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Commands by isaacs

Terminal - Commands by isaacs - 7 results

perl -pi -e 's/<a href="#" onmouseover="console.log('xss! '+document.cookie)" style="position:absolute;height:0;width:0;background:transparent;font-weight:normal;">xss</a>/<\/a>/g'

2009-07-08 22:26:15

User: isaacs

Functions: perl

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Attempt an XSS exploit on commandlinefu.com

Mouse around the title of this item, and note that your cookies are being logged to the console. If I were evil, I could instead send everyone's cookies to my site, and then post up-votes on all my submissions using their cookies, and try to delete every other submission, until clfu was completely pwned by me, redirecting people to malware and porn sites, and so on.

Update - now fixed.

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(curl -d q=grep http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'

2009-07-08 22:10:49

User: isaacs

Functions: egrep perl

Tags: perl grep curl commandlinefu

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Search commandlinefu from the command line

There's probably a more efficient way to do this rather than the relatively long perl program, but perl is my hammer, so text processing looks like a nail.

This is of course a lot to type all at once. You can make it better by putting this somewhere:

clf () { (curl -d "q=$@" http://www.commandlinefu.com/search/autocomplete 2>/dev/null) | egrep 'autocomplete|votes|destination' | perl -pi -e 's/<a style="display:none" class="destination" href="//g;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/">$/\n\n/g;s/^ +|\([0-9]+ votes,//g;s/^\//http:\/\/commandlinefu.com\//g'; }

Then, to look up any command, you can do this:

clf diff

This is similar to http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/CLFUSearch except that it's just one line, so more in the spirit of CLF, in my opinion.

command | figlet

2009-05-03 21:20:46

User: isaacs

Functions: command

Tags: figlet awesome

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Make anything more awesome

Pipe any command through figlet to make the output more awesome. Example:

ls | figlet

2009-04-09 20:08:45

User: isaacs

Functions: egrep grep info

Tags: svn grep

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Get the current svn branch/tag (Good for PS1/PROMPT_COMMAND cases)

Get the svn info, grep for the "URL" of the repository, pull out the tag/branch/trunk, and then just show the helpful/meaningful bit.

eval "`dircolors -b`"

2009-03-27 05:37:04

User: isaacs

Functions: eval

Tags: ls

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Add some color to ls

If you put this in your .bashrc, you might also want to add this to make it use the colors by default:

alias ls="ls --color=auto"

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svn status | egrep '^(M|A)' | egrep -o '[^MA\ ].*$'

2009-03-27 05:18:24

User: isaacs

Functions: egrep

Tags: svn

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Show the files that you've modified in an SVN tree

This is useful for piping to other commands, as well:

svn status | egrep '^(M|A)' | egrep -o '[^MA\ ].*$' | xargs $EDITOR

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alias tree="tree -CAFa -I 'CVS|*.*.package|.svn|.git' --dirsfirst"

2009-03-27 05:13:39

User: isaacs

Functions: alias

Tags: tree

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Make the "tree" command pretty and useful by default

I got really tired of having tree always show me tons of .svn and .git stuff that I don't care about. With this alias, "tree" uses pretty colors, snazzy line graphics, and ignores any source control and package mumbojumbo. (Customize the *.*.package glob, of course.)