If you put this in your .bashrc, you might also want to add this to make it use the colors by default:

If you don't send an interface, it shows private IP address of all interfaces

Usefull if you want to check if something is applying a dictonary of brute force.

Alternative command for performing an sha1 hash for a given set of files matched by a wildcard

Change YOUR TEXT HERE to the text you want.

On figlet -f banner, you can change it to any figlet font you have installed.

One variant for Star Wars fans could be this:

NOTICE: You need to install figlet.

On Ubuntu, this command is:

On Debian, this command is:

then

xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0

how to disable touchpad, and

xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 1

how to enable again

"intelligenti pauca"

regex to match an ip

This script will list all the files in the tarballs present on any folder or subfolder of the provided path. The while loop is for echoing the file name of the tarball before listing the files, so the tarball can be identified

This is useful for sending data between 2 computers that you have shell access to. Uses tar compression during transfer. Files are compressed & uncompressed automatically. Note the trailing dash on the listening side that makes netcat listen to stdin for data.

on the listening side:

explanation: open netcat to -l listen on -p port 2022, take the data stream and pipe to tar -x extract, -v verbose, -f using file filename - means "stdin"

on the sending side:

explanation: compress all files in current dir using tar -c create, -v verbose, -f using file, - filename - here means "stdout" because we're tar -c instead of tar -x, -w3 wait 3 seconds on stream termination and then end the connection to the listening host name_of_listening_host, on port 2022

Turns regular quotes into curly quotes, also converts hyphens to dashes using a heuristic and outputs the result as UTF-8, suitable to copy/paste into wordprocessor.

requires: http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/ (which does most of the work)

(I renamed smartypants.pl to smartypants before adding it to my $PATH)

Also requrires PHP with the multibyte module installed (its installed by default with PHP, but the sysadmin on one server I use disabled it... presumadly to increase performance or something).

since Mozai said that JSON is a subset of YAML ;)

over works like 'more' or 'less', but it pretty print the source code

Benefit is that it doesn't make you keep the terminal open.

Look search for lines in a file that beginning with a given string.

Same as $ grep ^n /etc/passwd

Add an entry to Microsoft Forefront's "Excluded file and locations". Replace C:\temp\evil.exe with desired folder to exclude. Requires administrative privileges.

Examples:

%SystemRoot%\system32\evil.exe

C:\*.exe

C:\

C:\temp\*.*

\\remotesvr\share

\\remotesvr\share\evil.exe

\\remotesvr\share\folder\evil.exe