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Commands by IsraelTorres

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echo '<?php echo str_rot13 ("Hello World") ?>' > hw.php && php hw.php && rm hw.php
2011-01-04 21:15:19
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: echo rm
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a simple bash one-liner to create php file and call php function

created and tested on:

ProductName: Mac OS X

ProductVersion: 10.6.5

BuildVersion: 10H574

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curl -s $dellurl$1 | tr "\"" "\n" | grep "</td></tr><tr><td class=" -m 2 | grep -v "Service Tag" | sed 's/>//g' | sed 's/<\/td<\/tr<tr<td class=//g'
2010-10-13 01:09:30
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: grep sed tr
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Use Dell Service Tag $1 to Find Machine Model [Model Name and Model Number]

255 Max Characters CommandLineFu for $dellurl='http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/my_systems_info/en/details?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=hied&ServiceTag='

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find ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/. -name \*.ipa -exec basename {} \; | cut -d \. -f 1 > ~/Desktop/MyAppList`date +%s.txt`
2010-06-16 15:14:32
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: basename cut find
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print your iTunes App for iPhone/iTouch/iPad to show your friends which ones you have

omit "> ~/Desktop/MyAppList`date +%s.txt`" if you don't want to print it to a file on your desktop and instead only want to display to console

created and tested on:

ProductName: Mac OS X

ProductVersion: 10.6.3

BuildVersion: 10D573

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xxd -l 0x04 $file; xxd -s -0x04 $file
2010-06-05 06:19:02
User: IsraelTorres
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get header and footer of file for use with scalpel file carving

file carving helps if you know where the file you are looking for starts and ends. It's also an easy way to get data and catalog them for future use with forensic tools like scalpel.

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echo "6d5967306474686924697344406b3379" | xxd -r -p
2010-05-24 22:48:41
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: echo
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Defcon 18 Quals Binary L33tness 300 Solution

Here's a super simple one liner that could have gotten our team 300 points! #facepalm!

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echo -n "convert " > itcombino.sh; printf "IMG_%00004u.png " {1..1121} >> itcombino.sh; echo -n "-layers merge _final.png" >> itcombino.sh; chmod +x itcombino.sh && ./itcombino.sh
2010-05-22 03:56:30
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: chmod echo printf
Tags: Combine, Imagemagick , bash, MacOS
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Combines an arbitrary number of transparent png files into one file

This one liner; combines all sequentially numbered files; in this example IMG_0001.png to IMG_1121.png by generating the shell script, making the shell script executable and then running the shell script to combine the 1121 png into a single png file named _final.png

tested on Mac OS X 10.6.3 with ImageMagick 6.5.8-0 2009-11-22 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org

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echo "X-Facebook: from zuckmail ([MTI3LjAuMC4x])" | cut -d \[ -f 2 | cut -d \] -f 1 | openssl base64 -d
2010-05-09 00:46:28
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: cut echo
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Facebook e-mail header X-Facebook IP deobfuscator

Currently Facebook has updated their headers to display 127.0.0.1 but if you have saved e-mails from messages and FB related mail you can still reveal the IP. :)

Tested on Mac OS X 10.6.3

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echo "$1" | xxd -p | tr '0-9' '5-90-6'; echo "$1" | tr '0-9' '5-90-6' | xxd -r -p
2010-04-27 03:08:47
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: echo tr
Tags: N5 Rot13 with numbers only
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This is N5 sorta like rot13 but with numbers only

This is N5 sorta like rot13 but with numbers only.

Encrypt

echo "$1" | xxd -p | tr '0-9' '5-90-6'

Decrypt

echo "$1" | tr '0-9' '5-90-6' | xxd -r -p

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currency_convert() { curl -s "http://www.google.com/finance/converter?a=$1&from=$2&to=$3" | sed '/res/!d;s/<[^>]*>//g'; }
2010-03-23 04:13:12
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: sed
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Currency Conversion

This works in Mac OS X (10.6.2) (natively comes with curl)

usage: currency_convert $1(amount) $2(from_denomination) $3(to_denomination)

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