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Print RPM dependencies

Needs rpmorphan installed Show Sample Output
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```
filesystem
glibc
glibc-common
libgcc
ncurses-base
ncurses-libs
nss-softokn-freebl
setup
tzdata
```
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ruby -e 'puts `rpmdep glibc`.split(",")[2..-1]'

rubiojr · 2011-10-26 16:44:59 4
find and output files content with filtering by filename and specific string
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find . -name *.properties -exec /bin/echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; | grep -E 'listen|properties'

altern · 2014-02-17 02:25:49 7
Make syslog reread its configuration file
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pkill -HUP syslogd

rimaya · 2009-02-09 09:32:06 8
delete a file and links based on inode number.

This command, when run from the directory containing "filename", will remove the file and any hard or symbolic links to the file.
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ls -ai | grep filename | find . -inum `awk '{print $1}'` -exec rm {} \;

YogiBare · 2011-02-04 10:29:54 7
Print the lastest stable version of Perl

This uses wget instead of curl
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wget -q -O - http://www.perl.org/get.html | grep -m1 '\.tar\.gz' | sed 's/.*perl-//; s/\.tar\.gz.*//'

dbbolton · 2011-08-19 23:38:10 3
glance
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glance -m

zjs_cha · 2014-05-27 02:21:10 7
Remove everything except that file

This is a slight variation of an existing submission, but uses regular expression to look for files instead. This makes it vastly more versatile, and one can easily verify the files to be kept by running ls | egrep "[REGULAR EXPRESSION]"
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ls | egrep -v "[REGULAR EXPRESSION]" | xargs rm -v

Saxphile · 2010-04-01 02:40:40 4
MySQL: Find an instance of a populated table across numerous databases

Pulls all instances of table out of information schema, executes a SELECT COUNT(*) on each table/database instance, and then strips out any empty tables. Show Sample Output
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```
sandbox_cathdrwg_client1: 1
sandbox_cathdrwg_client2: 5
sandbox_cathdrwg_client3: 1
```
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TABLE_NAME=YYZ ; for DATABASE in $(echo "SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA FROM information_schema.tables WHERE TABLE_NAME='$TABLE_NAME'" | mysql -N) ; do echo -n "$DATABASE: " ; echo "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $TABLE_NAME" | mysql $DATABASE -N ; done | fgrep -v ': 0'

MutinyEnigmatic · 2011-12-08 16:31:36 3
Reset ownership of a folder/subfolders
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TAKEOWN /A /R /F c:\SomeFolder

mokico · 2013-08-29 01:43:29 13
ps to show child thread PIDs
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ps -efL | grep <Process Name>

tsener · 2014-09-11 16:35:31 8
keytool using BouncyCastle as security provider to add a X509 certificate

This command imports the certificate file cert.pfx into the keystore file, using BouncyCastle as security provider. It was validated using - OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu 8.36.0.1-CA-linux64) - Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_192-ea-b04) - OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 9.0.4+11) - OpenJDK Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.2+9) Show Sample Output
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```
keytool -importcert \
    -providerpath bcprov-jdk15on-1.60.jar \
    -provider org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider \
    -storetype BCPKCS12 \
    -storepass <passphase> \
    -trustcacerts \
    -alias 'aliascert' \
    -file <filename.cer> \
    -keystore keystore
Owner: SERIALNUMBER=XXXXXXXXXX, OU=XXXX, OU=XX, O=XXXXXXXX, C=XX
Issuer: O=XXXXXXX, C=XX
Serial number: XXXXXXXX
...
...
Trust this certificate? [no]:  yes
Certificate was added to keystore
```
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keytool -importcert -providerpath bcprov-jdk15on-1.60.jar -provider org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider -storetype BCPKCS12 -trustcacerts -alias <alias> -file <filename.cer> -keystore <filename>

andresaquino · 2019-02-25 08:39:05 31
Friendly command-not-found message.

This will give you a friendly warning if a command doesn't exists. Show Sample Output
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```
$ aptitypo
...
```
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command_not_found_handle() { echo 6661696c626f61742e2e2e0a | xxd -p -r; }

unixmonkey7301 · 2009-12-03 21:33:35 4
Keep SSH tunnel open (PostgreSQL example)

Check if SSH tunnel is open and open it, if it isn't. NB: In this example, 3333 would be your local port, 5432 the remote port (which is, afaik, usually used by PostgreSQL) and of course you should replace REMOTE_HOST with any valid IP or hostname. The example above let's you work on remote PostgreSQL databases from your local shell, like this: psql -E -h localhost -p 3333
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while true; do nc -z localhost 3333 >|/dev/null || (ssh -NfL 3333:REMOTE_HOST:5432 USER@REMOTE_HOST); sleep 15; done

rxw · 2015-09-21 02:25:49 11
keytool using BouncyCastle as security provider to add a PKCS12 certificate store

