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Show today date on a yearly calendar.
-1cal -y -
Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details. Has anyone an idea why the uniq doesn't work propperly here (see sample output)? Show Sample Output
-1netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort -
Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example). Uses a Google API. Show Sample Output
-1curl -s "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=New%20York" | sed 's|.*<temp_f data="\([^"]*\)"/>.*|\1|' -
You don't need to create an intermediate file, just pipe the output directly to tar command and use stin as file (put a dash after the f flag).
-1cat 1.tar.gz 2.tar.gz | tar zxvif - -
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titlescroll "message" <width>Requires command "xtitle" or replace with:echo -ne "\e]0;TEXT_HERE\007"-1function titlescroll { _X=0 _TITLEMSG=$1 _WIDTH=${2:-16} _TITLEMSG=`printf "%$((${#_TITLEMSG}+$_WIDTH))s" "$_TITLEMSG"` while `true` do _X=$(((_X+1)%${#_TITLEMSG})) xtitle "${_TITLEMSG:_X:_WIDTH}" done } -
-1find ./ -name Thumbs.db -exec rm -rf '{}' +
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-1!a[$0]++
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-1expr $(fdisk -s ` grep ' / ' /etc/mtab |cut -d " " -f1`) / 1024
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Escapes spaces in paths.
-1locate -i yourfilename | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs ls -lah | less -
Fetches latest stable release version from first entry between tags Show Sample Output
-1curl -s -k https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml | sed -n -e 's@.*<guid>\(.*\)</guid>.*@\1@p' | grep 'stable' | head -1 | awk -F , '{print $3}' -
The 1440 is the number of bytes, and the A: specifies the floppy drive.
-1mformat -f 1440 A: -
Whenever you compile a new kernel, there are always new modules. The best way to make sure you have the correct modules loaded when you boot is to add all your modules in the modules.autoload file (they will be commented) and uncomment all those modules you need. Also a good way to keep track of the available modules in your system. For other distros you may have to change the name of the file to /etc/modprobe.conf Show Sample Output
-1find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -type f -iname '*.o' -or -iname '*.ko' |grep -i -o '[a-z0-9]*[-|_]*[0-9a-z]*\.ko$' |xargs -I {} echo '# {}' >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 -
Create a secure tunnelled connection for access to a remote MySQL database. For example, connect with MySQL Workbench to root@127.0.0.1:13306. Show Sample Output
-1sshmysql() { ssh -L 13306:127.0.0.1:3306 -N $* & } -
-1locale | grep LANG=
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newly downloaded videos
goyoutuberandomgoyoutube randThis command assumes you've already downloaded some YouTube .mp4 or .flv video files via other means. Requires 'shuf', or your own stdin shuffler.-1goyoutube() { d=/path/to/videos p=$d/playlist m=$d/*.mp4 f=$d/*.flv if [ "$1" == 'rand' ]; then ls -1 $m $f | shuf >$p else ls -1t $m $f >$p fi mplayer -geometry 500x400 -playlist $p } -
-1who am i | wc -l
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This will print out the files and directories in a gzipped tarball.
-1less file.tar.gz -
find all computer connected to my host through TCP connection Show Sample Output
-1netstat -nut | awk '$NF=="ESTABLISHED" {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u -
-1find -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".*/[A-Z]{3}_201009[0-9]{2}.*" -printf "%f %s\n" | awk '{ SUM += $2;COUNT++ } END { print SUM/1024 " kb in " COUNT " files" }'
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-1(cd /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS; ./firefox-bin -p default --no-remote)
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With this you can unlock your KDE4 session via SSH, via mobile phone SSH or e. g. scheduled task in crontab (without asking password). Useful when you need to grant somebody access to your locked profile remotely. Create an alias (e. g. as "unlock") and use with remote KDE4 lock. This works only on KDE4 boxes because KDE 3 is using utility with another name. Tested on Kubuntu 8.10.
-1killall -s 9 krunner_lock -
-1in bash hit "tab" twice and answer y
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Will create a graph of the results for "x bottles of beer on the wall". Requires Gnuplot. Inspired by an xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/715/ For sample output see: http://tr.im/xbottlesofbeer Show Sample Output
-1(echo "plot '-' with lines"; for x in $(seq 1 100); do curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=$(echo $x bottles of beer on the wall|sed 's/ /%20/g')"|sed 's/.*"estimatedResultCount":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1\n/';done)|gnuplot -persist -
forces user to rw, group to r, and other to no access. files will not be marked executable. directories will be executable for users and groups only. Show Sample Output
-1chmod -R u=rw-x+X,g=r-x+X,o= . -
Take a folder full of files and split it into smaller folders containing a maximum number of files. In this case, 100 files per directory. find creates the list of files xargs breaks up the list into groups of 100 for each group, create a directory and copy in the files Note: This command won't work if there is whitespace in the filenames (but then again, neither do the alternative commands :-)
-1files -type f | xargs -n100 | while read l; do mkdir $((++f)); cp $l $f; done - ‹ First < 494 495 496 497 498 > Last ›
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