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Get info `iostat -En` for all disks with Hardware Errors - works on Solaris and Solaris forks

This helps quickly get information for each disk that is seemingly having hardware issues.
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iostat -En $(iostat -en|grep c#t|awk '$2 > 0 {print $NF}')

unixmonkey28207 · 2011-12-09 15:54:28 4
Disk usage skipping mount points (even top-level ones)

Other solutions that involve doing du -sx /* are incomplete because they will still descend other top-level filesystems are that mounted directly at "/" because the * expands to explicitly include all files and directories in "/", and du will still traverse them even with -x because you asked it to by supplying the directory name as a parameter (indirectly via "*"). Show Sample Output
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```
4.0K    /mnt
4.0K    /srv
8.0K    /media
16K     /lost+found
7.4M    /etc
25M     /home
83M     /boot
219M    /root
766M    /tmp
2.7G    /usr
8.3G    /opt
11G     /var
```
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for a in /*; do mountpoint -q -- "$a" || du -shx "$a"; done | sort -h

dmmst19 · 2024-02-28 01:43:19 54
Generate a GIF image from video file

The 30 means start extracting frames from 30 seconds into the video. The 3 means extract the next 3 seconds from that point. The fps can be adjusted based on your preferences. The 320 is the width of the gif, the height will be calculated automatically. input.mp4 is the video file, which can be any video file ffmpeg supports. The output.gif is the gif created.
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ffmpeg -ss 30 -t 3 -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -loop 0 output.gif

keyboardsage · 2024-03-19 00:34:23 48
do a release upgrade in ubuntu

release upgrades are major upgrades as from 8.04 to 8.10 or from 8.10 to 9.04 update-manager-core must be installed: sudo apt-get install update-manager-core in some cases you must edit '/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades' and set 'Prompt=normal'
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do-release-upgrade

dizzgo · 2009-03-25 07:25:33 14
full text(CJK) search mails and link the result to $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/
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recoll -t -q "keyword" | grep message/rfc822 | sed -s 's,^.*$'$MAILDIR'[^]]*$\].*$,\"\1\",' | xargs ln -sft $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/

s5unty · 2011-12-09 17:22:51 3
Move itens from subdirectories to current directory

You WILL have problems if the files have the same name. Use cases: consolidate music library and unify photos (especially if your camera separates images by dates). After running the command and verifying if there was no name issues, you can use ls -d */ | sed -e 's/^/\"/g' -e 's/$/\"/g' | xargs rm -r to remove now empty subdirectories.
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ls -d */* | sed -e 's/^/\"/g' -e 's/$/\"/g' | xargs mv -t $(pwd)

leovailati · 2010-03-01 23:43:26 6
calculate in commandline with dc

Us dc instead of bc. RPN FTW!!! Show Sample Output
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```
2
```
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dc -e "1 1 + p"

stubby · 2010-08-08 23:14:30 3
Quickly find files and folders in the current directory

These should be a little faster since they don't have to spawn grep.
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ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f -iname "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d -iname "$1"; }

plasticboy · 2012-08-15 15:04:48 3
Merge only certain pdfs in a directory
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gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=merged.pdf -dBATCH `ls | grep foo`

Arasithil · 2014-09-19 16:00:32 8
calculate in commandline with perl
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perl -e 'print 1+1 ."\n";'

stubby · 2010-08-08 23:19:10 3
Use socat to create a largefile
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echo | socat -u - file:/tmp/swapfile,create,largefile,seek=10000000000000

madrasi · 2011-02-08 00:30:38 4
Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.

The thunderbird message datastores get corrupt some times causing random failures, compaction to fail and general suck in thunderbird. Removing them causes thunderbird to rebuild the indexes and makes things quick again.
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find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs rm {} \;

allrightname · 2010-06-04 12:35:24 6
delete duplicate files
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fdupes -rdN $folder

markussesser · 2011-06-03 06:24:02 5
Convert a PKCS#8 private key to PEM format
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openssl pkcs8 -inform DER -nocrypt -in [priv key] -out [pem priv key]

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 16:52:34 20
Get your external IP address with the best commandlinefu.com command

This command uses the top voted "Get your external IP" command from commandlinefu.com to get your external IP address. Use this and you will always be using the communities favourite command. This is a tongue-in-cheek entry and not recommended for actual usage.
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eval $(curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/external/ZXh0ZXJuYWw=/sort-by-votes/plaintext|sed -n '/^# Get your external IP address$/{n;p;q}')

jgc · 2009-11-04 16:58:31 6
Identify a PKCS#8 Private Key

a pkcs8 key will have integer 00 at offset 4 and an rsaEncryption object at offset 9
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openssl ans1parse -inform DER < [priv key]

