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Force eject of CD on OSX

sometimes this helps, when eject button fails
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hdiutil eject -force /Volumes/CDNAME

zagdul · 2013-04-23 14:32:38 4
Print the total lines number of a file

This command print the last line of a file with in first position the total lines number. Show Sample Output
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```
LINE_NUMBERS FILE_CONTENT
```
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nl FILE_NAME | tail -n 1

P3ter · 2013-07-04 21:54:59 12
Search packages beginning with the letter
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aptitude search ~n^s.*

ldd · 2013-09-17 13:46:56 6
Just removes everything

when bad day comes...
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rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

thunder · 2013-12-10 10:49:38 5
Stream a video file as live stream

This command is used to stream a video file as live to some streaming server like Wowza, Red5 . etc
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ffmpeg -re -i localFile.mp4 -c copy -f flv rtmp://server/live/streamName

unni9946 · 2014-03-07 05:52:11 7
Uncomment line based on string match

This sed command will search for 4.2.2.2 in all lines of test.txt and replace comment symbol ";" . You can use it for other purpose also.
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sed -e '/4.2.2.2/ s/^;//' -i test.txt

suyashjain · 2014-10-13 13:37:53 24
Watch the progress of 'dd'

Output appears in terminal where dd is running, not where command is executed. Send a USR1 signal to dd. Finds the most recently run dd command
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sudo pkill -USR1 -n -x dd

texasflood · 2015-01-25 12:31:56 6
Conver video file to be MPEG2 to be transferred to DVD project

The command will use avconv to convert any video file in to MPEG2 format which will be added to a DVD project.
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avconv -i FILE.mp4" -f dvd -c:v:0 mpeg2video -s 720x576 -r 25 -g 15 -b:v:0 8000000 -maxrate:v:0 8000000 -minrate:v:0 8000000 -bufsize:v:0 1835008 -packetsize 2048 -muxrate 10080000 -b:a 192000 -ar 48000 -c:a:0 ac3 -map 0:v -map 0:a FILE.mpeg

alikhalil · 2015-05-20 09:55:48 9

List local accounts, their SIDs and password metadata from the Windows command-prompt (CMD.exe)

List local accounts and their SIDs (*-500 is the original local Administrator, *-501 is the original local Guest, more below). This is helpful in identifying local accounts that are not disabled, don't have an expiring password, etc. Well-Known SIDs https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/243330 Show Sample Output

wmic useraccount WHERE "LocalAccount=1" GET Name,Disabled,Lockout,PasswordChangeable,PasswordExpires,PasswordRequired,SID

Xeleema · 2015-12-29 18:01:42 10

Output ranges from length(L) and width(W)
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awk -v L=100 -v W=9 'BEGIN{C=0;while(C<L){A=C;B=C+W-1;if((L-1)<B){B=L-1};print A"\t"B;system("");C=B+1}}'

akanehara · 2017-02-10 06:11:50 21
Recursively remove all empty directories

This version handles directory names with spaces properly
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find . -type d | tac | xargs -I{} rmdir {} 2> /dev/null

makoniec · 2017-02-27 22:03:41 17
grep for text in a specific file type
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grep -rnw <directory to search for> -e --include \*.x "your_text"

jutop · 2017-04-12 09:02:39 26
send mail over shell as Sender From and utf-8 encoded
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mailx -a "From:myemail@yourmail.com" -a "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" -s "Test mail subject" joy@selekt-berlin.de <<< "Test msg body"

aysadk · 2017-06-04 15:28:07 14
nmap check port
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sudo nmap -sU -p 53 8.8.8.8

aysadk · 2017-08-16 19:59:18 17
See whether your compiled Apache is prefork or worker MPM

For some of my web servers I setup and configure, for scaling I use the httpd.conf settings for these. Sometimes I forget which servers are prefork and which are worker MPM, so I use this to remind myself. Show Sample Output
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```
Compiled in modules:
  core.c
  prefork.c
  http_core.c
  mod_so.c
```
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/usr/sbin/httpd -l

Mattie · 2009-02-05 19:06:43 57
Get thread count for process on Solaris
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ps -L -p <pid> | wc -l

adamm9 · 2009-04-22 15:05:26 5
Display $PATH with one line per entry

Display the $PATH with one line per entry, in a pager. Show Sample Output
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```
/home/nicoulaj/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
(END) 
```
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echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n} | less

nicoulaj · 2010-01-09 23:25:02 4

Create a template for WebLogic 9 or 10

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pack.sh -domain=[PATH]/domains/mydomain -template=[PATH]/mydomain.jar -template_name="mydomain"

andresaquino · 2010-04-08 00:20:55 4

Generate trigonometric/log data easily

If you want a sequence that can be plotted, do: seq 8 | awk '{print "e(" $0 ")" }' | bc -l | awk '{print NR " " $0}' Other bc functions include s (sine), c (cosine), l (log) and j (bessel). See the man page for details. Show Sample Output
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```
2.71828182845904523536
7.38905609893065022723
20.08553692318766774092
54.59815003314423907811
148.41315910257660342111
403.42879349273512260838
1096.63315842845859926372
2980.95798704172827474359
```
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seq 8 | awk '{print "e(" $0 ")" }' | bc -l

