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Create new repo in Cobbler for CentOS 5.3 updates

Add a repo to cobbler. To download all the repository contents the command is: cobbler reposync
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cobbler repo add --name=CentOS-5.3-i386-updates --mirror=http://mirror3.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CentOS/5.3/updates/i386/

w00binda · 2009-04-27 10:18:45 5
Today's date on a yearly calendar...

Show today date on a yearly calendar.
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cal -y

andrepuel · 2009-09-02 12:57:23 50
Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

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
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```
java          
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
```
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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort

ktoso · 2009-09-19 13:54:36 7
Weather on the Command line

Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example). Uses a Google API. Show Sample Output
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```
35
```
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curl -s "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=New%20York" | sed 's|.*<temp_f data="$[^"]*$"/>.*|\1|'

matthewbauer · 2010-02-08 23:06:48 5
Merge tarballs

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).
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cat 1.tar.gz 2.tar.gz | tar zxvif -

psychopenguin · 2010-05-09 03:50:00 5
Scroll a message in a terminal titlebar

Usage: titlescroll "message" <width> Requires command "xtitle" or replace with: echo -ne "\e]0;TEXT_HERE\007"
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function 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 }

romulusnr · 2010-01-12 20:48:46 3
Remove Thumbs.db files from folders
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find ./ -name Thumbs.db -exec rm -rf '{}' +

thameera · 2010-08-18 02:55:38 6
Remove duplicate lines using awk
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!a[$0]++

Dawn_of_the_Dead · 2014-03-16 01:50:30 6
Alternative way to get the root directory size in megabytes
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expr $(fdisk -s ` grep ' / ' /etc/mtab |cut -d " " -f1`) / 1024

ncaio · 2009-05-21 17:25:38 6
do a full file listing of every file found with locate

Escapes spaces in paths.
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locate -i yourfilename | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs ls -lah | less

unixmonkey23919 · 2011-07-26 13:00:39 4
Get current stable kernel version string from kernel.org

Fetches latest stable release version from first entry between tags Show Sample Output
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```
3.12.5
```
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curl -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}'

Wafelijzer · 2013-12-17 23:59:27 7
Format a flooppy with windows compatible disk

The 1440 is the number of bytes, and the A: specifies the floppy drive.
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mformat -f 1440 A:

eastwind · 2009-12-10 06:51:20 3
[Gentoo] Input modules, commented, in your module.autoload file

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
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```
# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:  kernel modules to load when system boots.
#
# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels.
#
# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system
# starts into this file, one per line.  Comments begin with # and
# are ignored.  Read man modules.autoload for additional details.

# For example:
# aic7xxx
# mixer-oss.ko
# pcm-oss.ko
# seq-device.ko
# seq-oss.ko
# snd-seq.ko
```
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find /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

paragao · 2010-01-13 02:12:08 4
Function to bind MySQL hostport to forward remote MySQL connection to localhost.

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
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```
$ sshmysql [user@]remote-server
[1] 10653
```
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sshmysql() { ssh -L 13306:127.0.0.1:3306 -N $* & }

peterRepeater · 2011-09-01 10:21:55 8
show your locale language keyboard setting

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```
gnu@robby:~$ locale | grep LANG=
LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8
```
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locale | grep LANG=

eastwind · 2009-12-10 07:24:01 5
Play newest or random YouTube video

newly downloaded videos goyoutube random goyoutube rand This command assumes you've already downloaded some YouTube .mp4 or .flv video files via other means. Requires 'shuf', or your own stdin shuffler.
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goyoutube() { 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 }

meathive · 2010-04-11 18:53:49 4
Testing
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who am i | wc -l

himanshu · 2012-03-20 10:32:17 5
View the list of files and directories in an archive with less.

This will print out the files and directories in a gzipped tarball.
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less file.tar.gz

allbad · 2009-03-15 23:00:05 15
All IP connected to my host

find all computer connected to my host through TCP connection Show Sample Output
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```
81.91.145.204
85.133.199.175
85.185.21.146
91.186.200.13
91.189.90.40
91.98.155.188
91.99.41.81
92.50.59.10
94.182.63.188
```
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netstat -nut | awk '$NF=="ESTABLISHED" {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u

bitbasher · 2011-07-27 07:24:10 3
Sum up total size and count of all certain filename pattern/regex
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find -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" }'

taintedkernel · 2010-09-21 15:41:45 3
Run a second copy of Firefox using the same profile on Mac OS X
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(cd /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS; ./firefox-bin -p default --no-remote)

DEinspanjer · 2009-02-18 21:35:02 5
Unlock your KDE4 session remotely (for boxes locked by KDE lock utility)

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.
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killall -s 9 krunner_lock

b2e · 2009-05-21 22:29:06 7
List all available commands
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in bash hit "tab" twice and answer y

sdadh01 · 2009-11-12 17:55:37 4
x bottles of beer on the wall graph

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
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```
See http://tr.im/xbottlesofbeer
```
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(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

matthewbauer · 2010-03-17 21:04:36 4
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories, firm permissions

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
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```
-rw-r-----   1 www-data www-data 3353273 Jun 21 17:58 XP_Help_20100621.zip
drwxr-x---   8 www-data www-data    4096 Jun  3  2009 Widgetized_HomePage
drwxr-x---  12 www-data www-data    4096 Jan 12  2010 Wizard_Old_Concept
drwxr-x---   5 www-data www-data    4096 Oct 21  2009 Wizard_New_Concept
```
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chmod -R u=rw-x+X,g=r-x+X,o= .

donnoman · 2010-07-16 18:42:00 5
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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

search ubuntu packages to find which package contains the executable program programname

search ubuntu's remote package source repositories for a specific program to see which package contains it

adjust laptop display hardware brightness [non root]

Want to known what time is it in another part of the world ?

available timezone can be found in /usr/share/zoneinfo. Other examples: $ TZ=Europe/Paris date; TZ=Australia/Sydney date; TZ=America/New_York date this is based on zoneinfo files on macosx. Your mileage my vary on other unix dialects

Show a git log with offsets relative to HEAD

Print a git log (in reverse order) giving a reference relative to HEAD. HEAD (the current revision) can also be referred to as HEAD~0 The previous revision is HEAD~1 then HEAD~2 etc. . Add line numbers to the git output, starting at zero: $ ... | nl -v0 | ... . Insert the string 'HEAD~' before the number using sed: $ ... | sed 's/^ \+/&HEAD~/' . Thanks to bartonski for the idea :-)

Show webcam output

Show the webcam output with mplayer.

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Convert spaces in file names to underscores

Sets shell timeout

Useful in root's .profile - will auto-logout after TMOUT seconds of inactivity. Close after `seconds` inactive. export TMOUT=seconds (unefunge)

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