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Commands by marssi

Terminal - Commands by marssi - 9 results

sort -u < /sys/class/net/*/address

2011-05-18 17:50:44

User: marssi

Functions: sort

Tags: sort mac

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List your MACs address

List all MAC addresses on a Linux box. sort -u is useful when having virtual interfaces.

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2010-12-26 11:04:42

User: marssi

Functions: head sort tr wget

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Look for English words in /dev/urandom

Little faster alternative.

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ifconfig|sed '/inet/!d;/127.0/d;/dr:\s/d;s/^.*:$.*$B.*$/\1/'

2010-12-01 21:08:29

User: marssi

Functions: ifconfig sed

Tags: ifconfig sed

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Get your local IP regardless of your network interface

Shows only IP-addresses of ifconfig except 127.0.0.0/8.

I fixed the script to work on more systems and configs

short info

/inet/!d; #grep inet

/127.0/d; # grep -v 127.0

/dr:\s/d; # grep -v dr:

s/^.*:$.*$B.*$/\1/ # remove everything exept between : and B

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lsmod | sed -e '1d' -e 's/$\([^ ]*$ \)\{1\}.*/\2/' | xargs modinfo | sed -e '/^dep/s/$/\n/g' -e '/^file/b' -e '/^desc/b' -e '/^dep/b' -e d

2009-11-17 22:51:08

User: marssi

Functions: lsmod modinfo sed xargs

Tags: sed xargs lsmod modinfo

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Short Information about loaded kernel modules

Liked command 4077 so I improved it, by doing all text manipulation with sed.

"Run this as root, it will be helpful to quickly get information about the loaded kernel modules." THX mohan43u

(cd /source/dir ; tar cv .)|(cd /dest/dir ; tar xv)

2009-07-19 10:31:13

User: marssi

Functions: cd tar

Tags: sed awk du duplicate tar directory pv duplicate directories duplicate directory

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Duplicate a directory tree using tar and pipes

the f is for file and - stdout, This way little shorter.

I Like copy-directory function It does the job but looks like SH**, and this doesn't understand folders with whitespaces and can only handle full path, but otherwise fine,

function copy-directory () { ; FrDir="$(echo $1 | sed 's:/: :g' | awk '/ / {print $NF}')" ; SiZe="$(du -sb $1 | awk '{print $1}')" ; (cd $1 ; cd .. ; tar c $FrDir/ )|pv -s $SiZe|(cd $2 ; tar x ) ; }

pv large.xml | xclip

2009-07-08 19:26:12

User: marssi

Tags: clipboard pv xclip

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cat large file to clipboard with speed-o-meter

shortest alternative without the speed-o-meter"xclip large.xml"

"xclip -o" to get the clipboard content, alternatively [shift key] + insert or middle button of your mouse.

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function duf { du -sk "$@" | sort -n | while read size fname; do for unit in k M G T P E Z Y; do if [ $size -lt 1024 ]; then echo -e "${size}${unit}\t${fname}"; break; fi; size=$((size/1024)); done; done; }

2009-07-02 19:56:36

User: marssi

Functions: du echo read size sort

Tags: sort du shell human

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Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest last)

Found this one little more for me. This one removes the perl dependency (from command 2535).

Source for command : http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

2009-06-07 08:17:06

User: marssi

Functions: chmod find

Tags: find chmod

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Change permissions of every directory in current directory

"find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755"

thanks masterofdisaster

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type -all command

2009-05-27 02:57:32

User: marssi

Functions: type

Tags: alias

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Find if the command has an alias