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Commands by ioggstream

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netstat -town
2012-10-08 13:10:04
User: ioggstream
Functions: netstat
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See KeepAlive counters on tcp connections

See connection's tcp timers

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ip -o -4 a s
2012-09-19 10:59:05
User: ioggstream
Tags: ip address ipv6
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Show all configured ipv4

Short list of all ip.

Shows even the newly supported multiple ip address on the same interface (see eth1).

For ipv6 use -6

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ldapsearch -xLLL -b "cn=schema" "(objectclass=*)" \ \* objectclasses attributetypes | perl -p0e 's/\n //g'
2012-04-04 13:31:31
User: ioggstream
Functions: perl
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Dump 389ds schema

Dump 389ds schema, putting "\n " on one line with perl.

You have to specify the objectclasses, attributetypes operational attributes too, otherwise they won't be dumped!

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ldapsearch -xLLL -b "cn=schema" "(objectclass=*)" \ \* objectclasses attributetypes | perl -p0e 's/\n //g'
2012-04-03 16:21:43
User: ioggstream
Functions: perl
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Dump 389ds schema

Dump 389ds schema, putting "\n " on one line with perl.

You have to specify the objectclasses, attributetypes operational attributes too, otherwise they won't be dumped!

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ldapsearch -xLLL -b "cn=schema" "(objectclass=*)" \ \* objectclasses attributetypes | perl -p0e 's/\n //g'
2012-04-03 11:25:55
User: ioggstream
Functions: perl
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Dump 389ds schema

Dump 389ds schema, putting "\n " on one line with perl.

You have to specify the objectclasses, attributetypes operational attributes too, otherwise they won't be dumped!

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ldapsearch -xLLL -b "cn=schema" "(objectclass=*)" \ \* objectclasses attributetypes | perl -p0e 's/\n //g'
2012-04-03 09:56:19
User: ioggstream
Functions: perl
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Dump 389ds schema

Dump 389ds schema, putting "\n " on one line with perl.

You have to specify the objectclasses, attributetypes operational attributes too, otherwise they won't be dumped!

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ldapsearch -xLLL -b "cn=schema" "(objectclass=*)" \ \* objectclasses attributetypes | perl -p0e 's/\n //g'
2012-04-03 09:44:23
User: ioggstream
Functions: perl
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Dump 389ds schema

Dump 389ds schema, putting "\n " on one line with perl.

You have to specify the objectclasses, attributetypes operational attributes too, otherwise they won't be dumped!

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ldapsearch -xLLL -b "cn=schema" "(objectclass=*)" \ \* objectclasses attributetypes | perl -p0e 's/\n //g'
2012-04-03 09:44:11
User: ioggstream
Functions: perl
-2
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Dump 389ds schema

Dump 389ds schema, putting "\n " on one line with perl.

You have to specify the objectclasses, attributetypes operational attributes too, otherwise they won't be dumped!

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ldapsearch -xLLL -b "cn=schema" "(objectclass=*)" \ \* objectclasses attributetypes | perl -p0e 's/\n //g'
2012-04-03 09:44:00
User: ioggstream
Functions: perl
-2
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Dump 389ds schema

Dump 389ds schema, putting "\n " on one line with perl.

You have to specify the objectclasses, attributetypes operational attributes too, otherwise they won't be dumped!

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find . ! -name \*.md5 -exec 'md5sum "{}" > "{}".md5' \;
2011-10-26 21:54:48
User: ioggstream
Functions: find
Tags: ls grep md5sum for loop
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create missing md5 for all files in directory

Just use find. No need to test file existence. On gnu find you can limit directory depth. Use "{}" to manage correctly files with spaces

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<ESC> #
2011-09-13 17:01:44
User: ioggstream
Tags: bash comment shortcut
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Comment current line

This should work with different locales. Another post reports

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awk '{print $0/60;}' /proc/uptime
2011-08-31 10:41:21
User: ioggstream
Functions: awk
Tags: sed uptime minutes
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Uptime in minute

Get info directly from /proc/uptime

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list the naming contexts of a directory server (no need to search in config files)
2011-05-26 15:27:44
User: ioggstream
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ldapsearch -x -s base namingContexts -LLL
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ps -ef | grep c\\ommand
2011-01-04 11:43:14
User: ioggstream
Functions: grep ps
Tags: grep ps
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Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

faster ;) but your idea is really cool

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grep -i "$*" /usr/lib/perl5/Unicode/CharName.pm | while read a b; do /usr/bin/printf "\u$a\tU+%s\t%s\n" "$b"; done
2011-01-04 11:30:16
User: ioggstream
Functions: grep read
Tags: bash perl grep unicode code points GNU coreutils
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Look up a unicode character by name

No need for further filedes or substitution for splitting. Simply use read a b

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nmap -v -sP 192.168.10.0/24 | grep -c down
2011-01-04 11:20:27
User: ioggstream
Functions: grep
Tags: Network namp
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count of down available ips

avoid wc overload ;)

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wall <<< "Broadcast This"
2010-12-29 11:07:46
User: ioggstream
Functions: wall
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send a circular

don't need echo :P

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pgrep -c cat
2010-09-24 22:42:12
User: ioggstream
Tags: grep ps
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count how many cat processes are running
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find -iname \*.[ch] -exec emacs -nw -q {} --eval "(progn (mark-whole-buffer) (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil) (save-buffer))" --kill \;
2010-09-10 12:24:58
User: ioggstream
Functions: emacs find
Tags: Programming emacs indent
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Indent all the files in a project using emacs

use -iname \*[.ch] instead of -iname \*.c -o -iname \*.h

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pgrep -cu ioggstream
2010-05-21 10:53:57
User: ioggstream
Tags: sort uniq ps processes
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processes per user counter

use Linux ;)

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diff -wubBEr -x .svn dirA dirB
2010-05-21 10:47:02
User: ioggstream
Functions: diff
Tags: svn diff
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diff two svn repos ignoring spaces,tabs and svnfiles
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shuf -i 1-49 | head -n6 | sort -n| xargs
2009-10-22 12:54:08
User: ioggstream
Functions: head sort
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lotto generator

note the xargs at the end

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tar dfz horde-webmail-1.2.3.tar.gz
2009-08-24 14:19:58
User: ioggstream
Functions: tar
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Compare an archive with filesystem

and you quickly know the files you changed

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perl -ne 'split /,/ ; $a+= $_[3]; END {print $a."\n";}' -f ./file.csv
2009-08-07 09:35:52
User: ioggstream
Functions: perl
Tags: column CSV sum
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Sum columns from CSV column $COL
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ulimit -s 64
2009-08-06 10:40:25
User: ioggstream
Functions: ulimit
Tags: Linux ulimit
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Create more threads with less stack space

default stack size is 10M. This makes your multithread app filling rapidly your memory.

on my PC I was able to create only 300thread with default stack size.

Lower the default stack size to the one effectively used by your threads, let you create more.

ex. putting 64k I was able to create more than 10.000threads.

Obviously ...your thread shouldn't need more than 64k ram!!!

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