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Commands by xmuda

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ssh -X -l user 192.168.1.25
2013-04-30 13:48:28
User: xmuda
Functions: ssh
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Running applications require X in ssh

One time you logged in, you can prove these method just writing "firefox".

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sleep 10; poweroff
2013-04-13 22:07:15
User: xmuda
Functions: sleep
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Wait a moment and then Power off

If you are on your bed, waching a movie or if you are downloading something, but you whant to sleep. You can use these easy command to power off after X time. The time is in sec. if you whant to wait 1 H, use:

sleep 3600; poweroff

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for a in $(seq 5 8); do cat twit.txt | cut -d " " -f$a | grep "^@" | sort -u; done > followlst.txt
2013-03-29 21:07:09
User: xmuda
Functions: cat cut grep seq sort
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Get fresh FollowBack list for Twitter

Go to "https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23TeamFollowBack&src=hash" and then copy al the text on the page. If you scroll down the page will be bigger. Then put al the text in a text file called twit.txt

If you follow the user there is a high probability the users give you follow back.

To follow all the users you can use an iMacros script.

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if lynx --dump http://twitter.com/xmuda | grep -q "Sorry, that page does"; then echo "Dont Exist"; else echo "Exist"; fi
2013-03-23 16:12:24
User: xmuda
Functions: echo grep
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Twitter Account Validator

I use these command to validate twitter accounts, we can use a "for a in $(cat list.txt)" to validate a complete list of twitter accounts.

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true | mailx -n -a MYTEXT.txt -r my@mail.com -s log -S smtp=mail.com -S smtp-auth-user=MYUSER -S smtp-auth-password=MYPASSWORD FRIEND@mail.com
2013-03-12 16:37:30
User: xmuda
Functions: mailx true
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mailx to send mails from console

It is the best way i found to send a mail from the console in my centos server.

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lynx --dump http://en.trending-topic.com/countries/Mexico/ | grep "62]#" | sed 's/\[62\]//g'
2013-03-12 16:25:14
User: xmuda
Functions: grep sed
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Get Top Trending Topic on Twiter by location

In these command i use lynx to get the top trend topic of Mexico, if you replace Mexico with other country, you will get the #1 Trending topic

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su -c 'sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
2013-01-23 22:18:45
User: xmuda
Functions: echo su
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Clear RAM cache
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