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Join multipart archive in binary mode under Windows with command line

Note between the last there is no plus sign
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copy /b part.1 + part.2 + part.n file.extension

bugmenot · 2013-01-04 21:21:15 5
regex to match an ip

Handles everything except octets with 255. Ran through ip generator with variable octet lengths.
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echo 127.0.0.1 | egrep -e '^(([01]?[0-9]{1,2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-4])\.){3}([01]?[0-9]{1,2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-4])$'

arcege · 2009-09-17 17:40:48 3
Enable passwordless login

It is safe when there is "PermitEmptyPasswords no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. This command is useful when there is no need to have a password.
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sudo usermod -p $(mkpasswd '') user_id

ckclark · 2010-05-06 20:39:58 42
Uptime in minute

Get info directly from /proc/uptime
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awk '{print $0/60;}' /proc/uptime

ioggstream · 2011-08-31 10:41:21 17
remote ssh xdmcp session

ssh compresion -C option ... on slow connection VNC performs better but in local LAN native secure X protocol is an option Show Sample Output
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```
remote login screen
```
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ssh -XfC -c blowfish user@host Xephyr dpms -fullscreen -query localhost :5

hute37 · 2012-11-01 18:59:57 9
External IP (raw data)
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curl curlmyip.com

inzel · 2013-09-19 19:12:53 7
chain search and replace special characters to html entities in gvim

a brief list of very common special characters in Dutch. Usefull for formatting Word source to html.
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%s/?/\ï/ge | %s/?/\é/ge | %s/?/"/ge | %s/?/"/ge | %s/?/'/ge | %s/?/'/ge | %s/?/\ê/ge | %s/?/\/ge | %s/?/\è/ge | %s/?/\ó/ge | %s/?/\ö/ge | %s/?/\é/ge | %s/?/\–/ge | %s/?/\—/ge

miccaman · 2010-07-15 07:40:45 4
df without line wrap on long FS name

all on one line and you also get the filesystem type Show Sample Output
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```
Filesystem         Mount               Size     Used    Avail %Used  fs Type 
/dev/sda2          /                 109,1G    39,3G    64,3G   41%  ext4    
/dev/sda1          /boot             896,8M   251,8M   597,1M   33%  ext2    
```
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di

Christian · 2013-01-06 09:07:58 5
Change dates/timestamps of all files in the current folder
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gci -rec | %{ $_.lastWriteTime = ($_.lastAccessTime = ($_.creationTime = (get-date "2021-05-19T10:14:00"))) }

swarzynski · 2022-01-12 08:08:40 372
Rename *.MP3 *.Mp3 *.mP3 etc.. to *.mp3.

Extensible to other ugly extensions like *.JPG, *.Jpg etc.. Leave out the last pipe to sh to perform a dry run.
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find ./ -iname "*.mp3" -type f -printf "mv '%p' '%p'\n" | sed -e "s/mp3'$/mp3'/I" | sh

jnash · 2009-03-27 13:42:40 11
for loop with leading zero in bash 3

Bash 4 will let you do {00..19} to get leading zeros, but Bash 3 doesn't have that feature. This technique gets you partway there (the sequences need be such that the last digit ranges from zero to nine - you can't use this for something like Bash 4's {03..27}, for example). When this limitation is not a problem, you can avoid some complicated string manipulation for concatenating leading zeros. You can add more digits like this: {0..1}{0..9}{0..9} (ranges from 0 to 99 with up to two leading zeros). To pad with additional zeros: for i in 000{0..1}{0..9}; do echo $i; done or for i in {0..1}{0..9}; do echo "000$i"; done This is useful for creating values to sort or for creating filenames with a fixed format. Note that this will also work: touch {0..1}{0..9} Show Sample Output
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```
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
```
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for i in {0..1}{0..9}; do echo $i; done

dennisw · 2009-09-18 02:51:12 5
Capture screen and default audio input device and generate an incompress AVI file

The command generate an huge output file (depending on screen resolution and time).
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gst-launch avimux name=mux ! filesink location=out.avi \ alsasrc ! audioconvert ! queue ! mux. istximagesrc name=videosource use-damage=false ! video/x-raw-rgb,framerate=10/1 ! videorate ! ffmpegcolorspace ! video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=10/1 ! mux.

Nicolargo · 2010-07-15 09:39:51 5
pbzip2 tar pipe to untar
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pbzip2 -dck <bz2file> | tar xvf -

maarten · 2010-08-16 22:16:50 3
Jump to any directory above the current
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jda() { cd $(pwd | sed "s/$\/$@\/$.*/\1/g"); }

saibbot · 2011-10-05 21:14:57 5
Convert Windows/DOS Text Files to Unix

converts non-ISO dos text files for use on unix systems.
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dos2unix dostxt unixtxt

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 21:11:43 17
Recursively search a directory tree for all .php .inc .html .htm .css .js files for a certain string

Use find to recursively make a list of all files from the current directory and downwards. The files have to have an extension of the ones listed. Then for every file found, grep it for 'searchString', returns the filename if searchString is found. Show Sample Output
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./index.html
./lib/php/buttons.php
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find . -type f $ -name "*.js" -o -name "*.php" -o -name "*.inc" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "*.htm" -o -name "*.css" $ -exec grep -il 'searchString' {} \;

niels_bom · 2010-02-07 15:28:20 3
easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Essentially the same as funky's alias, but will not traverse filesystems and has nicer formatting. Show Sample Output
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```
You could add this in your profile with a different format to make it look less daunting:
$ alias dush="du -xsm * | \
              sort -n | \
              awk '{ \
                printf(\"%4s MB  ./\",\$1); \
                for ( i=1 ; i<=NF ; i++ ) { \
                  if ( i > 1 ) printf(\"%s \",\$i) \
                }; \
                printf(\"\n\") \
              }' | \
              tail"
```
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alias dush="du -xsm * | sort -n | awk '{ printf(\"%4s MB ./\",\$1) ; for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) { if (i>1) printf(\"%s \",\$i) } ; printf(\"\n\") }' | tail"

