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iterating range of numer with for loop in shell or bash Show Sample Output
-1rangeBegin=10; rangeEnd=20; for numbers in $(eval echo "{$rangeBegin..$rangeEnd}"); do echo $numbers;done -
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
-1cat file-that-failed-to-download.zip | curl -C - http://www.somewhere.com/file-I-want-to-download.zip >successfully-downloaded.zip -
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.
-1{ 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 -
#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'
-1export PSOA='user,pid,time,state,command' ; function _ps { /bin/ps $@ ; } ; alias psa='_ps ax -o $PSOA' -
-1tar -C <source> -cf - . | tar -C <destination> -xf -
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The command show the log of a branch, stopping the output at the time of branch creation.
-1svn log . --stop-on-copy -
Install twistd first with
sudo apt-get install python-twistd-web-1twistd -no web -
only works for freeBSD where ports are installed in /usr/ports credit to http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks
-1cd /usr/ports; grep -F "`for o in \`pkg_info -qao\` ; \ do echo "|/usr/ports/${o}|" ; done`" `make -V INDEXFILE` | \ grep -i \|ports@freebsd.org\| | cut -f 2 -d \| -
Go to begin of the current command line.
-1CTRL + a -
-1export PS1='\D{%a %D %T}> '
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Add dirs to list:
pushd /tmp/tmp ~ thencd -/home/usercd -/tmp-1cd - -
-1RANGE=`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
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-1while :; do cat file.txt | nc -l 80; done
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you should choose proper color to make comments invisible.
-1vim -c'highlight Comment ctermfg=white' my.conf -
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
-1Boot 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 -
There's no need for ls or grep; printf is builtin to most modern shells
-1printf "%s\n" !(pattern) ## ksh, or bash with shopt -s extglob -
Numbers are less understandable then words. Also this may put out a different result.
-1echo "Terrorist threat level: `sed $(perl -e "print int rand(99999)")"q;d" /usr/share/dict/words`" -
Doesn't use shuf, its much faster with "shuf -n4" instead of sort -R Show Sample Output
-1sort -R /usr/share/dict/british | grep -v -m4 ^\{1,10\}$ | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr "\n" " " | tr -d "'s" | xargs -0 echo -
-1pcregrep --color -M -N CRLF -e "SQLEngine\.\w+\W*\([^\)]*\)" -r --include='\.java$'
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This is a better way to do the "src X or dst X" filter; plus you might not want to bother with DNS lookups (-n).
-1tcpdump -s 1024 -l -A -n host 192.168.9.56 -
-1aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l en expand > words
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Opens the current working directory in the user's preferred application using freedesktop.org's xdg-open.
-1xdg-open . -
-1sed 's/.$//' Win-file.txt
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How to show the system properties of a Sun VirtualBox server
-1VBoxManage list systemproperties -
Wgets "whatismyip" from checkip.dyndns.org and filters out the actual IP-adress. Usefull when you quickly need to find the outward facting IP-address of your current location. Show Sample Output
-1wget --quiet -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^:]*: //' -e 's/<.*$//' - ‹ First < 472 473 474 475 476 > Last ›
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