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0dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Status}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n | grep installed
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This will crop each page of the PDF by 10mm left, 11cm bottom, 22pts right, and nothing from the top.
0pdfjam --clip true --trim '10mm 11cm 22pts 0' m.pdf -
0netstat -nr|egrep -v "Routing|Interface|lo0"|awk '{print $5}'|sort -u| while read l; do ifconfig $l ; echo " Station Addr: `lanscan -ia|grep "$l "|cut -d ' ' -f 1`" ; done
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0alias 'gst'=git status
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0pgrep -f /usr/sbin/httpd | awk '{print"-p " $1}' | xargs strace
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to find and cut between to strings with grep and cut Show Sample Output
0echo '<div class="Btn">link to open </div>' | grep -oP '(?<="Btn").*?(?= </div>)' | cut -d ">" -f2 -
0<ctrl+a>
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This command sent the Python version to a file. This is intended to be used in scripts. For some reason, simple redirections didn't work with "python -V" Show Sample Output
0echo "$(python -V 2>&1)" > file -
0ls **/fred*~*junk*/*
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For all of the jpgs in a directory, determine their size and if below a threshold remove them forcefully.
0for i in ~/Desktop/Personal/Wallpapers/*.jpg ; { size=$((`identify -format "%wx%h" $i | sed 's/x/*/'`)) ; if [[ $size -lt 800001 ]] then ; rm -f "$i" ; fi; } -
0rsync --delete -az -e 'ssh -c blowfish -i /your/.ssh/backup_key -ax' /path/to/backup remote-host:/dest/path/
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0while read line; do pais=$(whois "$line" | grep -E '[Cc]ountry') echo -n "IP=$line Pais=$pais" && echo done <listaip
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0(pv -n long_running > output) 2>&1 | zenity --progress
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If you have a lot of hosts in /etc/hosts this would be very useful. Anyone have any more concise examples?
0complete -W "$(sed 's/;.*//;' /etc/hosts | awk ' /^[[:digit:]]/ {$1 = "";print tolower($0)}')" ssh -
0TEST_UUID=$(blkid /dev/sda6 | sed -rn "s/^.*UUID=\"([a-z0-9]{8}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{12})\".*/\1/p")
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Grabs your external public IP. Show Sample Output
0curl icanhazip.com -
simply change extension for others programming languages
0for FILE in $(svn status | grep ? | grep .php); do svn add $FILE; done -
0ifconfig | grep "inet" | grep "broadcast" | awk '{print $2}'
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0ls -rt | tail -n 1
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Display the holidays in December and January for UK/England (2012/2013). Most Linux distros have "gcal" in their package manager system. If not, it is available here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcal Show Sample Output
0gcal -K -q GB_EN December/2012-January/2013 # Holidays for Dec/2012 and Jan/2013 with week numbers -
if you have a capture file *.eth, and ajp protocol is in use on port 9009, you can paste the above command. You can change the fiile and port name Show Sample Output
0tshark -r *.eth -S -R "ajp13" -d tcp.port==9009,ajp13 -s 0 -l -V | awk '/Apache JServ/ {p=1} /^ *$/ {p=0;printf "\n"} (p){printf "%s\n", $0} /^(Frame|Internet Pro|Transmission Control)/ {print $0}' -
cut log from row 100 to row 150.
0cat -n install | head -n 150 | tac | head -n 50 | tac -
find the uptime and convert in minutes, works with AIX and Linux too Show Sample Output
0uptime | awk -F ',' ' {print $1" "$2}'|awk ' {print $3" "$4" "$5}' | sed '1,$s/:/ /' | awk ' {if ($4 =="user") print $1*60 + $2;else if ($2=="mins") print $1;else print $1*24*60 + $2*60 + $3}' -
0pactl list sinks | grep -q Mute:.no && pactl set-sink-mute 0 1 || pactl set-sink-mute 0 0
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This provides better, but not perfect, distribution, and it works for 2^32 ≤ X ≤ 2^64. (A robust distribution requires iteration/recursion and an indeterminate amount of randomness.)
0(od -An -t u8 -N8 </dev/urandom; echo X '* 2 64^/1+p') | dc - ‹ First < 443 444 445 446 447 > Last ›
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