This command imports the keystore file cert.pfx into the keystore file, using BouncyCastle as security provider. It was validated using - OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu 8.36.0.1-CA-linux64) - Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_192-ea-b04) - OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 9.0.4+11) - OpenJDK Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.2+9) Show Sample Output
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```
keytool -importkeystore \
    -providerpath bcprov-jdk15on-1.60.jar \
    -provider org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider \
    -srckeystore cert.pfx \
    -srcstoretype pkcs12 \
    -srcalias 1 \
    -destkeystore keystore \
    -deststoretype BCPKCS12 \
    -destalias 'mycert'
Importing keystore cert.pfx to keystore...
```
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keytool -importkeystore -providerpath bcprov.jar -provider BouncyCastleProvider -srckeystore <filename.pfx> -srcstoretype pkcs12 -srcalias <src-alias> -destkeystore <filename.ks> -deststoretype BCPKCS12 -destalias <dest-alias>

andresaquino · 2019-02-25 08:40:18 30
Quickly create simple text file from command line w/o using vi/emacs

thx Montecristo, thx hckhckhck
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cat > {filename} {your text} [^C | ^D]

sphere64 · 2010-06-03 09:02:12 3
Deleting a remote git branch (say, by name 'featureless')

This will delete the branch 'featureless' on the origin remote. Do not forget to delete the branch locally using: git branch -d featureless 'I got it here'-credit: http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/02/02/push-and-delete-branches.html I duplicated here incase you stumbled here first. Show Sample Output
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```
$ git push origin :featureless
To git@github.com:yourname/yourproject.git
 - [deleted]         featureless
```
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git push origin :featureless

b_t · 2011-06-02 14:53:31 3
Check if *hardware* is 32bit or 64bit
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uname -m

wee0x1b · 2013-02-15 17:23:44 4
Return IP Address

Tested on Solaris.
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/usr/sbin/ifconfig -a|awk -F" " 'NR==4{print $2}'

elZaphod · 2009-12-04 18:41:29 4
Show a Package Version on Debian based distribution

If there is update available for the package you can see upgrade is from which version to which version. Also you will get detail about which release the package belongs to (stable/testing/sid). Show Sample Output
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```
apt-show-versions iceweasel 
iceweasel/sid uptodate 3.5.9-3

apt-show-versions kdebase-runtime
kdebase-runtime/sid upgradeable from 4:4.4.3-1 to 4:4.4.4-1
```
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apt-show-versions <packagename>

Vasudev · 2010-06-03 15:52:11 4
this svn script will commit all files excluding those with extensions {.project .classpath .properties .sh .number} and those with Status Modified or Added {M or A}
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svn st | grep -e [MA] | egrep -ve '.project|.classpath|.properties|.sh|.number' | awk -F' ' '{ print $2}' | xargs svn ci -m "message"

drunkcoder · 2011-03-10 15:32:36 6
Describe differences between files

Using sed to print newlines as doing it in one line with diff is non-trivial.
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diff --changed-group-format='differs from line %dF to line %dL|' --unchanged-line-format='' $FILE1 $FILE2 | sed 's/|/\n/'

dullgiulio · 2011-06-02 15:04:36 3
execute a shell with netcat without -e

uses fifo and sets to a specific port. In this case 4201.
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mkfifo ._b; nc -lk 4201 0<._b | /bin/bash &>._b;

gt · 2011-08-21 05:22:41 3
Create nthash
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echo -n "password" | iconv -t utf-16le | openssl dgst -md4

damncool · 2011-09-22 16:29:41 3
Tshark to Generate Top Talkers by #TCP conv started per second.

#_connects src_IP dst_IP When_It_Happened_Secs Show Sample Output
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```
 23 208.127.211.141 170.135.216.181 7
  22 67.142.174.23 170.135.216.181 12
  20 157.93.242.50 170.135.216.181 6
  19 67.142.174.23 170.135.216.181 11
  17 67.160.80.189 170.135.216.181 11
  
```
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tshark -qr [cap] -z conv,tcp | awk '{printf("%s:%s:%s\n",$1,$3,$10)}' | awk -F: '{printf("%s %s %s\n",$1,$3,substr($5,1,length($5)-10))}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

knassery · 2012-10-16 06:39:01 4
df output, sorted by Use% and correctly maintaining header row
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df -h | sort -r -k 5 -i

Mohammad · 2016-12-05 16:00:31 15
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Print a row of 50 hyphens

essentially the ruby one, but perhaps has a larger installed base

Pulls email password out of Plesk database for given email address.

This simply pulls the password out of the database for the given mail name for ease of use in testing emails that you would not normally have access to.

Quick screenshot

Requires ImageMagick. Takes a screenshot 5 seconds after it's run and saves it as desktop_screenshot.jpg Particularly handy when made into a menu option or button.

HourGlass

Displays an animated hourglass for x amount of seconds

Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

Print CPU load in percent

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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

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

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Create a tar archive using 7z compression

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dump a single table of a database to file

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