into pastehtml.com directly from console and return URI.

Pipe the output of any command to pastehtml.com in text format Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat test.file |pastebin
http://pastehtml.com/view/b9sge3in3.txt
```
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$ pastebin(){ curl -s -S --data-urlencode "txt=$(cat)" "http://pastehtml.com/upload/create?input_type=txt&result=address";echo;}

kadu · 2011-10-07 13:32:25 3
check a list of domains registered on godaddy

Found on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55520.0
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for i in `wget -O url|grep '<a rel="nofollow"'|grep http|sed 's|.*<a rel="nofollow" class="[^"]\+" href="[^"]*https\?://$[^/]\+$[^"]*">[^<]\+</a>.*|\1|'`;do if test -n "$(whois $i|grep -i godaddy)";then echo $i uses GoDaddy;fi;sleep 20;done

coinbitsdotcom · 2011-12-24 19:12:18 5
change directory permissions whithout changing file permissions recursive
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sudo find foldername -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ";"

megger · 2012-03-20 21:24:36 4
Empty a file
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touch filename

CAMOBAP · 2012-09-04 09:39:47 4
Command to get list of all existing programming languages from Wikipedia article

Requirements: curl, grep, awk, internet connection with access to wikipedia Loaded page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages If you can make shorter version of this listgetter, you are welcome to paste it here :) Show Sample Output
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```
R (programming language)
R++
Racket (programming language)
RAPID
Rapira
Ratfiv
Ratfor
Rc
REBOL
Core War
REFAL
Reia (programming language)
Revolution (programming language)
Rex (language)
REXX
Rlab
ROOP (programming language)
IBM RPG
RPL (programming language)
Robot Battle
RTL/2
Ruby (programming language)
Rust (programming language)
```
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curl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages | grep "<li>" | awk -F"title=" '{ print $2 }' | awk -F\" '{ print $2 }'

sxiii · 2013-01-09 21:40:11 11
convert .ppk file to .ssh file

1.use puttygen command convert .ppk file to .ssh file
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puttygen my_ssh_key.ppk -O private-openssh -o my_openssh_key.ssh

motopig · 2013-03-10 12:35:31 4
create tar.gz on solaris
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tar cfp - file-to-be-archived | gzip > archive.tar.gz

vaaclav · 2013-04-30 08:06:16 7
Find used fileextensions in a project

When trying to find an error in a hosted project it's interesting to find out how the source is organized: Are there .inc files? Or .php files only? Or .xml files that probably contain translated texts? Show Sample Output
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```
      1 ori
      1 swf
      1 ttf
      1 zip
      2 txt
      4 gz
      8 css
     10 ico
     27 tpl
     28 html
    169 js
    469 php
    590 gif
```
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find . -type f | perl -ne 'chop(); $ext = substr($_, rindex($_, ".") + 1); print "$ext\n";' | sort | uniq --count | sort -n

t3o · 2013-09-26 07:45:19 7
Count music files in each directory
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for i in */; do echo $(find $i -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*\.(mp3|ogg|wav|flac)" | wc -l) $i ; done

mindfuckup · 2013-12-22 14:33:56 7
Get all files with a certain extension linked to on a page

Change *.ext to the appropriate extension
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wget -r -nd -q -A "*.ext" http://www.example.org/

phracker · 2014-07-04 18:28:07 7
list files and folders
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ls -l

cano · 2015-02-08 21:05:56 8
access.log to csv
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awk '{ agent=""; for(i=12; i<=NF; i++){agent=agent $i" ";} print "\""$1"\",\""$4" "$5"\","$6" "$7" "$8","$9","$10","$11","agent }' access.log

miramir · 2016-06-07 11:04:19 35
Let your computer read ls for you instead of reading it on your own

Pipes the output of ls to espeak Also works nice with fortune fortune | espeak
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ls | espeak

BigZ · 2016-08-02 17:54:39 13
Copy a file over SSH without SCP
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cat file | ssh user@remotehost "cat > file"

luckyone777 · 2017-07-26 20:36:02 18
Encode string with NOTs
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echo -e 'import ctypes\nimport sys\nf="/etc/passwd"\nfor i in f:\n\tsys.stdout.write(hex(ctypes.c_uint8(~ord(i)).value)+",")\nsys.stdout.write("\\n")' | python

sinkmanu · 2017-10-12 11:19:05 19
Create unique IP and count list of hits against URL in Pound LB logs, redirect to file
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cat *pound* | grep someURL.com | awk '{print $7}'| uniq -c | sort -bgr >> uniqueIPwC.txt

MannWare · 2017-11-16 20:18:55 18

sched && syscall app state awareness basics

example or test, basic awareness on app state, mostly for copy-paste reasons, requires auditd (ausyscall), rekt echoing (everything here is rekt) Show Sample Output

pgrep -f bash | while read PMATCH;do echo "$PMATCH # $(grep -e nr_involuntary_switches /proc/$PMATCH/sched|tr -d '\040\011\012\015') # [sysc]:$(ausyscall $(cat /proc/$PMATCH/syscall|cut -d' ' -f1))"; done;

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Send an email from the terminal when job finishes

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Convert your favorite image in xpm for using in grub

* size must be 640?480 pixels * only has 14 colors * save it in XPM format Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/grubimg.xpm make sure for your path name and hard disk

Quick HTML image gallery from folder contents

Setting: You have a lot of jpg files in a directory. Maybe your public_html folder which is readable on the net because of Apache's mod_userdir. All those files from the current folder will be dropped into a file called gallery.html as image tags that can be viewed within a web browser locally or or over the Internet. Original: $find . -iname "*.jpg" -exec echo "" >> gallery.html \;

List all commands present on system

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"

Function that outputs dots every second until command completes

Very useful in shell scripts because you can run a task nicely in the background using job-control and output progress until it completes. Here's an example of how I use it in backup scripts to run gpg in the background to encrypt an archive file (which I create in this same way). $! is the process ID of the last run command, which is saved here as the variable PI, then sleeper is called with the process id of the gpg task (PI), and sleeper is also specified to output : instead of the default . every 3 seconds instead of the default 1. So a shorter version would be sleeper $!; The wait is also used here, though it may not be needed on your system. $ echo ">>> ENCRYPTING SQL BACKUP" $ gpg --output archive.tgz.asc --encrypt archive.tgz 1>/dev/null & $ PI=$!; sleeper $PI ":" 3; wait $PI && rm archive.tgz &>/dev/null Previously to get around the $! not always being available, I would instead check for the existance of the process ID by checking if the directory /proc/$PID existed, but not everyone uses proc anymore. That version is currently the one at http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html but I plan on upgrading to this new version soon.

Find usb device

I often use it to find recently added ou removed device, or using find in /dev, or anything similar. Just run the command, plug the device, and wait to see him and only him

Multi-thread any command

For instance: $ find . -type f -name '*.wav' -print0 |xargs -0 -P 3 -n 1 flac -V8 will encode all .wav files into FLAC in parallel. Explanation of xargs flags: -P [max-procs]: Max number of invocations to run at once. Set to 0 to run all at once [potentially dangerous re: excessive RAM usage]. -n [max-args]: Max number of arguments from the list to send to each invocation. -0: Stdin is a null-terminated list. I use xargs to build parallel-processing frameworks into my scripts like the one here: http://pastebin.com/1GvcifYa

Delete empty directories

Recursively delete empty directories. Use with care.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

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