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How many lines does the passwd file have?
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cat /etc/passwd | wc -l

wilbercarmona · 2011-06-03 00:05:20 26
Get info `iostat -En` for all disks with Hardware Errors - works on Solaris and Solaris forks

This helps quickly get information for each disk that is seemingly having hardware issues.
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iostat -En $(iostat -en|grep c#t|awk '$2 > 0 {print $NF}')

unixmonkey28207 · 2011-12-09 15:54:28 4
Disk usage skipping mount points (even top-level ones)

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
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```
4.0K    /mnt
4.0K    /srv
8.0K    /media
16K     /lost+found
7.4M    /etc
25M     /home
83M     /boot
219M    /root
766M    /tmp
2.7G    /usr
8.3G    /opt
11G     /var
```
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for a in /*; do mountpoint -q -- "$a" || du -shx "$a"; done | sort -h

dmmst19 · 2024-02-28 01:43:19 54
do a release upgrade in ubuntu

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-core in some cases you must edit '/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades' and set 'Prompt=normal'
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do-release-upgrade

dizzgo · 2009-03-25 07:25:33 14
full text(CJK) search mails and link the result to $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/
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recoll -t -q "keyword" | grep message/rfc822 | sed -s 's,^.*$'$MAILDIR'[^]]*$\].*$,\"\1\",' | xargs ln -sft $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/

s5unty · 2011-12-09 17:22:51 3
Move itens from subdirectories to current directory

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/$/\"/g' | xargs rm -r to remove now empty subdirectories.
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ls -d */* | sed -e 's/^/\"/g' -e 's/$/\"/g' | xargs mv -t $(pwd)

leovailati · 2010-03-01 23:43:26 6
calculate in commandline with dc

Us dc instead of bc. RPN FTW!!! Show Sample Output
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```
2
```
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dc -e "1 1 + p"

stubby · 2010-08-08 23:14:30 3
Quickly find files and folders in the current directory

These should be a little faster since they don't have to spawn grep.
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ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f -iname "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d -iname "$1"; }

plasticboy · 2012-08-15 15:04:48 3
Merge only certain pdfs in a directory
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gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=merged.pdf -dBATCH `ls | grep foo`

Arasithil · 2014-09-19 16:00:32 8
calculate in commandline with perl
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perl -e 'print 1+1 ."\n";'

stubby · 2010-08-08 23:19:10 3
Use socat to create a largefile
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echo | socat -u - file:/tmp/swapfile,create,largefile,seek=10000000000000

madrasi · 2011-02-08 00:30:38 4
Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.

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.
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find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs rm {} \;

allrightname · 2010-06-04 12:35:24 6
delete duplicate files
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fdupes -rdN $folder

markussesser · 2011-06-03 06:24:02 5
Convert a PKCS#8 private key to PEM format
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openssl pkcs8 -inform DER -nocrypt -in [priv key] -out [pem priv key]

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 16:52:34 20
Get your external IP address with the best commandlinefu.com command

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.
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eval $(curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/external/ZXh0ZXJuYWw=/sort-by-votes/plaintext|sed -n '/^# Get your external IP address$/{n;p;q}')

jgc · 2009-11-04 16:58:31 6
Identify a PKCS#8 Private Key

a pkcs8 key will have integer 00 at offset 4 and an rsaEncryption object at offset 9
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openssl ans1parse -inform DER < [priv key]

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 16:54:19 18
Remap "New Folder" to Command+N, "New Finder Window" to Cmd+Shift+N in Mac OS X

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.
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defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict 'New Finder Window' '@$N' 'New Folder' '@N'; killall Finder

Vulpine · 2009-02-17 23:20:53 7
perl find and replace
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find -name ".php" -exec perl -pi -e 's/search/replace/g/' {} \;

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:18:44 3
Push each of your local git branches to the remote repository
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git push origin --all

JustinCampbell · 2011-06-03 17:55:53 5
Remove annotation- (or other own-lined) tags from an XML document

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
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```
transforms:

<xsd:attribute name="version" type="xsd:string" use="required" fixed="1.0">
    <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation>This attribute denotes the version number ot the utilized XML-schema.</xsd:documentation>
    </xsd:annotation>
</xsd:attribute>

into:

<xsd:attribute name="version" type="xsd:string" use="required" fixed="1.0">
</xsd:attribute>
```
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awk "/<xsd:annotation>/{h=1};!h;/<\/xsd:annotation>/{h=0}" annotatedSchema.xsd

2chg · 2011-07-15 07:17:17 7
Find default gateway

Find your default gateway and print it directly output. http://www.bayner.com/ kerim@bayner.com Show Sample Output
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192.168.1.1
```
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ip route show | awk '$3 ~ /^[1-9]+/ {print $3;}'

kerim · 2010-08-08 23:57:23 3
Do one ping to a URL, I use this in a MRTG gauge graph to monitor connectivity

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
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12.304
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ping -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}'

ackers · 2010-12-15 08:50:52 4
Count messages in mcabber history for each JID
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for f in ~/.mcabber/histo/*; do a=`egrep "^(MR|MS)" $f | wc -l`; echo $f: $a | awk -F\/ '{print $6}'; done

aluminiumgeek · 2011-06-04 10:51:49 3
extend KVM image size
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dd bs=1 if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/imagename.raw seek=50G count=1 conv=notrunc

altern · 2011-07-15 09:54:26 3
rename all images in folder with original date time from exif data

for filename multilingual (ex.japanese, chinese, ...etc)
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c=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

huzioka · 2015-09-22 19:06:43 11
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BASH one-liner to get the current week number

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Transfer Entire recursive from one host to another. Only copies files that are newer or do not exist

From opposite host To copy remote to local rsync -aE -e "ssh -pPortnumber" user@hostA:directory target_dir

Create named LUKS encrypted volume

You need to be root to do this. So check the command before running it. You enter the same password for Enter LUKS passphrase: Verify passphrase: Enter passphrase for /dev/loopn: ___ You can then copy the .img file to somewhere else. Loop it it with losetup -f IMAGENAME.img and then mount it with a file manager (eg nemo) or run mount /dev/loopn /media/mountfolder Acts similar to a mounted flash drive

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

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mplayer webcam window for screencasts

When recording screencast some people like to have the image from their webcam, so the can show something, that can't be seen on the desktop. So starting mplayer with these parameters you will have a window with no frames, borders whatsoever, and selecting the window a hitting the "F" key you will bring it in fullscreen. if you want to position the frame somewhere else, you could play with the --geomeptry option where 100%:100% mean bottom right corner. The HEIGHT and WIDTH can't be changed as you like, since the most webcams support specified dimensions, so you would have to play with it to see what is supported

Find out how old a web page is

I used to use the Firefox "View page info" feature a lot to determine how stale the web page I was looking at was. Now that I use mostly Chrome I miss that feature, so here is a command line alternative using wget. The -S says to display the server response, the --spider says to not download any files/pages, just fetch the header. The output goes to stderr, so to grep it you use 2>&1 to combine the stderr stream with stdout, the pipe that to grep for Last-Modified. You can use curl instead if you have it installed, like this: $ curl --head -s http://osswin.sourceforge.net | grep Mod

Delete a file/directory walking subdirectories (bash4 or zsh)

ps with parent/child process tree

Shows a tree view of parent to child processes in the output of ps (linux). Similar output can be achieved with pstree (also linux) or ptree (Solaris).

Manipulate the metadata when the photo was taken, this will shift with +15hours + 30min

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