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fromdos <file>
2011-02-14 17:28:53
User: jbuitt
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Convert DOS newlines (CR/LF) to Unix format

requires the package tofrodos on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install tofrodos

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for i in {1..40};do echo -n $i. $(date +%H:%M:%S):\ ; (time curl 'http://ya.ru/' &> /dev/null) 2>&1|grep real;sleep 1;done
2011-11-11 10:40:38
User: AntonyC
Functions: date echo grep sleep time
Tags: curl
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measure answer time of a web service

This uses curl to find out the access times of a web service

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perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' $(grep -l foo ./*)
2009-03-27 17:18:08
User: dopeman
Functions: grep perl
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Change all instances of a word in all files in the current directory

This command will replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in the current working directory.

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uuid
2009-08-14 14:02:37
User: linuxrawkstar
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Generate a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier

http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/

You'll first need to install the uuid package. Available immediately from apt in Ubuntu, Debian, or other myriad Debian variants. You could always compile it from source as well.

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du -sh * | grep -v '\.\/\.'
2010-04-10 23:19:46
User: marcopferreira
Functions: du grep
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List complete size of directories (do not consider hidden directories)
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while $i;do `notify-send -t 200 "You are awesome :)"`;sleep 60; done;
2011-02-14 18:49:38
User: pahnin
Functions: sleep
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Get Informed by your box that you are awesome ;)

sends notification msg within repeated intervals of time to notify-send ;)

Just for fun.

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df | awk '{if ($2!=dspace) print "different"; dspace=$2;}'
2013-03-08 12:09:35
User: adimania
Functions: awk df
Tags: awk df
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Useful to check if the disks as of same size or not. Helpful in checking Raid configs
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find . | sort | awk 'NR%2==0' | xargs rm $1
2013-07-11 07:36:18
User: sucotronic
Functions: awk find rm sort xargs
Tags: backup space clean
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purge half of files in backup directory

If you have a directory with lot of backups (full backups I mean), when it gets to some size, you could want to empty some space. With this command you'll remove half of the files. The command assumes that your backup files starts with YYYYMMDD or that they go some alphabetical order.

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perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' $(grep -rl foo ./*)
2009-03-27 17:21:35
User: dopeman
Functions: grep perl
Tags: perl
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Change all instances of a word in all files in the current directory and it's sub-directories

This command will replace all instances of 'foo' with 'bar' in all files in the current working directory and any sub-directories.

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lsfo -i :[port number]
2010-08-17 19:25:37
User: unixmonkey11400
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For finding out if something is listening on a port and if so what the daemon is.
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curl http://my-ip.cc/host.txt
2011-09-01 00:28:49
User: samleb
Tags: Network curl ip address geoip
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Get your external IP address

Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info

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for ff in directory; do numLines=`wc -l $ff`; numLines=$(echo $numLines | sed 's/ .*//g'); min=$(sort -nrk 1 $ff | tail -1); if [ $numLines -gt 100 ]; then echo $min >> minValues; fi;done;
2013-09-23 04:04:52
User: user1234
Functions: echo sed sort tail
Tags: bash
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find all minimum values in file with at least 100 lines
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man perlcheat | col -b > perlcheat.txt
2009-07-26 10:16:37
User: recursiverse
Functions: col man
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save a manpage to plaintext file
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host -t a dartsclink.com | sed 's/.*has address //'
2009-08-14 16:11:18
User: dartsclink
Functions: host sed
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return external ip

alternative using 'host'

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du -sh `ls -p | grep /`
2010-04-11 02:53:51
User: sarcilav
Functions: du grep
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List complete size of directories (do not consider hidden directories)
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tar -c directory_to_compress/ | pbzip2 -vc > myfile.tar.bz2
2010-08-17 20:29:13
User: maarten
Functions: tar
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tar+pbzip2 a dir
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curl http://my-ip.cc/host.xml
2011-09-01 00:30:03
User: samleb
Tags: Network curl ip address geoip
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Get your external IP address

XML version.

Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info

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cobbler repo add --name=CentOS-5.3-i386-updates --mirror=http://mirror3.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CentOS/5.3/updates/i386/
2009-04-27 10:18:45
User: w00binda
Tags: cobbler
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Create new repo in Cobbler for CentOS 5.3 updates

Add a repo to cobbler. To download all the repository contents the command is:

cobbler reposync
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cal -y
2009-09-02 12:57:23
User: andrepuel
Functions: cal
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Today's date on a yearly calendar...

Show today date on a yearly calendar.

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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort
2009-09-19 13:54:36
User: ktoso
Functions: awk grep netstat uniq
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details.

Has anyone an idea why the uniq doesn't work propperly here (see sample output)?

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curl -s "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=New%20York" | sed 's|.*<temp_f data="\([^"]*\)"/>.*|\1|'
2010-02-08 23:06:48
User: matthewbauer
Functions: sed
Tags: google api weather temperature fahrenheit
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Weather on the Command line

Will return temperature in Fahrenheit of a location (New York City in example).

Uses a Google API.

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cat 1.tar.gz 2.tar.gz | tar zxvif -
2010-05-09 03:50:00
User: psychopenguin
Functions: cat tar
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Merge tarballs

You don't need to create an intermediate file, just pipe the output directly to tar command and use stin as file (put a dash after the f flag).

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function titlescroll { _X=0 _TITLEMSG=$1 _WIDTH=${2:-16} _TITLEMSG=`printf "%$((${#_TITLEMSG}+$_WIDTH))s" "$_TITLEMSG"` while `true` do _X=$(((_X+1)%${#_TITLEMSG})) xtitle "${_TITLEMSG:_X:_WIDTH}" done }
2010-01-12 20:48:46
User: romulusnr
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Scroll a message in a terminal titlebar

Usage:

titlescroll "message" <width>

Requires command "xtitle" or replace with:

echo -ne "\e]0;TEXT_HERE\007"
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find ./ -name Thumbs.db -exec rm -rf '{}' +
2010-08-18 02:55:38
User: thameera
Functions: find rm
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Remove Thumbs.db files from folders
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expr $(fdisk -s ` grep ' / ' /etc/mtab |cut -d " " -f1`) / 1024
2009-05-21 17:25:38
User: ncaio
Functions: cut expr fdisk grep
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Alternative way to get the root directory size in megabytes
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