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-1cat /etc/passwd | wc -l
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This helps quickly get information for each disk that is seemingly having hardware issues.
-1iostat -En $(iostat -en|grep c#t|awk '$2 > 0 {print $NF}') -
Other solutions that involve doing
du -sx /*are incomplete because they will still descend other top-level filesystems are that mounted directly at "/" because the * expands to explicitly include all files and directories in "/", and du will still traverse them even with -x because you asked it to by supplying the directory name as a parameter (indirectly via "*"). Show Sample Output-1for a in /*; do mountpoint -q -- "$a" || du -shx "$a"; done | sort -h -
release upgrades are major upgrades as from 8.04 to 8.10 or from 8.10 to 9.04 update-manager-core must be installed:
sudo apt-get install update-manager-corein some cases you must edit '/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades' and set 'Prompt=normal'-1do-release-upgrade -
-1recoll -t -q "keyword" | grep message/rfc822 | sed -s 's,^.*\('$MAILDIR'[^]]*\)\].*$,\"\1\",' | xargs ln -sft $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/
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You WILL have problems if the files have the same name. Use cases: consolidate music library and unify photos (especially if your camera separates images by dates). After running the command and verifying if there was no name issues, you can use
ls -d */ | sed -e 's/^/\"/g' -e 's/$/\"/g' | xargs rm -rto remove now empty subdirectories.-1ls -d */* | sed -e 's/^/\"/g' -e 's/$/\"/g' | xargs mv -t $(pwd) -
Us dc instead of bc. RPN FTW!!! Show Sample Output
-1dc -e "1 1 + p" -
These should be a little faster since they don't have to spawn grep.
-1ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f -iname "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d -iname "$1"; } -
-1gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=merged.pdf -dBATCH `ls | grep foo`
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-1perl -e 'print 1+1 ."\n";'
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-1echo | socat -u - file:/tmp/swapfile,create,largefile,seek=10000000000000
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The thunderbird message datastores get corrupt some times causing random failures, compaction to fail and general suck in thunderbird. Removing them causes thunderbird to rebuild the indexes and makes things quick again.
-1find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs rm {} \; -
-1fdupes -rdN $folder
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-1openssl pkcs8 -inform DER -nocrypt -in [priv key] -out [pem priv key]
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This command uses the top voted "Get your external IP" command from commandlinefu.com to get your external IP address. Use this and you will always be using the communities favourite command. This is a tongue-in-cheek entry and not recommended for actual usage.
-1eval $(curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/external/ZXh0ZXJuYWw=/sort-by-votes/plaintext|sed -n '/^# Get your external IP address$/{n;p;q}') -
a pkcs8 key will have integer 00 at offset 4 and an rsaEncryption object at offset 9
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In Mac OS 9, the "New Folder" keyboard shortcut was Command+N, but in Mac OS X this was changed to "New Finder Window" instead, with "New Folder" taking the more awkward shortcut of Command+Shift+N. This command reverses their mappings.
-1defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict 'New Finder Window' '@$N' 'New Folder' '@N'; killall Finder -
-1find -name ".php" -exec perl -pi -e 's/search/replace/g/' {} \;
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-1git push origin --all
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Removes all lines between the lines containing "" and "", including these lines itself Backdrop: Sometimes when working with XML files without an graphical editor, large comment-/annotation-blocks taper the readability to walk through the file. I like to create a copy of such documents without these annotations. As the documentation itself is in documentation tags inside the annotation tags an therefore graphical editors tend to put the annotation tags in their own lines, this command removes all documentations within annotation-tags. Show Sample Output
-1awk "/<xsd:annotation>/{h=1};!h;/<\/xsd:annotation>/{h=0}" annotatedSchema.xsd -
Find your default gateway and print it directly output. http://www.bayner.com/ kerim@bayner.com Show Sample Output
-1ip route show | awk '$3 ~ /^[1-9]+/ {print $3;}' -
Does one ping to a URL or host, and echo out just the response time. I use this on, with MRTG to monitor the connections to various hosts. Show Sample Output
-1ping -c 1 www.google.com | /usr/bin/awk '{print $7}' | /usr/bin/awk 'NR > 1' | /usr/bin/awk 'NR < 2' | /usr/bin/awk -F"=" '{print $2}' -
-1for f in ~/.mcabber/histo/*; do a=`egrep "^(MR|MS)" $f | wc -l`; echo $f: $a | awk -F\/ '{print $6}'; done
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-1dd bs=1 if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/imagename.raw seek=50G count=1 conv=notrunc
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for filename multilingual (ex.japanese, chinese, ...etc)
-1c=1; for i in *; do identify -verbose $i | perl -ane 'if(/exif:DateTimeOriginal:/){print "@F[1,2] "}'; ls -i $i; done | sort | perl -ane 'print "@F[2]\n"' | while read j; do find -inum $j | xargs -iX cp X NEW_`printf %02d $c`.jpg; cnt=`expr $c + 1`; done - ‹ First < 482 483 484 485 486 > Last ›
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