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show mysql process ids

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```
2
3131
3210
5633
6032
6061
6375
6588
6772
7092
7499
7663
```
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mysql -s -e "show processlist" |awk '{print $1}'

aravind040 · 2009-05-27 07:22:05 5
Search for specific IPs taken form a text file within the apache access log

bnd-ips.txt is a list of IP adresses that is concenated for use as regular expression. Yes, this is still very speedy ;=)
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grep -E ":(`cat bnd-ips.txt | sed 's/\./\\./g' | tr '\n' '|'`)" access.log

Cowboy · 2009-07-30 12:54:55 6
Visualizing system performance data

draw `vmstat ` data using gnuplot
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vmstat 2 10 | awk 'NR > 2 {print NR, $13}' | gnuplot -e "set terminal png;set output 'v.png';plot '-' u 1:2 t 'cpu' w linespoints;"

Sunng · 2009-09-23 07:19:47 3
Search pattern case insensitive
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:/\c{pattern}

yohananov · 2010-03-22 11:23:08 3
List file/directories in order of last accessed, in human readable terms

Especially useful with a command line podcatcher like Mashpodder. Show Sample Output
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```
drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4.0K Mar 29 23:01 LottaLinuxLinks
drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4.0K Mar 29 21:53 x11r5Radio
drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4.0K Mar 29 21:53 TLLTS
drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4.0K Mar 29 21:53 Linux.Outlaws.Ogg
```
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ls -lth podcasts/

ricemark20 · 2011-03-30 18:47:02 3
Quick enter into a single screen session
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alias screenr='screen -r $(screen -ls | egrep -o -e '[0-9]+' | head -n 1)'

yababay · 2011-05-12 05:44:39 5
Power cd - Add a couple of useful features to 'cd'

Move efficiently between directories. . This command adds a couple of extra features to cd, without affecting normal use. CDPATH use is also unaffected. It introduces and environment variable CDDIR which is used as an alternate home directory. . Note: I don't want to alter $HOME because then all my dot files will move. . Examples: . cd dir Change directory to "dir" (using CDPATH if necessary) . cd dir/file.txt Change directory to "dir" (containing folder of "file.txt") This allows you to cut'n'paste, or use . CDDIR is unset cd Change directory to $HOME . CDDIR=/home/flatcap/work cd Change directory to /home/flatcap/work . For convenience, put the command, and the following, in your .bashrc or .bash_profile export CDDIR="/home/flatcap/work" alias cdd="CDDIR=$(pwd)" Show Sample Output
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```
~$ export CDDIR=/home/flatcap/work
~$ cd
~/work$ unset CDDIR
~/work$ cd
~$
```
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cd() { if [ -n "$1" ]; then [ -f "$1" ] && set -- "${1%/*}"; else [ -n "$CDDIR" ] && set -- "$CDDIR"; fi; command cd "$@"; }

flatcap · 2011-06-24 08:48:13 10
find broken symbolic links

find broken symbolic links Show Sample Output
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```
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 43 2010-03-15 13:00 /mnt/retorn -> /opt/retorn
```
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find . -type l | (while read FN ; do test -e "$FN" || ls -ld "$FN"; done)

pathcl · 2011-08-02 14:48:47 5
Upload documents from linux to MS SHarepoint using curl

Use Curl to upload documents from your linux servers to MS Sharepoint servers.
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curl --ntlm -u <your Active-Directory-Domain>/<your-domain-username> -T /path/to/local/$FILE http://sharepoint.url.com/doc/library/dir/

barnesmjsa · 2011-09-08 18:08:58 3
Push to all remote repos with git
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git remote | xargs -n 1 git push

rickard2 · 2012-02-11 17:41:52 3
pdftk append with handles
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pdftk A=1.pdf B=2.pdf C=3.pdf cat C A output CA.pdf

bossNova · 2012-03-28 15:41:44 22
List all symlinks and see where they link to
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find -type l | xargs ls -l

samer · 2012-05-15 22:34:51 3
Find the 10 lusers winners of the "I take up the most disk space" award

the -h option of du and sort (on appropriate distrib) makes output "Human" readable and still sorted by "reversed size" (sort -rh) Show Sample Output
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```
55G	/home/user32
19G	/home/user45
6.7G	/home/user89
16M	/home/user02
64K	/home/user57
```
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du -sh /home/*|sort -rh|head -n 10

toaster · 2012-09-12 11:54:06 5
avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Execute commands serially on a list of hosts. Each ssh connection is made in the background so that if, after five seconds, it hasn't closed, it will be killed and the script will go on to the next system. Maybe there's an easier way to set a timeout in the ssh options...
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for host in $MYHOSTS; do ping -q -c3 $H 2>&1 1>/dev/null && ssh -o 'AllowedAuthe ntications publickey' $host 'command1; command2' & for count in 1 2 3 4 5; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done

a8ksh4 · 2012-11-13 23:12:27 5
Go get those photos from a Picasa album (full size)
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wget -O - "[PICASA ALBUM RSS LINK]" |sed 's/</\n</g' | grep media:content |sed 's/.*url='"'"'$[^'"'"']*$'"'"'.*$/\1/' |awk -F'/' '{gsub($NF,"d/"$NF); print $0}'|wget -i -

mxac · 2013-03-16 15:48:41 4
vi show line numbers

Prints line numbers making it easier to see long lines that wrap in your terminal and extra line breaks at the end of a file. :set nu works too. Show Sample Output
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```
1 sample text file
2 blah blah blah
3 last line
4
```
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:set number

sonic · 2013-10-07 15:03:52 6
Remove all .DS_Store files from the current directory (recursive)

