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Login as another user in shell
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su <username>

dsetton · 2014-02-01 19:45:37 6
shell bash iterate number range with for loop

iterating range of numer with for loop in shell or bash Show Sample Output
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```
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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rangeBegin=10; rangeEnd=20; for numbers in $(eval echo "{$rangeBegin..$rangeEnd}"); do echo $numbers;done

aysadk · 2019-07-26 09:19:44 227
use curl to resume a failed download

If you are downloading a big file (or even a small one) and the connection breaks or times out, use this command in order to RESUME the download where it failed, instead of having to start downloading from the beginning. This is a real win for downloading debian ISO images over a buggy DSL modem. Take the partially downloaded file and cat it into the STDIN of curl, as shown. Then use the "-C -" option followed by the URL of the file you were originally downloading. Show Sample Output
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```
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 17.1M  100 17.1M    0     0   746k      0  0:00:23  0:00:23 --:--:--  793k
```
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cat file-that-failed-to-download.zip | curl -C - http://www.somewhere.com/file-I-want-to-download.zip >successfully-downloaded.zip

linuxrawkstar · 2009-08-05 13:33:06 16
Send web page by e-mail

This will send the web page at $u to recipient@example.com . To send the web page to oneself, recipient@example.com can be replaced by $(whoami) or $USER. The "charset" is UTF-8 here, but any alternative charset of your choice would work. `wget -O - -o /dev/null $u` may be considered instead of `curl $u` . On some systems the complete path to sendmail may be necessary, for instance /sys/pkg/libexec/sendmail/sendmail for some NetBSD.
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{ u="http://twitter.com/commandlinefu"; echo "Subject: $u"; echo "Mime-Version: 1.0"; echo -e "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n"; curl $u ; } | sendmail $USER

pascalvaucheret · 2010-02-24 04:18:30 5
Better PS aliases

#ps aliases PSO='user,pid,ppid,%cpu,%mem,time,start,state,command' PSOA='user,pid,time,state,command' PSOL='user,pid,ppid,%cpu,%mem,nice,pri,etime,time,tt,state,ucomm' export PSO PSOA PSOL function _ps { /bin/ps $@ ; } alias ps='_ps ax -o $PSO' alias psa='_ps ax -o $PSOA' alias psl='_ps ax -o $PSOL' alias psm='_ps -U $USER -o $PSOA'
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export PSOA='user,pid,time,state,command' ; function _ps { /bin/ps $@ ; } ; alias psa='_ps ax -o $PSOA'

mattmartini · 2010-05-27 02:07:56 3
Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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tar -C <source> -cf - . | tar -C <destination> -xf -

Tekhne · 2009-07-10 21:16:23 4
show the log of a branch since its creation

The command show the log of a branch, stopping the output at the time of branch creation.
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svn log . --stop-on-copy

reaper · 2010-02-24 12:37:18 3
Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8080/

Install twistd first with sudo apt-get install python-twistd-web
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twistd -no web

nkorth · 2014-02-01 22:35:50 7
find unmaintained ports that are installed on your system

only works for freeBSD where ports are installed in /usr/ports credit to http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks
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cd /usr/ports; grep -F "`for o in \`pkg_info -qao\` ; \ do echo "|/usr/ports/${o}|" ; done`" `make -V INDEXFILE` | \ grep -i \|ports@freebsd.org\| | cut -f 2 -d \|

grep · 2009-02-16 21:07:35 8
Go to begin of current command line

Go to begin of the current command line.
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CTRL + a

hardest · 2009-03-23 16:41:04 8
Day Date Time> Instead of $ or # at the terminal
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export PS1='\D{%a %D %T}> '

hemanth · 2009-08-22 08:07:47 4
Go to next dir

Add dirs to list: pushd /tmp /tmp ~ then cd - /home/user cd - /tmp
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cd -

magicjohnson_ · 2011-07-05 05:28:32 6
creates a xkcd #936-style password
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RANGE=`wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | sed 's/^$[0-9]*$ .*$/\1/'`; for i in {1..4}; do let "N = $RANDOM % $RANGE"; sed -n -e "${N}p" /usr/share/dict/words | tr -d '\n'; done; RANGE=100; let "N = $RANDOM % $RANGE"; echo $N

unixmonkey24597 · 2011-08-16 07:04:57 3
share single file in LAN via netcat