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 16:54:19 18
Remap "New Folder" to Command+N, "New Finder Window" to Cmd+Shift+N in Mac OS X

In Mac OS 9, the "New Folder" keyboard shortcut was Command+N, but in Mac OS X this was changed to "New Finder Window" instead, with "New Folder" taking the more awkward shortcut of Command+Shift+N. This command reverses their mappings.
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defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict 'New Finder Window' '@$N' 'New Folder' '@N'; killall Finder

Vulpine · 2009-02-17 23:20:53 7
perl find and replace
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find -name ".php" -exec perl -pi -e 's/search/replace/g/' {} \;

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:18:44 3
Push each of your local git branches to the remote repository
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git push origin --all

JustinCampbell · 2011-06-03 17:55:53 5
Remove annotation- (or other own-lined) tags from an XML document

Removes all lines between the lines containing "" and "", including these lines itself Backdrop: Sometimes when working with XML files without an graphical editor, large comment-/annotation-blocks taper the readability to walk through the file. I like to create a copy of such documents without these annotations. As the documentation itself is in documentation tags inside the annotation tags an therefore graphical editors tend to put the annotation tags in their own lines, this command removes all documentations within annotation-tags. Show Sample Output
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```
transforms:

<xsd:attribute name="version" type="xsd:string" use="required" fixed="1.0">
    <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation>This attribute denotes the version number ot the utilized XML-schema.</xsd:documentation>
    </xsd:annotation>
</xsd:attribute>

into:

<xsd:attribute name="version" type="xsd:string" use="required" fixed="1.0">
</xsd:attribute>
```
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awk "/<xsd:annotation>/{h=1};!h;/<\/xsd:annotation>/{h=0}" annotatedSchema.xsd

2chg · 2011-07-15 07:17:17 7
Find default gateway

Find your default gateway and print it directly output. http://www.bayner.com/ kerim@bayner.com Show Sample Output
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192.168.1.1
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ip route show | awk '$3 ~ /^[1-9]+/ {print $3;}'

kerim · 2010-08-08 23:57:23 3
Do one ping to a URL, I use this in a MRTG gauge graph to monitor connectivity

Does one ping to a URL or host, and echo out just the response time. I use this on, with MRTG to monitor the connections to various hosts. Show Sample Output
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12.304
```
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ping -c 1 www.google.com | /usr/bin/awk '{print $7}' | /usr/bin/awk 'NR > 1' | /usr/bin/awk 'NR < 2' | /usr/bin/awk -F"=" '{print $2}'

ackers · 2010-12-15 08:50:52 4
Count messages in mcabber history for each JID
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for f in ~/.mcabber/histo/*; do a=`egrep "^(MR|MS)" $f | wc -l`; echo $f: $a | awk -F\/ '{print $6}'; done

aluminiumgeek · 2011-06-04 10:51:49 3
extend KVM image size
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dd bs=1 if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/imagename.raw seek=50G count=1 conv=notrunc

altern · 2011-07-15 09:54:26 3
rename all images in folder with original date time from exif data

for filename multilingual (ex.japanese, chinese, ...etc)
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c=1; for i in *; do identify -verbose $i | perl -ane 'if(/exif:DateTimeOriginal:/){print "@F[1,2] "}'; ls -i $i; done | sort | perl -ane 'print "@F[2]\n"' | while read j; do find -inum $j | xargs -iX cp X NEW_`printf %02d $c`.jpg; cnt=`expr $c + 1`; done

huzioka · 2015-09-22 19:06:43 11
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scan whole internet and specific port in humanistic time

apt-get install git gcc make libpcap-dev git clone https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan cd masscan make install -pDm755 bin/masscan /usr/bin/masscan

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

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Compare two directories

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Get all IPs via ifconfig

and, a lot uglier, with sed: $ ifconfig | sed -n '/inet addr:/s/[^:]\+:$\S\+$.*/\1/p' Edit: Wanted to be shorter than the perl version. Still think that the perl version is the best..

Get line count for any file ending with extension recursively rooted at the current directory.

Extract title from HTML files

previous version leaves lots of blank lines

Lists installed kernels

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

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Forwards connections to your port 2000 to the port 22 of a remote host via ssh tunnel

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