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complete -W "$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sed -e s/,.*//g | uniq | grep -v "\["`;)" ssh
2011-06-01 23:21:06
User: sammcj
Tags: ssh bashrc tab completion
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Enable tab completion for known SSH hosts
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alias ':q'='exit'; alias ':e'='vim';
2012-08-12 12:35:10
User: expelledboy
Functions: alias
Tags: vim alias
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Alias nasty quick vim habits

This was me just succumbing to the habits, but now I rarely use quit or vim directly, so beware! :)

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watch "ss -nat | awk '"'{print $1}'"' | sort | uniq -c"
2012-12-07 19:07:33
User: ricardofunke
Functions: watch
Tags: monitoring netstat tcp ss connections
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Monitoring TCP connections number

Monitoring TCP connections number showing each state. It uses ss instead of netstat because it's much faster with high trafic.

You can fgrep specific ports by piping right before awk:

watch "ss -nat | fgrep :80 | awk '"'{print $1}'"' | sort | uniq -c"

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ps -e | grep SearchStringHere
2009-02-05 15:41:00
User: Sanjay
Functions: grep ps
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Search for a running process through grep
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pgrep <name>
2010-02-28 22:59:33
User: alesplin
Tags: grep ps
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psgrep

You'll need to install proctools. MacPorts and Fink have this if you're running Mac OS X, check your Linux distribution's repositories if it isn't installed by default.

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kill -9 `ps -u user -o "pid="`
2011-08-20 00:03:37
User: unixmonkey24730
Functions: kill
Tags: Shutdown
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Removing Backgroud Process
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wget http://tools.web4host.net/versions.tmp --quiet -O - | grep PHPMYADMIN | sed 's/PHPMYADMIN=//' | cat
2011-09-22 04:11:44
User: wr8cr8
Functions: grep sed wget
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Get the latest version of phpMyAdmin

This is to get the latest version of phpMyAdmin to support scripts to download the latest version of the software if they want to automatically update.

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alias lso="sudo lsof -i -T -n"
2009-05-14 04:01:05
User: professoralex
Functions: alias
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alias for lsof -i -T -n

list what applications using what ports

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who -m | sed 's/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/'
2011-09-22 10:28:30
User: keymon
Functions: sed who
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Get the host from where you logged in

Will print the host associated with the current stdin.

This is useful to set the DOIT_SERVER for the doit remote execution agent ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/doit/ )

export DOIT_HOST=$(who -m | sed 's/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/')

Note that SSH_CLIENT variable can be lost if you use su or sudo (if set to reset vars)

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RANGE=500;number=$RANDOM let "number %= $RANGE"; echo "Random number less than $RANGE --- $number"
2010-08-06 13:16:52
User: 4fthawaiian
Functions: echo
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Random number less than X
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lynx -dump http://www.domain.com | grep http| awk '{print $2 }'
2010-09-03 23:46:32
User: metalx1000
Functions: awk grep
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Get all links of a website
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firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote
2010-10-08 14:40:18
User: rovr138
Tags: profile firefox multiple
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Simultaneously running different Firefox profiles

If you need to create a profile and are already running Firefox, you don't need to close it to do it. Also, if you don't know the exact name of the profile, this would allow you to pick from a list.

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echo "12345,12346" |sed -e's/ //'|tr "," "\n"| while read line; do echo -n $line" "; svn log -vr $line https://url/to/svn/repository/|grep "/"|head -1|cut -d"/" -f2; done
2009-04-15 15:21:20
User: psytek
Functions: cut echo grep head read sed tr
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Find the svn directory that a commit was made in. Usefull if you have many projects in one repository.
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current_dir=$(cd $(dirname $BASH_SOURCE);pwd)
2011-04-18 09:24:14
User: xeor
Functions: cd dirname
Tags: Process Management parameter expansion special parameters
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Find out the starting directory of a script

I think this is the cleanest way of getting the current working directory of a script. It also works on osx, Linux, and probably bsd as well..

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sudo lsof -iTCP:25
2013-11-20 08:26:37
User: netaxiz
Functions: sudo
Tags: Network open socket port open/close
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Check if TCP port 25 is open
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ps -ef | grep APP | awk '/grep/!{print$2}' | xargs -i kill {}
2009-02-05 16:10:05
User: hooobs
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
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find and kill a pid for APP

Probably posted previously, I use this all the time to find and kill a process for "APP". Simply replace "APP" with the name of the process you're looking to kill.

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cd $OLDPWD
2012-04-16 21:18:27
User: khopesh
Functions: cd
Tags: cd
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change to the previous working directory

This is like `cd -` but doesn't echo the new directory name, which is preferable (to me) for an alias, e.g.

alias cdo="cd $OLDPWD"
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pkill -f foo
2009-02-05 16:12:53
User: archlich
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kill all processes with name or argument

Be careful when issuing this command, it may kill unwanted processes!

To only search on the process name don't use the argument -f, pkill foo

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for x in *.dat;do sort -k 3 $x >tmp && mv -f tmp $x;done
2010-07-07 07:57:37
User: rajarshi
Functions: mv sort
Tags: sorting
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Sort all the ".dat" files in current directory by column 3 (change it accordingly), and replace the sorted one with original.

We normally get tasks in which one has to sort a data file according to some column. For a single file say foo, we would use

sort -k 3 foo >tmp && tmp foo

The for loop is useful when we have to do it on a number of files.

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yes 1 | fdupes -rd $folder
2011-06-02 18:15:24
User: torrid
Functions: yes
Tags: deduplicate
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delete duplicate files

This command deletes all but the first occurrence of a duplicate file in one or more folders.

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nautilus "$pwd"
2013-02-15 17:25:10
User: breakersall
Tags: Ubuntu nautilus
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Opens the ubuntu file browser from current directory.
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awk '{print(substr($0,1,5))}' file
2009-10-05 18:58:49
User: servermanaged
Functions: awk
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Laminate a file

Consider this file :

laminate

this

file

with awk

hello to

commandlinefu

I can use awk substring to laminate words :

lamin

this

file

with

hello

comma

Similar to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2000/laminate-files-line-by-line

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cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | sort
2010-07-07 12:12:02
User: dog
Functions: cut
Tags: sort sed cut sorting users
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Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
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lynx -dump http://domaim.com | egrep -o -e 'http://[/0-9a-z.]+html'
2010-09-04 17:49:12
User: yababay
Functions: egrep
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Get all links of a website
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netstat -lntp
2013-11-20 10:02:10
User: fr00tyl00p
Functions: netstat
Tags: Network open socket port open/close
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Check if TCP port 25 is open
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