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while :; do cat file.txt | nc -l 80; done

kev · 2011-09-15 13:16:20 5
make comments invisible when editing a file

you should choose proper color to make comments invisible.
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vim -c'highlight Comment ctermfg=white' my.conf

kev · 2011-10-21 00:53:03 67
Cloning hard disks over the network:

This is a bit to bit copy so if you have a 500GB hard disk it will take a long time even if have Gigabit Ethernet
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Boot up destination machine with Knoppix live CD and run nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda Then on the master dd if=/dev/sda | nc <dest-ip> 9000 You can monitor bandwidth usage to see progress: nload eth0 -u M

lv4tech · 2009-05-07 05:26:58 6
List files that DO NOT match a pattern

There's no need for ls or grep; printf is builtin to most modern shells
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printf "%s\n" !(pattern) ## ksh, or bash with shopt -s extglob

cfajohnson · 2009-11-26 14:09:56 3
Terrorist threat level text

Numbers are less understandable then words. Also this may put out a different result.
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echo "Terrorist threat level: `sed $(perl -e "print int rand(99999)")"q;d" /usr/share/dict/words`"

houghi · 2011-01-28 09:49:37 4
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

Doesn't use shuf, its much faster with "shuf -n4" instead of sort -R Show Sample Output
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trample tylenol parawing bycatch 
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sort -R /usr/share/dict/british | grep -v -m4 ^\{1,10\}$ | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr "\n" " " | tr -d "'s" | xargs -0 echo

takac · 2011-08-16 10:11:21 4
multiline re search recursive
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pcregrep --color -M -N CRLF -e "SQLEngine\.\w+\W*$[^$]*\)" -r --include='\.java$'

hute37 · 2012-01-16 09:19:40 6
Show header HTTP with tcpdump

This is a better way to do the "src X or dst X" filter; plus you might not want to bother with DNS lookups (-n).
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tcpdump -s 1024 -l -A -n host 192.168.9.56

wejn · 2013-02-02 22:29:52 5
Dump an aspell dictionary as a word list
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aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l en expand > words

xocoalt · 2014-05-05 21:28:24 7
bored of listing files with ls wanna see them in file browser in gnome try this

Opens the current working directory in the user's preferred application using freedesktop.org's xdg-open.
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xdg-open .

schlaegel · 2010-10-05 04:20:31 6
Convert windows text file to linux text document
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sed 's/.$//' Win-file.txt

totti · 2011-09-15 19:07:51 4
Show the system properties in a Sun VirtualBox server

How to show the system properties of a Sun VirtualBox server
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VBoxManage list systemproperties

0disse0 · 2010-04-23 06:43:49 6
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Simple top directory usage with du flips for either Linux or base Solaris

No need to type out the full OR clause if you know which OS you're on, but this is easy cut-n-paste or alias to get top ten directories by singleton. To avoid the error output from du -xSk you could always 2>/dev/null but you might miss relevant STDERR.

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Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.

Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

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Encodes HTML entities from input (file or stdin) so it's possible to directly past the result to a blog or HTML source file.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

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Extract rpm package name, version and release using some fancy sed regex

This command could seem pretty pointless especially when you can get the same result more easily using the rpm builtin queryformat, like: $ rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" | sort | column -t but nonetheless I've learned that sometimes it can be quite interesting trying to explore alternative ways to accomplish the same task (as Perl folks like to say: There's more than one way to do it!)

Download Englishword pronounciation as mp3 file

Quick network status of machine

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

pattern match in awk - no grep

Rather than chain a string of greps together and pipe them to awk, use awk to do all the work. In the above example, a string would be output to stdout if it matched pattern1 AND pattern2, but NOT pattern3.

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