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Command to find filesystem type

C:/Sys/Bin/Admin/Desktop/Brackets/Search.exe Show Sample Output
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```
brackets
```
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#11671

gchicareli · 2012-12-22 16:09:08 4
Display two calendar months side by side
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cal -n 2 8 2018

actionless · 2018-09-04 13:31:03 336
find all references to a server in web.config files with powershell

Finds all files of a certain name and reports all line with the string. Very simple. Show Sample Output
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```
(80) C:\P\OS.svn -? ls \\webserver\c\inetpub\wwwroot -i web.config -r | Select-String "db-server"

\\webserver\c\inetpub\wwwroot\SomeApp\Web.config:72:    <add nam
e="foo" connectionString="Server=db-server;Database=foo;Integrated Security=true"/>
\\webserver\c\inetpub\wwwroot\SomeApp\Web.config:74:    <add nam
e="bar" connectionString="Server=db-server;Database=bar;Integrated Security=true"/>
```
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ls \\someserver\c$\inetpub\wwwroot -r -i web.config | Select-String "SomeMachineName"

cbilson · 2009-03-25 22:36:58 8
Read just the IP address of a device

another way to output the IP address' of the system
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/sbin/ifconfig | grep inet | cut -f 2 -d ":" | cut -f 1 -d " "

random_bob · 2009-07-21 21:42:04 10
Python Challenge Problem 0

This is the answer to the 0th problem from the python challenge < http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ >. Replace sensible-browser with firefox, w3m or whatever. Show Sample Output
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```
http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/map.html
```
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sensible-browser http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/$(bc <<< 2^38).html

kzh · 2010-02-02 00:53:18 8
Console clock
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watch -n1 echo

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 08:55:09 9
Repeat a portrait eight times so it can be cut out from a 6

Yes, You could do it in the GIMP or even use Inkscape, but the command line is so much easier. This is a new version of a previous command fixing some things complained about.
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montage input.jpg -auto-orient -duplicate 7 -geometry 500 -frame 5 output.jpg

anthony · 2011-06-09 14:03:01 3
shopt
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help shopt

ankush108 · 2012-06-26 17:25:38 19
Install dpkg packages
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sudo dpkg -i *.deb

newnumber · 2017-06-20 11:45:35 16
kill all processes of a program

kill all processes of a program
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kill -9 $(pidof *program*)

salazar · 2009-02-13 18:56:58 10
Count emails in an MBOX file
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grep -c '^From ' mbox_file

drewk · 2009-11-07 03:31:05 4
Add a line to crontab using sed

I needed to add a line to my crontab from within a script and didn't want to have to write my own temporary file. You may find you need to reload the crond after this to make the change take effect. e.g.: if [ -x /sbin/service ] then /sbin/service crond reload else CRON_PID=`ps -furoot | awk '/[^a-z]cron(d)?$/{print $2}'` if [ -n "$CRON_PID" ] then kill -HUP $CRON_PID fi fi The reason I had CRON_HOUR and CRON_MINS instead of numbers is that I wanted to generate a random time between midnight & 6AM to run the job, which I did with: CRON_HOUR=`/usr/bin/perl -e 'printf "%02d\n", int(rand(6))'` CRON_MINS=`/usr/bin/perl -e 'printf "%02d\n", int(rand(60));'`
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crontab -l | sed -e '$G;$s-$-'"$CRON_MINS $CRON_HOUR"' * * * /usr/bin/command >/dev/null 2>&1-' | crontab -

JohnGH · 2010-01-07 11:00:05 6
draw 45deg rotated text at the center of image
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convert input.png -pointsize 32 -gravity center -annotate 45 "hello, world" output.png

kev · 2011-08-26 06:49:25 5
quick find executable from locate db

This command allow you quick find any executable by keyword(s) in your system. NOTE: Sometime this command will output like this: `hello.py.launch': No such file or directory this is normal behaviour Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/bin/hello
/usr/lib/tk8.5/demos/hello
```
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find $(locate hello) -type f -executable -print|grep -E "hello\$"

unixmonkey14859 · 2012-08-18 07:51:53 5
Battery Health
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upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0

newnumber · 2017-06-20 11:50:59 35
Show all video files in the current directory (and sub-dirs)
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find -type f -printf '%P\000' | egrep -iz '\.(avi|mpg|mov|flv|wmv|asf|mpeg|m4v|divx|mp4|mkv)$' | sort -z | xargs -0 ls -1

udim · 2009-04-19 19:45:11 23
Read just the IP address of a device

to clean up the extra lines Show Sample Output
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```
127.0.0.1
192.168.1.127
```
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/sbin/ifconfig | grep inet | cut -f 2 -d ":" | cut -f 1 -d " " |egrep -v "^$"

giray · 2009-07-22 07:27:54 3
ping scan for a network and says who is alive or not
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for i in `seq 254`;do ping -c 1 192.168.10.$i > /dev/null && echo "$i is up"||echo "$i is down";done

hackuracy · 2011-08-26 11:09:43 3
Get windows IPv4 and nothing else
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cls && ipconfig | findstr -R "[ IPv4 | adapter ]"

sameer666 · 2013-12-03 13:29:30 5
make a zip file containing all files with the openmeta tag "data"

finding all files with the metadata tag "data" using the metadata find command mdfind , writing the list to a temporary file, reading the input for the .zip file from this temporary file.
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mdfind "tag:data" > /tmp/data.txt ; zip -r9@ ~/Desktop/data.zip < /tmp/data.txt

vranx · 2009-02-24 14:49:50 6
Check if variable is a number
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echo $X | egrep "^[0-9]+$"

sharfah · 2009-10-09 13:59:47 6
Indent all the files in a project using indent

This version uses the indent C formatting utility. Doesn't appear to be included with ubuntu. But CentOS and MacOS have it.
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find . -iname \*.[ch] -exec indent "{}" \;

putnamhill · 2010-09-10 13:25:10 4
Function that swaps the filenames of two given files.

(Changed to "bartonskis" suggestion.)
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flipf(){ if [ -f "$1" -a -f "$2" ]; then mv "$1" "$1.$$" && mv "$2" "$1" && mv "$1.$$" "$2" || echo "$!"; else echo "Missing a file: $!"; fi; }

Void42 · 2010-12-16 10:38:28 7
Replace Space In Filenames With Underscore

@ http://sgowtham.net/blog/2007/10/18/bash-replace-space-in-filenames-with-underscore/
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for file in "* *"; do mv "${file}" "${file// /_}"; done

evandrix · 2012-04-25 00:02:35 7
SAR - List top CPU usage spikes over the last month using sar.
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ls /var/log/sa/sa[0-9]*|xargs -I '{}' sar -u -f {}|awk '/^[0-9]/&&!/^12:00:01|RESTART|CPU/{print "%user: "$4" %system: "$6" %iowait: "$7" %nice: "$5" %idle: "$9}'|sort -nk10|head

omatictost · 2012-10-25 18:27:47 5
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resize all JPG images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)

Convert all jpegs in the current directory into ~1024*768 pixels and ~ 150 KBytes jpegs

Tail postfix current maillog and grep for "criteria"

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

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Print a row of characters across the terminal

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Convert CSV to JSON

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