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alias agi="sudo apt-get install" #package_names

2009-05-14 03:31:47

User: professoralex

Functions: alias

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aliases for apt-get

these are some aliases you can use in bashrc to shorten the amount of typing needed to use apt-get, also can be used as reference if you can't remember alot of commands or command parameter variations,etc...

Please comment with more apt-get aliases if I missed any, thx

geoip() { lynx -dump "http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?IP=$1" | sed -n '/Host Name/,/Postal code/p' ; }

2011-02-04 14:12:02

User: vando

Functions: sed

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geoip information

Shows you the geolocation of an IP address.

response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=60';

2011-07-11 23:35:36

User: evandrix

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HTTP Caching (gateway/reverse proxy cache for webapps)

possible options:

* Varnish

* Squid in reverse proxy mode

* Django's cache framework

* rack-cache

* or CDN, like Akamai

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telnet <ip> <port>

2009-02-12 19:11:03

User: leprasmurf

Functions: telnet

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test connection if ICMP is disabled

Telnet will make a tcp connection to a remote ip/port to test connectivity. If it times out, it's not reaching the host (maybe the firewall is blocking it). If connection is refused, it's reaching the host, but either the service is not listening on that port, or it's locked.

(Command too long..See sample Output..)

2009-06-14 20:34:37

User: mohan43u

Tags: bash sed echo tr od

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urlencode

curl doesn't provide url-encoding for 'GET' data, it have an option '--data-urlencode', but its only for 'POST' data. Thats why I need to write down this commandline. With 'perl', 'php' and 'python', this is one liner, but just I wrote it for fun. Works in Ubuntu, will work in all linux varients(I hope it will work in unix varients also).

ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine

2012-12-08 19:48:19

User: www

Functions: ssh

Tags: ssh key copy server rsa

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Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.

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tail -f /var/log/messages

2009-02-12 19:30:33

User: nicdev

Functions: tail

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View new log messages in real time

Use this command to see logs update in real time

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export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`

2011-02-05 06:29:54

User: YogiBare

Functions: export

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Append current directory to $PATH temporarily.

This will temporarily add the current directory to your $PATH. Allowing you to execute from that directory for the duration of the session.

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function encode4phone() { ffmpeg -acodec libamr_nb -vcodec h263 -i "$1" -s qcif -b 200k -ac 1 -ab 7.4k -ar 8000 "$1.3gp" }

2009-02-21 20:39:35

User: TheBunman

Tags: video

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watch porn on older mobile phones

works like a charm for the K610i

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tar cvf - /src | ( cd /dest ; tar xvf - )

2011-09-22 15:35:24

User: a8ksh4

Functions: cd tar

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Tar Pipe

This is how I've done it in the past

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echo -e "aa\nbb\ncc\ndd\n123" | sed -e :a -e "/$/N; s/\n/;/; ta"

2009-04-15 16:12:00

User: unixmonkey3251

Functions: echo sed

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Join lines

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ps ho command $$

2011-02-05 10:24:33

User: j_melis

Functions: command ps

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Figure out what shell you're running

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echo $SHELL

2011-02-05 11:06:40

User: lockie

Functions: echo

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Figure out what shell you're running

Isn't that simplier huh?

tar -zcps <dir> -X <(find <dir> -type f -mtime -<days>) |ssh user@backuphost tar -xzpsC /data/bkup

2009-02-12 22:31:58

User: zb

Functions: find tar

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backup the old files

due to bug can not comment

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opendiff <file1> <file2>

2009-06-16 03:22:52

User: claytron

Tags: diff osx filemerge

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Use FileMerge to compare two files

This command will open up the two files in FileMerge on OS X. You can also compare two directories.

opendiff directory1 directory2

NOTE: FileMerge is a part of the OS X Developer Tools, available on the install disc.

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rsync --daemon --port 9999 --no-detach -v --config .rsyncd.conf

2011-09-22 20:48:31

User: pykler

Functions: rsync

Tags: backup copy unix rsync daemon rsync daemon

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Start a quick rsync daemon for fast copying on internal secure network

An example config file is placed in the sample output along with the command line call to use it.

The rsync daemon here is setup on the destination, thus requiring the read only = false flag. Also it uses uid and gid of root, change as required.

exec 3<>/dev/tcp/whatismyip.com/80; echo -e "GET /automation/n09230945.asp HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: whatismyip.com\r\n" >&3; a=( $(cat <&3) ); echo ${a[${#a[*]}-1]};

2009-11-03 21:57:00

User: yaccovs

Functions: cat echo exec

Tags: Network IP external

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Get your external IP address

bash neto..

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awk 'BEGIN { srand(); print rand() }'

2010-08-07 14:33:12

User: dennisw

Functions: awk

Tags: random number

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Random Decimal in the interval 0 ≤ n < 1 and 2d6 dice roll

2d6 dice:

awk 'BEGIN { srand(); a=int(rand()*6)+1; b=int(rand()*6)+1; print a " + " b " = " a+b }'

3 + 6 = 9

ifconfig -a|grep Bcast:|cut -d\: -f2|awk '{print $1}'

2009-12-04 21:00:46

User: metalx1000

Functions: awk cut grep ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig cut ip address awk grep

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Return IP Address

grabs your local IP Address.

ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u

2010-07-07 12:29:46

User: dfaulkner

Functions: cut ps sort

Tags: sort sorting ps users processes

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Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system

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locate searchstring | xargs grep foo

2009-04-16 12:51:24

User: zimon

Functions: grep locate xargs

Tags: grep locate

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Find 'foo' in located files

Greps located files for an expression.

Example greps all LaTeX files for 'foo':

locate *.tex | xargs grep foo

To avoid searching thousands of files with grep it could be usefull to test first how much files are returned by locate:

locate -c *.tex

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wget -O gsplitter.crx "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&x=id%3Dlnlfpoefmdfplomdfppalohfbmlapjjo%26uc%26lang%3Den-US&prod=chrome&prodversion=8.0.552.224" ; google-chrome --load-extension gspliter.crx

2010-12-14 19:12:18

User: strzel_a

Functions: wget

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Execute extension with chrome

Download Gsplitter extension, and execute it with Chrome !

Or download it here :

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/lnlfpoefmdfplomdfppalohfbmlapjjo

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buf () {oldname=$1; if [ "$oldname" != "" ]; then datepart=$(date +%Y-%m-%d); firstpart=`echo $oldname | cut -d "." -f 1`; newname=`echo $oldname | sed s/$firstpart/$firstpart.$datepart/`; cp -i ${oldname} ${newname}; fi }

2010-12-14 19:58:34

User: Seebi

Functions: cp cut date sed

Tags: backup date function cp

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Backup a file with a date-time stamp

This backup function preserve the file suffix allowing zsh suffix aliases and desktop default actions to work with the backup file too.

egrep '(expr1|expr2)' file

2011-07-14 14:22:11

User: evandrix

Functions: egrep

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Regex or

to find occurances of expr1 OR expr2

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python3 -m http.server 80 &

2012-08-15 09:37:25

User: huazhihao

Tags: python3

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Serve current dir with python3

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