dopeman · 2010-07-15 10:38:27 4
Remove all leading and trailing slashes on each line of a text file

There can be more than one trailing slash, all of them will be removed.
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sed -e "s,/\+$,," -e "s,^/\+,," file.txt

bugmenot · 2012-11-02 21:08:30 8
run as system on windows

In 2014, ask a kind of specific UAC authorization to run due to his dangerousity.
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@echo off && sc create CmdAsSystem type= own type= interact binPath= "cmd /c start cmd /k (cd c:\ ^& color ec ^& title ***** SYSTEM *****)" && net start CmdAsSystem && sc delete CmdAsSystem

willemijns · 2010-02-07 15:28:28 4
easy seach ip
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ifconfig eth0|awk '/HWaddr/{gsub(/:/,"",$5);print $5}'

leoiceo · 2013-03-08 06:36:20 5
Generate CHECK TABLE statements for all MySQL database tables on a server

This command will generate "CHECK TABLE `db_name.table_name` ;" statements for all tables present in databases on a MySQL server, which can be piped into the mysql command. (Can also be altered to perform OPTIMIZE and REPAIR functions.) Tested on MySQL 4.x and 5.x systems in a Linux environment under bash. Show Sample Output
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```
CHECK TABLE `mysql.columns_priv` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.db` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.func` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_category` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_keyword` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_relation` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_topic` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.host` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.tables_priv` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_leap_second` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_name` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_transition` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_transition_type` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.user` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.user_info` ;
```
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DD=`cat /etc/my.cnf | sed "s/#.*//g;" | grep datadir | tr '=' ' ' | gawk '{print $2;}'` && ( cd $DD ; find . -mindepth 2 | grep -v db\.opt | sed 's/\.\///g; s/\....$//g; s/\//./;' | sort | uniq | tr '/' '.' | gawk '{print "CHECK TABLE","`"$1"`",";";}' )

atcroft · 2009-07-25 03:42:31 15
nested XDMCP login

XDMCP ust be enabled (gdm,lightdm,xdm etc ) Show Sample Output
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nested login screen
```
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/usr/bin/Xephyr :5 -query localhost -once -fullscreen -ac -keybd "ephyr,,,xkbmodel=pc105,xkblayout=it,xkbrules=evdev,xkboption="

hute37 · 2012-11-03 01:21:36 41

View your motherboard's ACPI tables (in Debian & Ubuntu)

In July 2008, there was an uproar over Foxconn motherboards feeding Linux installs incorrect ACPI information (http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249). Foxconn has gladly corrected their mistake, but make sure it's not happening on your motherboard! After running the command, just view the 'dsdt.dsl' in any editor you like. Show Sample Output

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sudo aptitude -y install iasl && sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.dat && iasl -d dsdt.dat

brettalton · 2009-02-15 23:13:50 13

dig this
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for dnsREC in $(curl -s http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters |grep -Eo ^[A-Z\.]+\ |sed 's/TYPE//'); do echo -n "$dnsREC " && dig +short $dnsREC IANA.ORG; done

commandlinefu · 2009-09-01 03:11:18 3
force change password for all user
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for i in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{ print $1 }';`; do passwd -e $i; done

irraz · 2009-11-11 13:01:22 3
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Show your local ipv4 IP

To show ipv6 instead, use [[ -6 ]] instead of [[ -4 ]] $ip -o -6 a s | awk -F'[ /]+' '$2!~/lo/{print $4}' To show only the IP of a specific interface, in case you get more than one result: $ip -o -4 a s eth0 | awk -F'[ /]+' '$2!~/lo/{print $4}' $ip -o -4 a s wlan0 | awk -F'[ /]+' '$2!~/lo/{print $4}'

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DVD-Rip

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File rotation without rename command

Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

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