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0du -h / | grep -w "[0-9]*G"
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vie myscript will find where myscript is, and then use vi to edit that file. Not much trick, but saves typing if you use it a lot.
0vie(){vi $(which $1)} -
0git submodule status | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -P5 -n1 git submodule update --init
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Lauching an app including jars in an adjacent lib folder to its classpath
0java -jar app.jar -cp $(echo lib/*.jar | tr ' ' ':') -
Using the gcalcli interface to google calendar, print the calendar for the next 2 weeks according to the width of the terminal being used. * Remove "--mon" to start week on sunday, * Change 2 for more or less weeks
gcalcli --mon --width $((COLUMNS/8)) calmfor whole month Show Sample Output0gcalcli --mon --width $((COLUMNS/8)) calw 2 -
Choose the /var/log/sa/saXX log based on what day you want to view. You can use ifconfig to find the name of the interface. You can use the -s flag to specify a certain time period, e.g. -s 12:00:00 -e 14:00:00 Show Sample Output
0sar -n DEV -f /var/log/sa/sa05 |awk '{if ($3 == "IFACE" || $3 == "eth0" || $2 == "eth0") {print}}' -
Mac OSX friendly version of google function Show Sample Output
0function google { Q="$@";GOOG_URL='https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=';AGENT="Mozilla/4.0";stream=$(curl -A "$AGENT" -skLm 10 "${GOOG_URL}${Q//\ /+}");echo "$stream" | grep -o "href=\"/url[^\&]*&" | sed 's/href=".url.q=\([^\&]*\).*/\1/';} -
Replace the credentials to psql if necessary, and the my-query part with your query. Show Sample Output
0psql -U quassel quassel -c "SELECT message FROM backlog ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 1000;" | grep my-query -
0nohup StartMand.sh -e -b -d mandala.cfg GET_FILES SALES_TRX AGG_TRX &
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minimal oneliner to keep track of time Show Sample Output
0read year month day hour minutes seconds epoch _ < <(date '+%Y %m %d %H %M %S %s') -
If you want to change it to find other ebook format change the find extension and the output extensions for whatever that is.
0$find . -name '*.mobi' -exec ebook-convert {} {}.epub \; -
after this command, only needs press ESC to edit command line.
0set -o vi -
Tests to see if stdin (0) is NOT a terminal. Tests to see if stdout (1) IS a terminal. Copies stdout (opened for write) to stdin (open for read). Show Sample Output
0[ ! -t 0 ] && [ -t 1 ] && exec 0<&1 -
0grep '^\(default\|smtp\|relay\)[^ ]*concurrency[^ ]*'
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0obase=16; echo "$(date +%s)" | bc | xxd -r -p | base32
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0nc -vz -u 8.8.8.8 53
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0find . -type f -regex '.*\.\(cpp\|h\)' -exec sed -i 's/^[[:blank:]]\+$//g' {} \;
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As a user, deletes all your posts from a MyBB board (provided you have the search page listings of all your posts saved into the same directory this command is run from). Full command: for i in *; do cat $i | grep pid | sed -e 's/;/\ /g' -e 's/#/\ /g' -e 's/pid=/\ /g' | awk -F ' ' '{print $2}' >> posts.txt; done; for c in `cat posts.txt`; do curl --cookie name= --data-urlencode name=my_post_key=\&delete=1\&submit=Delete+Now\&action=deletepost\&pid=$c --user-agent Firefox\ 3.5 --url http://url/editpost.php?my_post_key=\&delete=1\&submit=Delete+Now\&action=deletepost\&pid=$c; sleep 2s; done; echo
0curl --cookie name=<cookie_value> --data-urlencode name=my_post_key=<post_key>\&delete=1\&submit=Delete+Now\&action=deletepost\&pid=$c --user-agent Firefox\ 3.5 --url http://url/editpost.php?my_post_key=<post_key>\&delete=1\&submit=Delete+Now\&action=dele -
0grep -i -f password_tokens sslstrip.log | awk ' BEGIN { RS="&" } { print $1 }' | grep -i -f tokens_file
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0while pkill -0 prog1; do sleep 10; done; prog2
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0SIZE=`fdisk -s /dev/sdx`; dd if=/dev/sdx bs=1M | pv -s "$SIZE"k > hdd.img
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Creates the .ssh directory on the remote host with proper permissions, if it doesnt exist. Appends your public key to authorized_keys, and verifies it has proper permissions. (if it didnt exist it may have been created with undesireable permissions). *Korn shell syntax, may or may not work with bash
0ssh <user>@<host> 'mkdir -m 700 ~/.ssh; echo ' $(< ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) ' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ; chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys' -
exiftool can also extract the 'comment' into a file :) Show Sample Output
0exiftool '-comment<=ubuntu-11.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent' hello.jpg -
Just added maxdepth
0find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -
Assuming a convention looking group file, this command will eject oldspiderman from the leagueofsuperfriends group and add newspiderman: oldspiderman:x:551: aquaman:x:552: superman:x:553: newspiderman:x:554: leagueofsuperfriends:x:1000:superman,oldspiderman,superman,aquaman
0sed -i.awkbak "s/\([:,]\)oldspiderman/\1newspiderman/" /etc/group - ‹ First < 408 409 410 411 412 > Last ›
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