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I wanted to play a song from the shell and get the shell back, I also dont want to store the file if it is not needed. edit, not sure if I need to mention it... killall vlc to stop it Show Sample Output

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wget http://somesite.com/somestream.pls; cvlc somestream.pls&sleep 5; rm somestream.pls*

tomjrace · 2011-08-04 19:24:18 3

Slow down IO heavy process

compare to alternative : - directly tests the -STOP of the process to continue or stop loop, - background operator should be set (or not) at the call of the function For extension i suggest a slowPID() based on kill like above and a slowCMD based on killall.
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slow () { [ -n $1 ] && while kill -STOP $1; do sleep 1; kill -CONT $1; sleep 1; done }

makidoko · 2012-05-16 19:16:50 3
Store mp3 playlist on variable and play with mpg123

On my music directory, I create variable that contains all mp3s files, then I play them with mpg123. -C options enable terminal control key, s for stop, p for pause, f for forward to next song.
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PLAYLIST=$(ls -1) ; mpg123 -C $PLAYLIST

servermanaged · 2009-03-19 17:20:28 12
Get just the IP for a hostname

Get just the IP address for a given hostname. For best results, make this a function in your shell rc file so that it can be used for things like traceroute: Titus:~$ traceroute `getip foo.com` traceroute to 64.94.125.138 (64.94.125.138), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets Show Sample Output
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```
Titus:~$ host foo.com|grep "has address "|cut -d" " -f4
64.94.125.138
```
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host foo.com|grep " has address "|cut -d" " -f4

dinomite · 2010-10-29 17:01:37 4
Find a process by name and automatically kill it
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ps aux | grep name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

unixmonkey84604 · 2014-11-11 09:19:24 8
Make a statistic about the lines of code

Have wc work on each file then add up the total with awk; get a 43% speed increase on RHEL over using "-exec cat|wc -l" and a 67% increase on my Ubuntu laptop (this is with 10MB of data in 767 files).
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find . -type f -name '*.c' -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

arcege · 2009-09-04 15:51:30 6
Static Yubikey 2.2 Password Using Programming Slot 1

By default, slot 1 is used for OTP purposes and validates against the Yubikey servers. Running the command above will replace that. If you have a Yubikey 2 or above, you can change -1 to -2 and program the second slot with a strong static key.
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ykpersonalize -1 -ostatic-ticket -ostrong-pw1 -ostrong-pw2

switchrodeo720 · 2011-05-13 04:00:52 4
IP:PORT to IP:PORT:COUNTRY using geoiplookup

take a list of IP:PORT and output IP:PORT:COUNTRY Show Sample Output
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```
91.191.161.55:35828:Germany
62.212.73.107:54782:Netherlands
83.149.126.84:40972:Netherlands
78.159.112.45:50106:Germany
91.191.166.96:36133:Germany
62.212.73.107:36148:Netherlands
```
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for IP in `cat ip.txt|awk -F: '{print $1}'`; do geoiplookup -f /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat $IP|awk -F, '{print $2}'>>out.txt; done; paste -d ":" ip.txt out.txt>zoom.txt

woben2 · 2011-08-05 09:26:17 3

Traffic stat on ethernet interface

Traffic details on the Ethernet interface. Show Sample Output

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ethtool -S eth0

rockon · 2009-03-01 10:25:46 5

Set default "New Page" as HTML in TextMate

When you press "cmd+n" in TextMate, you can have "HTML" language as default document format... You can also define other languages too. You need to know the UUID of your language bundle.
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defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakDefaultLanguage 17994EC8-6B1D-11D9-AC3A-000D93589AF6

vigo · 2009-10-20 07:10:34 4
remove files and directories with acces time older than a given time

Deletes files older than "n" minutes ago. Note the plus sign before the n is important and means "greater than n". This is more precise than atime, since atime is specified in units of days. NOTE that you can use amin/atime, mmin/mtime, and cmin/ctime for access, modification, and change times, respectively. Also, using -delete is faster than piping to xargs, since no piping is needed.
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find -amin +[n] -delete

TeacherTiger · 2009-11-20 17:15:28 4
List your installed Firefox extensions

1.) my profile ends with $USER not with .default 2.) only grep for the first occurrence because some extensions have the translated name also inside the install.rdf Show Sample Output
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```
 grep -hIr -m 1 :name ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.$USER/extensions | tr '<>=' '"""' | cut -f3 -d'"' | sort -u

