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Commands by wwest4

Terminal - Commands by wwest4 - 38 results

watch -n 5 -d cat /proc/mdstat

2009-03-03 21:38:50

User: wwest4

Functions: cat watch

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Monitor Linux/MD RAID Rebuild

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e2label /dev/vg0/lv0 MyFiles

2009-02-28 02:34:46

User: wwest4

Functions: e2label

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Label EXT2/EXT3 File System

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v=/dev/vg0/lv0; lvextend -L+200G $v && resize2fs $v

2009-02-28 02:30:49

User: wwest4

Functions: resize2fs

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Resize A Mounted EXT3 File System

Live extension of an ext3 file system on logical volume $v by 200GB without the need to unmount/remount.

Requires that you have 1) a version of resize2fs that contains code merged from ext2online, and 2) kernel support for online resizing. (e.g. RHEL 5)

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while [ 0 ]; do echo -e "HTTP/1.1 302 Found\nLocation: http://www.whatevs.com/index.html" | nc -vvvv -l -p 80; done

2009-02-19 18:04:01

User: wwest4

Functions: echo

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HTTP redirect

any HTTP requests to the machine on the specified port will be redirected to http://www.whatevs.com... quick, dirty, works fine for sites w/

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ipconfig /flushdns

2009-02-18 21:23:36

User: wwest4

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flush cached dns lookups

Windows

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alias rk='d=$(dcop|grep $PPID) && s=$(dcop $d konsole currentSession) && dcop $d $s renameSession'

2009-02-14 00:02:43

User: wwest4

Functions: alias

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relabel current konsole tab

usage: renam

in a script you must replace $PPID with $(awk '{print $4}' /prod/$PPID/stat)

while [ 0 ]; do expr 2365200000 \- `date +%s` \- `date --date "YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:ss" +%s`; sleep 1; clear; done

2009-02-13 20:02:37

User: wwest4

Functions: expr sleep

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Mortality Countdown

watch the seconds of your life tick away - replace YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:ss w/ your birthtime.

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alias chop="tr -d '\r\n'"

2009-02-13 01:44:11

User: wwest4

Functions: alias

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bash chop

similar to perl chop()

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alias mute="dcop kmix Mixer0 toggleMasterMute ; dcop kmix Mixer0 masterMute | sed -e 's/true/muted/' -e 's/false/unmuted/' "

2009-02-12 04:56:33

User: wwest4

Functions: alias

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KDE Mixer Master Mute/Unmute

arguably better than using the driver interface. lots of potentially cool stuff to be done w/ the dcop client.

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nmap -sP 192.168.1.100-254

2009-02-11 20:44:43

User: wwest4

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ping a range of IP addresses

nmap accepts a wide variety of addressing notation, multiple targets/ranges, etc.

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\[command]

2009-02-11 19:34:21

User: wwest4

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escape any command aliases

e.g. if rm is aliased for 'rm -i', you can escape the alias by prepending a backslash:

rm [file] # WILL prompt for confirmation per the alias

\rm [file] # will NOT prompt for confirmation per the default behavior of the command

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rm -- --myfile

2009-02-11 19:24:22

User: wwest4

Functions: rm

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Removes file with a dash in the beginning of the name

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dig foo.org mx +short

2009-02-05 21:29:14

User: wwest4

Functions: dig

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Get MX records for a domain

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jstat -gc [jvmpid]

2009-02-05 21:23:07

User: wwest4

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JVM Garbage Collector Stats

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dos2unix dostxt unixtxt

2009-02-05 21:11:43

User: wwest4

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Convert Windows/DOS Text Files to Unix

converts non-ISO dos text files for use on unix systems.

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touch -acm yyyymmddhhMM.ss [file]

2009-02-05 21:07:09

User: wwest4

Functions: touch

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Reset the time stamps on a file

...changes modify time and access time. also:

touch -r [file1] [file2] # make file2 timestamp match file1

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ldconfig -p

2009-02-05 21:02:59

User: wwest4

Functions: ldconfig

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Show Shared Library Mappings

shows which shared lib files are pointed to by the dynamic linker.

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export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=`find /tmp/ssh* -type s -user [user] -mtime -1 | head -1`

2009-02-05 20:55:41

User: wwest4

Functions: export head

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Ride another SSH agent

Must be done as root - will cause subsequent ssh connections to use the identities available via the [user]'s agent socket.

xxd < orig | sed 's/A/B/' | sed 's/HEXA/HEXB/' | xxd -r > new

2009-02-05 20:25:04

User: wwest4

Functions: sed

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Binary search/replace

Replaces A with B in binary file "orig" and saves the result to "new". You must have the hex representations of A & B. Try od: echo -e "A\c" | od -An -x

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echo -n "search> ";read QUERY && wget -O - `wget -O - -U "Mozilla/5.0" "http://images.google.com/images?q=${QUERY}" 2>/dev/null |sed -e 's/","http/\n","http/g' |awk -F \" '{print $3}' |grep -i http: |head -1` > "$QUERY"

2009-02-05 19:50:53

User: wwest4

Functions: echo wget

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"I Feel Lucky" for Google Images

prompts for a search term and then pulls down the first result from google images

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rpm --query --filesbypackage [packagename]

2009-02-05 19:35:29

User: wwest4

Functions: rpm

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List files in an RPM package

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find $PWD -exec rpm --query -f {} \; | sort -u | grep -v "not owned"

2009-02-05 19:33:43

User: wwest4

Functions: find grep rpm sort

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List RPM packages installed in current tree

shows all RPMs with files in the current directory & its subdirectories.

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find /path/to/dir -type f -mtime +[#] -exec rm -f {} \;

2009-02-05 19:24:13

User: wwest4

Functions: find rm

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Periodic Log Deletion

deletes logs not modified in over [#] days - modify to compress or move, as needed

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dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1440 > floppy.img && mkdosfs floppy.img

2009-02-05 18:56:55

User: wwest4

Functions: dd mkdosfs

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Create a DOS floppy image

mount with:

mount -t msdos -o loop ./floppy.img /tmp/mnt

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openssl s_client -connect [host]:[sslport] -cipher LOW

2009-02-05 18:37:50

User: wwest4

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Test for Weak SSL Ciphers

...if you get a certificate back, the server is accepting weak SSL ciphers

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