All commands

bash

Paste what you previously wrote in INSERT MODE, for example:

1. Write 'foo' in INSERT MODE

2. Return to NORMAL MODE

3. Press "." and it will paste 'foo'

Get external IP of the current machine via http://cmyip.com

when you can do it , avoid pipe

A script that checks if your environment is correctly configured for using cobbler.

doesnt require knowing the password to pdf

Also works with files:

Hello world

SGVsbG8gd29ybGQK

To decrypt use the -d option:

Hello world

Kills all processes owned by user MYWIFE (replace MYWIFE with username or ID of your choice)

(Thanks, porges, for the better command)

Windows

For those files in current folder that would be shown in `ls *ext`, for some extension ext, move/rename that file removing the .ext suffix from the file name.

It uses Bash's parameter substitution, as seen in

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PCTPATREF

(for analog use in prefix, see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PSOREX2 )

Search in all html files and remove the lines that 'String' is found.

Find and kill multiple instances of a process with one simple command.

Loads your CPU, run a instance for each CPU/CORE.

use manpages, they give you "ultimate commands"

"ls -SshF --color" list by filesize (biggest at the top)

"ls -SshFr --color" list by filesize in reverse order (biggest at the bottom)

If curl isn't available, use lynx.

Force empties the user trash

use xdg-open without looking at error messages

examples msg:

(nautilus:3955): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: Notebook.css:21:15: Junk at end of value

Replace D drive with mounted ISO virtual drive and Replace E with your USB drive letter.

avoid rm to be recursive until you complete the command: put the -rf at the end!

Useful for situations where you have word lists or dictionaries that range from hundreds of megabytes to several gigabytes in size. Replace file.lst with your wordlist, replace 50000 with however many lines you want the resulting list to be in total. The result will be redirected to output.txt in the current working directory. It may be helpful to run wc -l file.lst to find out how many lines the word list is first, then divide that in half to figure out what value to put for the head -n part of the command.

Good for finding outdated timthumb.php scripts which need to be updated, anything over 2.0 should be secure, below that timthimb is vulnerable and can be used to compromise your website.

my $.02