Adblock Plus
Firebug
It's All Text!
lori (Life-of-request info)
ScrapBook
Secure Login
Session Manager
User Agent Switcher
```
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grep -hIr -m 1 :name ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.$USER/extensions | tr '<>=' '"""' | cut -f3 -d'"' | sort -u

new_user · 2010-05-18 14:49:44 5
Quickly check a device in a LVM volume group against multipath

This is an easy way to quickly get a status for a device in multipath on SLES systems, as long as the server is configured based on Novell's standards, where multipathed disks are referred to by /dev/disk/by-... tree. Make sure to replace name_of_vg with your Volume Group name.
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pvscan | awk '/name_of_vg/ {print $2}' | sed 's/[-|/|]/ /g' | cut -d " " -f7

slashdot · 2010-06-22 16:34:42 3
Get just the IP for a hostname
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gethostip -d hostname

ashayh · 2010-10-29 18:54:46 3
Change MySQL Pager For Nicer Output

Instead of dumping the entire query to the screen, it will use 'less -S' to handle pagination. This means you can move back and forward through the result set, and instead of wrapping rows at screen boundaries, the table will extend off the screen, and can be scrolled left and right with arrow keys.
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In MySQL client, \P less -S

maxmanders · 2011-01-19 09:44:43 3
Setup Vim environment for USACO coding

1. Get name of task by task=$(basename "$(pwd)") 2. Check whether "$task.c" exists as a file 3. open "$task.c", "$task.in", "task.out" in vim with such layout. ------------------------------- | | $task.in | | | | |$task.c |-----------------| | | $task.out | | | | -------------------------------
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alias viaco='task="$(basename "$(pwd)")"; if [ -f "$task.c" ]; then vi -c "set mouse=n" -c "set autoread" -c "vsplit $task.out" -c "split $task.in" -c "wincmd l" -c "wincmd H" $task.c; fi'

yolila · 2011-05-13 13:35:02 8
tiny proxy in shell to receive on port and write on unix socket
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mk

adimania · 2014-07-19 18:13:52 7
Partition a new disk as all one partition tagged as "LInux LVM"

This is a bit hacky, but if you're setting up a bunch of new LUNs, it can save a bunch of time. Also check out sfdisk. The fdisk will fail if, for example, a partition table already exists.
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echo -e "n\np\n1\n\n\nt\n8e\nw" | fdisk /dev/sdX

sud0er · 2009-10-20 16:21:54 5
tiny proxy in shell to receive on port and write on unix socket

* Make a FIFO file named replypipe * listen on 1234 * pass the request to unix socket * unix socket will reply to replypipe * replypipe will write reply to the client
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mknod replypipe p; nc -k -lp 1234 < replypipe| nc -U /var/run/mysocket.sock > replypipe

adimania · 2014-07-19 18:17:35 7
rename file to *.old

This command renames the file 'filename' to 'filename.old' using shell expansion. Same as typing "mv filename filename.old".
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mv filename{,.old}

BELzEBUB · 2018-03-08 12:41:18 27
extract links from a google results page saved as a file

From a saved page of google search results, split out all of the links for the results. Useful for creating apache rewrite rules from.
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gsed -e :a -e 's/$<\/[^>]*>$/\1\n/g;s/$<br>$/\1\n/g' page2.txt | sed -n '/<cite>/p;s/<cite>$.*$<\/cite>/\1/g' >> output

shrimphead · 2009-02-06 12:45:20 12
Launch a Java .jar App

Use this to make a launcher for Java apps ( .jar files ) such as with jdownloader
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java -jar /path/to/filename.jar

Bonster · 2011-04-01 05:44:56 15
Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)
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ls -1 | xargs ruby -e'puts ARGV.shuffle'

jacaetevha · 2014-01-17 17:42:08 7
rows2columns

joins multiple lines to create single line with comma separated values. for example if we have an email addresses one per line (copy&paste from spreadsheet) it will oputput one line with comman separated addresses to put it to email client. Show Sample Output
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email@number.one, email@number.one, email@number.one, ...
```
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perl -le 'print join ", ", map { chomp; $_ } <>'

jozef · 2009-02-06 12:50:43 14
Autofind alive hosts on subnet upon connect

This is helpful if you connect to several networks with different subnets such as 192 networks, 10 networks, etc. Cuts first three octets of ip from ifconfig command and runs nmap ping scan on that subnet. Replace wlan0 with your interface. Assumes class c network, if class b use: cut -d "." -f 1-2 and change nmap command accordingly.
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dhclient wlan0 && sbnt=$(ifconfig wlan0 |grep "inet addr" |cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d "." -f 1-3) && nmap $sbnt.0/24 -sP

wltj · 2010-06-22 21:00:29 6
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Function to output an ASCII character given its decimal equivalent

LDAP search to query an ActiveDirectory server

These are the parameters to ldapsearch (from ldap-utils in Ubuntu), for searching for the record for Joe Blogg's user. sAMAccountName is the LDAP field that ActiveDirectory uses to store the user name. 'DOMAIN\Joe.Bloggs' where "DOMAIN" is the the active directory domain. Othewise you could use "CN=Joe.Bloggs,DC=example,DC=com" instead of "DOMAIN\Joe.Bloggs"

The command used by applications in OS X to determine whether a plist is "good". from Ed Marczak.

The check an entire folder is a one-liner: plutil -lint * | grep -v OK$ from Ed Marczak

move contents of the current directory to the parent directory, then remove current directory.

I think this is less resource consuming than the previous examples

Silently deletes lines containing a specific string in a bunch of files

This command will find all occurrences of one or more patterns in a collection of files and will delete every line matching the patterns in every file

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Lists installed kernels

a fast way to repeat output a byte

the speed is about 500MB/s on my machine. i think it's fast enough to output not too many bytes. while a C program may output 1GB per sencond on my machine. if the size is not the power of 512,you may change the bs and count in dd.

Compress a file or directory keeping the owner and permissions

Multiple variable assignments from command output in BASH

It's quite easy to capture the output of a command and assign it in a shell's variable: $ day=$(date +%d) $ month=$(date +%m) But, what if we want to perform the same task with just one program invocation? Here comes the power of eval! date(1) outputs a string like "day=29; month=07; year=11" (notice the semicolons I added on purpose at date's custom output) which is a legal shell line. This like is then parsed and executed by the shell once again with the help of eval. Just setting 3 variables! Inspired by LinuxJournal's column "Dave Taylor's Work the Shell".

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