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sed 's/$'"/`echo \\\r`/"
2009-02-16 20:07:08
User: fooMan
Functions: sed
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convert Unix newlines to DOS newlines
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lynx --dump "http://checkip.dyndns.org"
2009-10-26 01:26:33
User: lmascarenhas
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What is my ip?
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w3m miip.cl | grep ip
2009-10-26 01:40:37
User: Cont3mpo
Functions: grep
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What is my ip?

See external ip with w3m, simple and fast.

On a web site from Chile (spanish).

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echo "Starting Daemon"; ( while :; do sleep 15; echo "I am still running =]"; done ) & disown -h $!
2010-02-23 19:17:05
User: daleki
Functions: echo sleep
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A little bash daemon =)

You don't want the -ar parameters in this case. The man page for BASH_BUILTINS(1) states:

"-a option means to remove or mark all jobs" and

"-r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs"

In this case we are supplying the process id of the job to disown so neither of these should be used.

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cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -P ^[a-z].* | grep -v "'s$" | grep -Pv ^.\{1,15\}$ | shuf -n4 | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/$/\n/'
2011-08-15 01:03:48
User: bugmenot
Functions: cat grep sed tr
Tags: tr xkcd shuf
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Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

The first grep rejects capitalised words since the dict has proper nouns in it that you mightn't want to use. The second grep rejects words with ending in apostrophe s, and the third forces the words to be at least 15 characters long.

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alias cdc='cd `pwd -P`'
2009-02-05 10:15:11
User: adavies42
Functions: alias
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cd canonical (resolve any symlinks)
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w3m http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/getip_txt.php will return the ip in text format.
2009-10-26 02:24:46
User: raj77_in
Functions: return
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What is my ip?

See more details at http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2008/12/01/get-you-ip-address-like-whatismyipcom/

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wodim foo.iso
2010-02-23 21:58:31
User: SlimG
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Burn an ISO on commandline with wodim instead cdrecord
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sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*"
2009-04-04 01:41:48
User: peterc
Functions: grep sudo tcpdump
Tags: Network Os X grep tcpdump
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Show live HTTP requests being made on OS X

Replace "en1" with your network interface (on OS X, usually en0, en1, eth0, etc..)

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rename 's/ /_/g' *
2011-07-04 06:21:27
User: twjolson
Functions: rename
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Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.
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umount -t smbfs
2012-02-23 10:46:44
User: Velenux
Functions: umount
Tags: samba
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Unmount all mounted SAMBA/Windows shares

smbfs or cifs, depends on which you are using

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< /dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ | head -c $((1024 * 1024)) | tee >(gzip -c > out.gz) >(bzip2 -c > out.bz) > /dev/null
2009-04-04 13:23:01
User: jnash
Functions: bzip2 gzip head tee tr
Tags: bzip2, gzip, compression,
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gzip vs bzip2 at compressing random strings?

Does that count as a win for bzip2?

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cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name
2010-04-22 03:21:40
User: matthewbauer
Functions: cat
Tags: distro hardware system name computer type vendor product
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What Type of Computer Do You Have?

Prints the type of computer you have.

I think this should be used more in distros and other applications because it is so easy to get. This can also be asked by tutorials as an easy way to get your base hardware.

Some alternatives:

sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

and

sudo smbios-sys-info-lite | sed -n 's/^Product Name: *\(.*\)/\1/p'
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/sbin/ifconfig|grep -B 1 inet |head -1 | awk '{print $5}'
2010-04-22 06:35:29
User: octopus
Functions: awk grep head
Tags: Network Linux UNIX
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Find MAC address of Active Eth connection
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tar -C <source> -cf - . | tar -C <destination> -xf -
2009-07-10 21:16:23
User: Tekhne
Functions: tar
Tags: files
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Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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find . -name "*.gz" | xargs -n 1 -I {} bash -c "gunzip -c {} | sort | gzip -c --best > {}.new ; rm {} ; mv {}.new {}"
2009-08-05 14:16:15
User: kennethjor
Functions: bash find xargs
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Rezip a bunch of files

I used this because I needed to sort the content of a bunch of gzipped log files. Replace sort with something else, or simply remove sort to just rezip everything

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while read ; do python <script> ; done
2012-02-23 22:29:09
User: Zulu
Functions: python read
Tags: read script while debug testing
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Quickly re-launch your script (python for example)

Very useful for test a script. After launch this command, you only have to press ENTER for launch your script again. I work with screen and tape ENTER instead of '!!'+ENTER

If you break your script with CTRL-C, it will wait for press ENTER and will re-launch

You can write like it : while read -p "Press ENTER" ; do python ; done

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cat /etc/shadow
2014-02-01 19:48:05
User: dsetton
Functions: cat
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List all password hashes
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ifconfig | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2
2010-12-06 10:36:52
User: dooblem
Functions: cut grep ifconfig
Tags: ifconfig grep cut
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Get your IP addresses

This is what we use.

You can grep -v 127.0.0.1 if you wish.

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find . -type f -exec ls -tr {} +
2010-05-27 14:52:28
User: goodevilgenius
Functions: find ls
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Find files and list them sorted by modification time

List all files from the current directory and subdirectories, sorted by modification time, oldest first.

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command > tmp && cat logfile.txt >> tmp && tmp > logfile.txt && rm tmp
2009-04-05 22:00:32
User: akoumjian
Functions: cat command rm
Tags: file redirection output stdout beginning redirect
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Append output to the beginning of a file.

Adds the stdout (standard output) to the beginning of logfile.txt. Change "command" to whatever command you like, such as 'ls' or 'date', etc. It does this by adding the output to a temporary file, then adding the previous contents of logfile.txt to the temp file, then copying the new contents back to the logfile.txt and removing the temp file.

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CTRL + e
2009-03-23 16:42:10
User: hardest
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Go to end of current command line
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ps auxwww | grep outofcontrolprocess | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
2010-06-30 15:52:52
User: unixmonkey8311
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
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kill all instances of an annoying or endless, thread-spawning process
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kill -9 $(pidof process)
2009-03-23 17:07:55
User: luisuribe
Functions: kill pidof
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Kills all processes for a certain program
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ls -rl --time-style=+%s * | sed '/^$/,/^total [0-9]*$/d' | sort -nk6
2010-05-27 19:14:12
User: putnamhill
Functions: ls sed sort
Tags: sort sed ls
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Find files and list them sorted by modification time

Here's a version that doesn't use find.

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