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Commands by foob4r

Terminal - Commands by foob4r - 11 results

echo 254.003.032.3 | grep -P '^((25[0-4]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?[\d]?[1-9])\.){3}(25[0-4]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?[\d]?[1-9])$'

2009-09-17 12:59:44

User: foob4r

Functions: echo grep

Tags: IP grep regex ip address

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regex to match an ip

This obey that you don't match any broadcast or network addresses and stay between 1.1.1.1 - 254.254.254.254

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zip -r foo.zip DIR -x "*/.svn/*"

2009-09-08 14:43:58

User: foob4r

Tags: svn find zip

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Create a zip file ignoring .svn files

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echo sortmeplease|sed 's/./&\n/g'|sort|tr -d '\n'

2009-09-03 10:37:57

User: foob4r

Functions: echo sed tr

Tags: strings sorting

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Sort a character string

another possibility

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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

dsh -M -c -f servers -- "command HERE"

2009-08-31 12:08:38

User: foob4r

Tags: ssh multiple

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How to run a command on a list of remote servers read from a file

dsh - Distributed shell, or dancer?s shell ;-)

you can put your servers into /etc/dsh/machines.list than you don't have to serperate them by commata or group them in different files and only run commands for this groups

dsh -M -c -a -- "apt-get update"

tr : '\n' <<<$PATH

2009-08-28 15:45:09

User: foob4r

Functions: tr

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Terminal - Show directories in the PATH, one per line with sed and bash3.X `here string'

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for i in `grep "unable to stat" /var/log/syslog | cut -d "/" -f 3 | sort | uniq`; do find /var/qmail/queue -name $i -type f -exec rm -v {} \; ; done

2009-08-21 22:03:39

User: foob4r

Functions: cut find rm sort

Tags: qmail

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purge old stale messages on a qmail queue

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mailq | grep DrWEB | awk {'print $1'} | sed s/*//g | postsuper -d -

2009-08-21 22:01:41

User: foob4r

Functions: awk grep mailq sed

Tags: Postfix

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delete all DrWeb status, failure and other messages on a postfix server

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id=<XXXX>; find /var/spool/postfix/ -name $id -exec less {} \;

2009-08-21 21:58:58

User: foob4r

Functions: find id less

Tags: Postfix

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less an message on a postfix mailsystem with a specific message-id

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find /var/www/ -type f -name ".htaccess" -exec perl -pi -e 's/AddHandler[\s]*php(4|5)-cgi/AddHandler x-httpd-php\1/' {} \;

2009-08-21 21:55:22

User: foob4r

Functions: find perl

Tags: .htaccess AddHandler

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replace old htaccess php AddHandler values with new one

Alter "AddHandler php5-cgi .php" and "AddHandler php4-cgi .php" entries to new "AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php" respective php4 entries in all .htaccess files under /var/www

echo "scale=4; 3 / 5" | bc

2009-08-21 21:51:46

User: foob4r

Functions: echo

Tags: bc floating point

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floating point operations in shell scripts

allows you to use floating point operations in shell scripts