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hl-nonprinting () { local C=$(printf '\033[0;36m') B=$(printf '\033[0;46m') R=$(printf '\033[0m') np=$(env printf "\u00A0\uFEFF"); sed -e "s/\t/${C}▹&$R/g" -e "s/$/${C}⁋$R/" -e "s/[$np]/${B}& $R/g";}
2012-11-07 10:09:40
User: unhammer
Functions: env printf sed
Tags: tabs whitespace non-printing
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bash function to highlight non-printing characters: tab, newline, BOM, nbsp

Can't see it here, but the non-breaking space is highlighted :)

Of course,

cat -t -e

achieves something similar, but less colourful.

Could add more code points from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_%28punctuation%29#Spaces_in_Unicode

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perl -i -ne 'print uc $_' $1
2009-10-15 16:59:38
User: rbs
Functions: perl
Tags: perl
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Transforms a file to all uppercase.
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find * ! -name abc | xargs rm
2010-07-18 08:53:18
User: eth2net
Functions: find xargs
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Remove all the files except abc in the directory
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cat $HISTFILE | grep command
2013-05-01 13:11:05
User: Stolas
Functions: cat grep
Tags: history cat grep
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Easily find an old command you run
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svcadm disable cde-login
2011-03-24 13:05:15
User: fourty2
Functions: disable
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Disable graphical login on Solaris
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lpr file
2011-05-05 21:44:43
User: hutch
Functions: lpr
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Prints files

Saves you an

open file

and CTRL+P

So simple and time-saving.

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svn merge -r 1337:1336 PATH PATH
2009-02-06 00:48:17
User: troelskn
Functions: merge
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revert one or more changesets in svn

Reverts the changes that were made in a particular revision, in the local working copy. You must commit the local copy to the repository to make it permanent.

This is very useful for undoing a change.

You can revert multiple changes by specifying numbers wider apart; Just remember to put the highest number first.

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S='<iframe src=\"http:\/\/254.254.254.254\/bad\/index.php\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>' && R=''; find . -name "*.html" -exec grep -l "$S" {} \; | xargs sed -i -e "s/$S/$R/g"
2010-04-12 21:45:16
User: rexington
Functions: find grep sed xargs
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Remove string with several escaped characters from all files under given path

Removes the given string from all files under the given path - in this case the path given is "." This demonstrates the characters that must be escaped for the grep and sed commands to do their work correctly. Very handy for fixing hacked html files.

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find ./ -type f -mtime -1 -name .*.sw[po] -print | sed -r 's/^(.+)\/\.(\S+)\.sw[op]$/\1\/\2/' | xargs vim -r
2010-06-16 13:15:10
User: nodnarb
Functions: find sed vim xargs
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recursivly open all recently crashed vim buffers in restore mode

this is great if you loose you ssh connection (with out a screen session) or are working on a laptop with a bad battery, or just a power outage.

Modifications: you may not need the -print; the mtime is last modified time in days

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rm $( ls | egrep -v 'abc|\s' )
2010-07-18 10:59:15
User: dbbolton
Functions: egrep ls rm
Tags: grep rm
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Remove all the files except abc in the directory

Really, you deserve whatever happens if you have a whitespace character in a file name, but this has a small safety net. The truly paranoid will use '-i'.

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rename foo bar filename
2011-05-05 23:31:55
User: hexram
Functions: rename
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Rename all files which contain the sub-string 'foo', replacing it with 'bar'
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lynx --dump http://en.trending-topic.com/countries/Mexico/ | grep "62]#" | sed 's/\[62\]//g'
2013-03-12 16:25:14
User: xmuda
Functions: grep sed
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Get Top Trending Topic on Twiter by location

In these command i use lynx to get the top trend topic of Mexico, if you replace Mexico with other country, you will get the #1 Trending topic

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echo sortmeplease | awk '{l=split($1,a,"");asort(a);while(x<=l){printf "%s",a[x];x++ }print "";}'
2009-09-03 10:22:39
User: foob4r
Functions: awk echo
Tags: strings sorting
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Sort a character string

using awk

missed the last char thanks @Josay

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grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs -I '{}' vim +/string_to_find {} -c ":s/string_to_find/string_replaced"
2012-11-07 14:44:51
User: algol
Functions: grep vim xargs
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Multiple open files and go directly to the line where some string is

Open all files which have some string go directly to the first line where that string is and run command on it.

Other examples:

Run vim only once with multiple files (and just go to string in the first one):

grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs vim +/string_to_find

Run vim for each file, go to string in every one and run command (to delete line):

grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs -I '{}' vim +/string_to_find {} -c ":delete"
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arp-scan -l -g -interface (nic)
2011-01-13 20:29:37
User: pebkac
Functions: arp
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arp-scan -l without duplicates

This command will scan the subnet and exlude duplicates

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cat "log" | grep "text to grep" | awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 100
2014-07-08 15:07:24
User: jmorganwalker
Functions: awk cat grep head sort uniq
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Parse logs for IP addresses and how many hits from each IP
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sed 's/pattern/^[[1m&^[[0m/g'
2010-02-12 14:05:34
User: rmcb
Functions: sed
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Bold matching string without skipping others
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perl -ne 'push(@w, length); END {printf "%0d\n" , (sort({$b <=> $a} @w))[0]}' *.cpp
2010-05-11 19:46:37
User: asolkar
Functions: perl
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Length of longest line of code

Find the length of the longest line of code in your files.

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wget -q ip.nu && cat index.html
2012-03-23 03:14:37
User: VictorBjelkholm
Functions: cat wget
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View external IP
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cdparanoia -B
2009-07-29 07:56:12
User: hemanth
Functions: cdparanoia
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Rip audio tracks from CD to wav files in current dir

Rip audio tracks from CD to wav files in current dir

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<ctrl+z> %1 &
2010-10-25 17:43:38
User: joem86
Tags: bash terminal shell zsh
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Continue a current job in the background

Often times you run a command in the terminal and you don't realize it's going to take forever. You can open a new terminal, but you lose the local history of the suspended one. You can stop the running command using , but that may produce undesirable side-effects. suspends the job, and (assuming you have no other jobs running in the background) %1 resumes it. Appending & tells it to run in the background.

You now have a job running concurrently with your terminal. Note this will still print any output to the same terminal you're working on.

Tested on zsh and bash.

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lshw -C display
2009-04-28 11:49:08
User: gwir
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Give information about your graphic chipset

Use the lshw command to display information about your video card. Give more ouput when run as root.

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HDD=$(df | awk ' NR>3 (S=$5) (M=$6) { if (S>90) print "Your Systems "M" is """S" Full" } ') ; [[ $HDD ]] && echo "$HDD" | mail -s "Hard-Drives Full" TO@EMAIL.com -- -f FROM@EMAIL.com >/dev/null
2009-10-16 06:52:36
User: felix001
Functions: awk df echo mail
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Email if you disk is over 90%

Email if you disk is over 90% - www.fir3net.com

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sed = <file> | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/'
2009-12-11 14:39:14
User: jgc
Functions: sed
Tags: sed
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Print line numbers

Print out contents of file with line numbers.

This version will print a number for every line, and separates the numbering from the line with a tab.

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curl -u username:password -d status="blah blah blah" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2010-06-17 03:10:42
User: sha
Tags: net twitter update tweet
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Update twitter with curl
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