May require GNU find.
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find . -name "*.DS_Store" -type f -delete

nicolasmccurdy · 2014-07-16 02:03:38 8
This command uses dd, pv, and dialog command to display an updated progress bar while using the dd command. This is useful to see the status of a dd in progress when creating very large dumps or coping hard disk devices using dd command.
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(pv -n /dev/sda | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=128M conv=notrunc,noerror) 2>&1 | dialog --gauge "Running dd command (cloning), please wait..." 10 70 0

skinners · 2014-11-07 16:24:26 13
function: permanent alias

Yes, it is not a command. Yes, you need to add it to your init script. Yes, you need to define $SH_ALIASES filename. But this shit can be very useful.
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function cmd () {echo 'alias '$1'="'${@:2}'"' >> $SH_ALIASES; . $SH_ALIASES }; . $SH_ALIASES;

romgrk · 2015-06-28 21:21:52 9
Diff two directories by finding and comparing the md5 checksums of their contents.

Results will be shown in columns. Only different files and files in one directory that is not in the other will be shown.
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diff -y --suppress-common-lines <(sort -k2 <(md5deep -r -b directory1)) <(sort -k2 <(md5deep -r -b directory2))

MeLoPasoPipa · 2016-08-18 09:17:16 12
Make color transparent
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mogrify -path ../png_transparent/ -fuzz 3.4% -transparent "#50566b" *.png

ceddi · 2016-10-17 19:49:04 17
Display which distro is installed

Cleaner than the top alternative Show Sample Output
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```
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 (jessie)
Release:	8.7
Codename:	jessie
```
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test `uname` = Linux && lsb_release -a 2>/dev/null || ( test `uname` = SunOS && cat /etc/release || uname -rms )

amhhhhhhh · 2017-04-25 13:35:40 21
Silently Execute a Shell Script that runs in the background and won't die on HUP/logout
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(nohup your-command your-args &>/dev/null &)

socketz · 2018-05-23 17:35:43 196
Force file system check
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touch /forcefsk

rimaya · 2009-02-06 09:19:46 11
Merge ( directories [looking for improvement]

Using a GUI file managers you can merge directories (cut and paste). This command roughly does the same (it doesn't ask for confirmation (no problem for me) and it doesn't clean up the empty SRC directories (no problem, trivial). probably does the same: cp -l SRC TARGET; rm -rf SRC
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(cd SRC; find . -type d -exec mkdir TARGET/{} ";"; find . -type f -exec mv {} TARGET/{} ";")

karel1980 · 2009-08-17 12:35:48 11
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easy C shell math calculators

allows simple C shell access to the power of bc - never could figure out how to do the same thing with Bash - that's why I use tcsh most of the time.

send echo to socket network

Using netcat, usuallly installed on debian/ubuntu. Also to test against a sample server the following two commands may help echo got milk? | netcat -l -p 25 python -c "import SocketServer; SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler.handle = lambda self: self.request.send('got milk?\n'); SocketServer.TCPServer(('0.0.0.0', 25), SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler).serve_forever()"

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"

Start a terminal with three open tabs

If you launch gnome-terminal manually, you can start with three open tabs

vi a new file with execution mode

$ vix /tmp/script.sh Open a file directly with execution permission. Put the function in your .bashrc You can also put this in your vimrc: $ command XX w | set ar | silent exe "!chmod +x %" | redraw! and open a new file like this: $ vi +XX /tmp/script.sh

Sniff ONLY POP3 authentication by intercepting the USER command

dsniff is general purpose password sniffer, it handles *lots* of different protocols, but it also handles tcp-style expressions for limiting analyzed traffic - so I can limit it to work on pop3 only.

Print every Nth line

Sometimes commands give you too much feedback. Perhaps 1/100th might be enough. If so, every() is for you. $ my_verbose_command | every 100 will print every 100th line of output. Specifically, it will print lines 100, 200, 300, etc If you use a negative argument it will print the *first* of a block, $ my_verbose_command | every -100 It will print lines 1, 101, 201, 301, etc The function wraps up this useful sed snippet: $ ... | sed -n '0~100p' don't print anything by default $ sed -n starting at line 0, then every hundred lines ( ~100 ) print. $ '0~100p' There's also some bash magic to test if the number is negative: we want character 0, length 1, of variable N. $ ${N:0:1} If it *is* negative, strip off the first character ${N:1} is character 1 onwards (second actual character).

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Assign function keys to your frequent commands

This is a common use of bind. Hitting any key after will output the key's character sequence. This makes possible using it into a bind command. So pressing ctrl+v and then F2 will output "^[[12~", once binded every time you'll press the function key F2 it will execute your command. Added the \n to make it execute it as well.

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Create a binary clock.

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