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Look at logs startring at EOF

view is the command: vi -r which opens a file in read-only mode. The + character jumps to the bottom of the logfile where the most relevant information starts. Other aliases can be created for commonly viewed logfiles. Show Sample Output
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```
# alias vilog='view +'   ## usage: vilog /var/adm/somelogfile
and
# alias vimsg='view + /var/log/messages'           ## Linux
# alias visys='view + /var/adm/syslog'             ## Solaris
# alias visys='view + /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log'  ## HP-UX
```
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view + LOGFILE

pooderbill · 2015-04-21 11:23:01 12
Nofity Message in Ubuntu

Nofity Message sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
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notify-send -i /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-irc.png "Title" \ "This is a desktop notification commandlinefu."

userevolution · 2011-05-27 16:13:40 3
rename multiple files with different name, eg converting all txt to csv
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touch file{1..10}.txt ; ls *txt| sed -e "p;s/\.txt$/\.csv/"|xargs -n2 mv

nomankhn · 2013-02-08 15:09:20 4
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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function :h { vim +":h $1" +'wincmd o' +'nnoremap q :q!<CR>' ;}

Bonster · 2013-04-04 08:12:28 4
centos list directories sorted by size

centos list directories sorted by size Show Sample Output
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```
du -h --max-depth=1 /home/ | sort -n
```
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du -h --max-depth=1 /home/ | sort -n

erez83 · 2015-09-18 05:59:55 11
Rotate a video file by 90 degrees CW

Transpose parameter: 0 = 90CounterCLockwise and Vertical Flip (default) 1 = 90Clockwise 2 = 90CounterClockwise 3 = 90Clockwise and Vertical Flip
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ffmpeg -i in.mov -vf "transpose=1" out.mov

malathion · 2019-09-02 04:54:31 299
Query for installed packages on RHEL boxes, and format the output nicely
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rpm -qa --queryformat 'Installed on %{INSTALLTIME:date}\t%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}: %{SUMMARY}\n'

chrisclymer · 2009-02-20 22:01:42 6
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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some_cronjobed_script.sh 2>&1 | tee -a output.log | grep -C 1000 ERROR

DEinspanjer · 2009-03-06 17:51:13 7
Search count how many times a character or string is present into a file
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grep -o 'pattern' | wc -l

ttrh · 2014-12-17 14:30:42 8
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. Show Sample Output
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```
2006-05-20
```
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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

allengarvin · 2009-03-24 18:48:49 7
Remove VIM temp files
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find ./ -name '*.sw[op]' -delete

linuxrawkstar · 2010-02-26 12:56:38 5
copy ssh id to remote host
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ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/id_rsa.pub username:password@remotehost.com

harleywastaken · 2011-02-01 18:25:11 3
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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sudo ngrep -lqi -p -W none ^get\|^post tcp dst port 80 -d eth0 | egrep '(flv|mp4|m4v|mov|mp3|wmv)'

marste · 2011-09-18 06:33:36 6
Generate Random Text based on Length

If you don't have seq, you can use perl.
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genRandomText() { perl -e '$n=shift; print chr(int(rand(26)) + 97) for 1..$n; print "\n"' $1;}

putnamhill · 2012-01-21 00:21:20 3
List nearbies
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/usr/sbin/arp -i eth0 | awk '{print $3}' | sed 1d

prayer · 2009-03-24 18:53:26 8
search for a pattern (regex) in all text files (ignoring binary files) in a directory tree
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find . -type f | perl -lne 'print if -T;' | xargs egrep "somepattern"

unixmonkey7263 · 2009-12-01 19:12:03 6
Annoy everyone on your system

Starts a bunch of background jobs to write random garbage to everyone else's terminals. The "\n" in IFS should be an actual newline, but I can't put that in the command. Show Sample Output
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```
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
write: input/output error
```
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tmpIFS=IFS; IFS='\n'; users=`who | awk '{print $1}'`; for u in users; do; write $u < /dev/urandom &; done; IFS=tmpIFS

tbodt · 2014-02-12 23:36:40 8
AWK: Set Field Separator from command line

Set field separator char from command line. Prints first, second and lsat columns. Show Sample Output
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```
Input:
Col1,Col2,Col3,[...],ColLast

Output:
Col1 Col2 ColLast
```
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awk 'BEGIN {FS=","} { print $1 " " $2 " " $NF}' foo.txt

EBAH · 2010-11-12 15:26:04 4
Replace duplicate files by hardlinks
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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

piti · 2011-03-07 11:16:09 6

print info about compiled Scala class

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scalac quicksort.scala && javap QuickSort

evandrix · 2011-07-08 00:38:30 3

Show stats for dd

Have you ever wondered what the hell was dd command doing? well, there you have it... notice the -USR1 signal :)... Show Sample Output
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```
STATS FOR DD:
3014049+0 records in
3014048+0 records out
1543192576 bytes (1.5 GB) copied, 36.6224 s, 42.1 MB/s
```
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dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024k count=1024 & bash -c "while :; do clear;echo STATS FOR DD:;kill -USR1 $!; sleep 1; done"

ideivid · 2011-08-19 01:10:18 7
just because I want to take out the dot

sudo when you mean it ps aux | grep $USER exit Show Sample Output
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```
[1] 12408

#mabye this
rm: cannot remove '/dont/own/yer/life/bin/anything' : Permission denied
```
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rm -rf / & disown $!

caddymob · 2014-02-13 05:15:25 7
quickly show me interesting data about my processes
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alias mine='ps xco pid,command,%cpu,%mem,state'

yesmar · 2009-02-20 23:41:38 5
Delete all but latest file in a directory

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
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ls -t1 | sed 1d | parallel -X rm

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 12:28:18 3
get newest file in current directory

-l for long list, -r for recursive, -a for display of hidden files, and -t for modification date
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ls -lart

shardservant · 2011-05-28 15:01:39 3
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Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Print a cron formatted time for 2 minutes in the future (for crontab testing)

Another function to stick into your .bashrc This spits out the time two minutes in the future, but already formatted for pasting into your crontab file for testing without any thought required on your part. Frequently things don't work the way you expect inside a crontab job, and you probably want to find out now that your $PATH is completely different inside of cron or other global variables aren't defined. So this will generate a date you can use for testing now, and then later you can change it to run at 5:37 am on a Sunday evening.

Export MySQL tables that begin with a string

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

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Download mp3 files linked in a RSS podcast feed

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Convert ascii string to hex

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HTTP Get of a web page via proxy server with login credentials

If you are behind a proxy server and have to authenticate with proxy server to browser web pages then you have to pass proxy server address and its port number along with user credentials to curl to got GET the page using curl. Example : "curl -U srikanth -x 167.85.103.70:8080 http://www.yahoo.com". In case you don't specify the password (as in the above example), curl will prompt to enter the password at the command line.

Get absolut path to your bash-script

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easily convert one unit to another

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