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ack --java '\\u.?.?.?[^0-9a-fA-F]'
2012-06-06 08:31:56
User: hfs
Tags: java ack unicode
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Find invalid \uxxxx Unicode escape sequences in Java source code

Get 'ack' now at http://betterthangrep.com/

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/sbin/lspci (-v is verbose)
2010-07-02 15:27:37
User: tyjuan79
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FINDING PCI DEVICES
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:%s!^!foo!
2011-04-13 11:57:18
User: miccaman
Tags: vim
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vim insert at beginning of multiple lines
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wget -qO- -U '' 'google.com/search?q=weather' | grep -oP '(-)?\d{1,3}\xB0[FC]'
2012-02-28 22:27:38
User: slaufer
Functions: grep wget
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Weather

Grabs the current weather in your area (or their best guess of your area). Change the query to your zip code/location (e.g. google.com/search?q=weather+jakarta,+india) to get weather somewhere else. change google.com to google.ca or google.co.uk for metric.

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diskutil list
2012-10-06 21:18:27
User: grahamperrin
Tags: partition osx
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detect partitions

List all disks and all of their partitions on OS X. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/diskutil.8.html

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yes 'c=(" " " " " " 0 1); printf "${c[RANDOM%5]}"' | bash
2013-11-09 16:10:41
User: stx
Functions: printf yes
Tags: random Matrix
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Binary digits Matrix effect

Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13611501/bash-version-of-c64-code-art-10-print-chr205-5rnd1-goto-10

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tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' < /dev/urandom | head -c10
2009-12-01 14:22:20
User: Phil
Functions: head tr
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generate random password

A slightly shorter version. Also doesn't put a return character at the end of the password

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curl --ntlm -u DOMAIN/user https://sharepoint.domain.com/path/to/file
2010-11-11 22:22:24
User: sud0er
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Get a file from SharePoint with cURL

If you know the URL of a file on a SharePoint server, it's just a matter of logging in with your AD credentials to get the file with cURL

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truncate foobar.txt
2009-12-29 01:52:12
User: w216
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Empty a file
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feh -d -F -z -D 1 *
2010-02-26 11:06:11
User: ivanatora
Tags: slideshow images feh
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Slideshow of images in the current folder

-d Draw the filename at the top-left of the image

-F fullscreen

-z randomize

-D 1 - delay 1 second between changing slides

This command will show images in subdirectories as well.

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calc() { echo "scale=4; ${*//,/.}" | bc -l; }
2011-10-24 19:58:20
User: fpunktk
Functions: bc echo
Tags: bash function python calc
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Command line calculator

This is an "argument calculator" funktion. The precision is set to 4 and you can use dot (.) or comma (,) as decimal mark (which is great for german users with a comma on the numpad).

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notify-send -i /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-irc.png "Title" \ "This is a desktop notification commandlinefu."
2011-05-27 16:13:40
User: userevolution
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Nofity Message in Ubuntu

Nofity Message

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

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touch file{1..10}.txt ; ls *txt| sed -e "p;s/\.txt$/\.csv/"|xargs -n2 mv
2013-02-08 15:09:20
User: nomankhn
Functions: ls sed touch xargs
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rename multiple files with different name, eg converting all txt to csv
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function :h { vim +":h $1" +'wincmd o' +'nnoremap q :q!<CR>' ;}
2013-04-04 08:12:28
User: Bonster
Functions: vim
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call vim help page from shell prompt

simple function i found somewhere to open vim help page from the shell

use :h like you would in vim

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rpm -qa --queryformat 'Installed on %{INSTALLTIME:date}\t%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}: %{SUMMARY}\n'
2009-02-20 22:01:42
User: chrisclymer
Functions: rpm
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Query for installed packages on RHEL boxes, and format the output nicely
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some_cronjobed_script.sh 2>&1 | tee -a output.log | grep -C 1000 ERROR
2009-03-06 17:51:13
User: DEinspanjer
Functions: grep tee
Tags: Linux
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Log output from a cronjob to a file, but also e-mail if a string is found

The large context number (-C 1000) is a bit of a hack, but in most of my use cases, it makes sure I'll see the whole log output.

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date -d "@$(find dir -type f -printf '%C@\n' | sort -n | sed -n "$(($(find dir -type f | wc -l)/2))p")" +%F
2009-03-24 18:48:49
User: allengarvin
Functions: date dir find wc
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Find the median file modification time of files in a directory tree

I needed to get a feel for how "old" different websites were, based on their directories.

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find ./ -name '*.sw[op]' -delete
2010-02-26 12:56:38
User: linuxrawkstar
Functions: find
Tags: vim find
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Remove VIM temp files
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ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/id_rsa.pub username:password@remotehost.com
2011-02-01 18:25:11
User: harleywastaken
Functions: ssh
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copy ssh id to remote host
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sudo ngrep -lqi -p -W none ^get\|^post tcp dst port 80 -d eth0 | egrep '(flv|mp4|m4v|mov|mp3|wmv)'
2011-09-18 06:33:36
User: marste
Functions: egrep sudo
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Discover media files from a web page

Discover host and url of media files (ex. flv, mp4, m4v..).

It locate the urls of audio and video files so that they can be recorded.

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genRandomText() { perl -e '$n=shift; print chr(int(rand(26)) + 97) for 1..$n; print "\n"' $1;}
2012-01-21 00:21:20
User: putnamhill
Functions: perl
Tags: perl random for loop
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Generate Random Text based on Length

If you don't have seq, you can use perl.

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/usr/sbin/arp -i eth0 | awk '{print $3}' | sed 1d
2009-03-24 18:53:26
User: prayer
Functions: awk sed
Tags: Network
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List nearbies
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find . -type f | perl -lne 'print if -T;' | xargs egrep "somepattern"
2009-12-01 19:12:03
User: unixmonkey7263
Functions: egrep find perl xargs
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search for a pattern (regex) in all text files (ignoring binary files) in a directory tree
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awk 'BEGIN {FS=","} { print $1 " " $2 " " $NF}' foo.txt
2010-11-12 15:26:04
User: EBAH
Functions: awk
Tags: awk field separator
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AWK: Set Field Separator from command line

Set field separator char from command line.

Prints first, second and lsat columns.

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fdupes -r -1 path | while read line; do j="0"; for file in ${line[*]}; do if [ "$j" == "0" ]; then j="1"; else sudo ln -f ${line// .*/} $file; fi; done; done
2011-03-07 11:16:09
User: piti
Functions: file ln read sudo
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Replace duplicate files by hardlinks
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