polar · 2010-08-14 02:52:39 4
to display all characters except second last character from each line of a file
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sed 's/^$.*$$.$$.$$/\1\3/' fileName

harish · 2010-10-19 09:19:41 3
Write a bootable Linux .iso file directly to a USB-stick

This wgets the iso directly to the USB device, replace /dev/sdb with the device name of the USB stick. After wget finishes you will be able to boot the .iso file from the USB stick.
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wget -O/dev/sdb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso

unixmonkey22563 · 2011-06-12 21:58:13 36
Save the debconf configuration of an installed package
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debconf-copydb configdb copydb --pattern=<PACKAGE> --config="Name: copydb" --config="Driver: File" --config="Filename: ~/copydebconf.dat"

ohe · 2011-08-29 14:00:42 3

Pipes the output of the previous command into less.

Pipes the output of the previous command into less. Very useful when command output is too big to fit in a tty console Show Sample Output

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Octavius:~ jaykru$ sort --help
  -z, --zero-terminated     end lines with 0 byte, not newline
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

POS is F[.C][OPTS], where F is the field number and C the character position
in the field.  OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering options, which
override global ordering options for that key.  If no key is given, use the
entire line as the key.

SIZE may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
% 1% of memory, b 1, K 1024 (default), and so on for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

*** WARNING ***
The locale specified by the environment affects sort order.
Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses
native byte values.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Octavius:~ jaykru$ !! | sort
Usage: sort [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
Ordering options:

  -b, --ignore-leading-blanks  ignore leading blanks
  -d, --dictionary-order      consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
  -f, --ignore-case           fold lower case to upper case characters
  -g, --general-numeric-sort  compare according to general numerical value
  -i, --ignore-nonprinting    consider only printable characters
  -M, --month-sort            compare (unknown) < `JAN' < ... < `DEC'
  -n, --numeric-sort          compare according to string numerical value
  -r, --reverse               reverse the result of comparisons

Other options:

  -c, --check               check whether input is sorted; do not sort
  -k, --key=POS1[,POS2]     start a key at POS1, end it at POS2 (origin 1)
  -m, --merge               merge already sorted files; do not sort
  -o, --output=FILE         write result to FILE instead of standard output
  -s, --stable              stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison
  -S, --buffer-size=SIZE    use SIZE for main memory buffer
:

!! | less

jaykru · 2012-02-03 00:18:42 3

clean php files from base64_decode() hack

loop through files in .php extension make a .bak of each of them find the base64_decode function and remove it
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for f in `find . -name "*.php"`; do perl -p -i.bak -e 's/<\?php \/\*\*\/ eval$base64_decode\(\"[^\"]+"$\);\?>//' $f; done

lizuka · 2012-03-12 10:44:33 3
Backup a whole database to a file

A basic usage
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mysqldump -p MYDB > MYDB.sql

henry · 2012-10-30 02:35:34 5
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Diff files over SSH

Sometimes you need to compare two config files on different servers. Put the file names into the above script and let 'er rip.

Change the From: address on the fly for email sent from the command-line

It's very common to have cron jobs that send emails as their output, but the From: address is whatever account the cron job is running under, which is often not the address you want replies to go to. Here's a way to change the From: address right on the command line. What's happening here is that the "--" separates the options to the mail client from options for the sendmail backend. So the -f and -F get passed through to sendmail and interpreted there. This works on even on a system where postfix is the active mailer - looks like postfix supports the same options. I think it's possible to customize the From: address using mutt as a command line mailer also, but most servers don't have mutt preinstalled.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

download the contents of a remote folder in the current local folder

Use Kernighan & Ritchie coding style in C program

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

Define words and phrases with google.

This function takes a word or a phrase as arguments and then fetches definitions using Google's "define" syntax. The "nl" and perl portion isn't strictly necessary. It just makes the output a bit more readable, but this also works: $define(){ local y="$@";curl -sA"Opera" "http://www.google.com/search?q=define:${y// /+}"|grep -Po '(?/dev/null;}

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left-right mouse buttons (left-handed)

Suspend, background, and foreground a process

1. Start a process, such as 'top' command 2. # suspend process {ctrl-Z} 3. # background process bg 4. # list all backgrounded jobs jobs 5. # bring it back to foreground fg

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