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Terminal - Commands tagged sed - 320 results
git for-each-ref --sort='-authordate' --format='%(refname)%09%(authordate)' refs/heads | sed -e 's-refs/heads/--'
2012-09-25 09:05:09
User: ptitfred
Functions: sed
Tags: bash git sed
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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches
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source <(egrep '^#define EX_.*' /usr/include/sysexits.h | sed -e 's/#define/declare -r/g' | sed 's/\//#/g' | sed -e 's/\s\{1,\}/ /g' | sed -e 's/ \([0-9]\)/\=\1/'g )
2012-09-21 13:30:37
User: fishdaemon
Functions: egrep sed
Tags: bash sed exit errno exit code
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Use exit codes that actually means something.

Use meaningful exit codes

change "source" to "cat" to view output instead of assigning

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sed 1d foo.txt
2012-09-13 23:29:11
User: putnamhill
Functions: sed
Tags: sed
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Deleting / Ignoring lines from the top of a file
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cp foo.txt foo.txt.tmp; sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp > foo.txt; rm -f foo.txt.tmp
2012-09-13 20:57:40
User: kaushalmehra
Functions: cp rm sed
Tags: sed unix
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Deleting / Ignoring tailer record from the file

sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp

...deletes last line from the file

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sed -n -e "/^\[/h; /priority *=/{ G; s/\n/ /; s/ity=/ity = /; p }" /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo | sort -k3n
2012-09-06 00:09:09
User: eddieb
Functions: sed sort
Tags: yum sed repository
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Easy way to display yum repo priorities

This probably only works without modifications in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora.

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for i in /var/spool/cron/tabs/*; do echo ${i##*/}; sed 's/^/\t/' $i; echo; done
2012-07-12 08:07:20
User: harpo
Functions: echo sed
Tags: sed echo for for loop
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Show crontabs for all users

This is flatcaps tweaked command to make it work on SLES 11.2

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for i in /var/spool/cron/*; do echo ${i##*/}; sed 's/^/\t/' $i; echo; done
2012-07-11 13:36:34
User: flatcap
Functions: echo sed
Tags: sed echo for for loop
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Show crontabs for all users

Show the crontabs of all the users.

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gcc -E code.c | sed '/^\#/d' | indent -st -i2 > code-x.c
2012-06-18 22:20:33
User: enikulenkov
Functions: gcc sed
Tags: sed indent gcc preprocessor
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Apply only preprocessor for .c file and beautify output
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python -c 'import googl; print googl.Googl("<your_google_api_key>").shorten("'$someurl'")[u"id"]'
2012-05-31 17:14:17
User: shr386
Functions: python
Tags: sed curl python google url python-gdata google shortener
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Google URL shortener

(1) required: python-googl ( install by: pip install python-googl )

(2) get from google API console https://code.google.com/apis/console/

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ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'
2012-05-30 14:50:13
User: Koobiac
Functions: grep ls sed
Tags: sed ls grep tree
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Simulate a tree command
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mysqlbinlog <logfiles> | grep exec | grep end_log_pos | grep -v exec_time=0 | sed 's/^\(.*exec_time=\([0-9]\+\).*\)/\2 - \1 /' | sort -n
2012-05-30 09:38:02
User: theist
Functions: exec grep sed sort
Tags: sed grep mysqlbinlog
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mysqlbinlog headers sorted by event time

Shows sorted by query time, the headers of mysqlbinlog entries. Then is easy to locate the heavier events on the raw log dump

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iotop -a -p $(sed 's, , -p ,g' <<<`pgrep "_raid|_resync|jbd2"`)
2012-05-17 19:45:02
User: AskApache
Functions: sed
Tags: sed askapache raid iotop
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Monitor RAID IO Usage

Shows the IO of the raid sync

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echo `disklabel mfid1s4 | sed -n '$p' | awk '{print $2}'` / 1024 / 1024 | bc -l
2012-05-04 12:48:58
User: RageJello
Functions: awk bc echo sed
Tags: csh sed awk bc -l FreeBSD disklabel bsdlabel
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Converts the output of disklabel from bytes to Gigabytes on FreeBSD

This was done in csh.

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gg(){ lynx -dump http://www.google.com/search?q=$@ | sed '/[0-9]*\..http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=related:/!d;s/...[0-9]*\..http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=related://;s/&hl=//';}
2012-04-21 03:31:26
User: chon8a
Functions: sed
Tags: sed lynx google
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Search google and show only urls

Get the first 10 google results form a querry, but showing only the urls from the results.

Use + to search diferent terms, ex: commandlinefu+google .

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git remote -v | grep fetch | sed 's/\(.*github.com\)[:|/]\(.*\).git (fetch)/\2/' | awk {'print "https://github.com/" $1'} | xargs open
2012-04-15 20:48:46
User: brockangelo
Functions: awk grep sed xargs
Tags: git sed alias xargs github
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Open the current project on Github by typing gh

Written for Mac OSX. When you are working in a project and want to open it on Github.com, just type "gh" and your default browser will open with the repo you are in. Works for submodules, and repo's that you don't own.

You'll need to copy / paste this command into a gh.sh file, then create an alias in your bash or zsh profile to the gh.sh script. Detailed instructions here if you still need help:

http://gist.github.com/1917716

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for k in $(git branch | sed /\*/d); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ct" $k) $k"; done | sort -r | awk '{print $2}'
2012-04-07 11:19:00
User: dahuie
Functions: awk echo sed sort
Tags: bash git sed awk
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Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Simpler and without all of the coloring gimmicks. This just returns a list of branches with the most recent first. This should be useful for cleaning your remotes.

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sed G input.txt | cat -s
2012-04-07 02:15:18
User: kev
Functions: cat sed
Tags: cat sed
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insert blank lines
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sed -i 's/$/\r/' file
2012-02-23 08:34:30
User: evolix
Functions: sed
Tags: sed dos carriage return unix2dos
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Convert an UNIX file to a DOS file.

This permit to convert an UNIX file to DOS file.

You can use it in a loop to convert multiple files, like :

for i in *.bat; do sed -i 's/$/\r/' $i; done

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cmdfu(){ local t=~/cmdfu;echo -e "\n# $1 {{{1">>$t;curl -s "commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$1/`echo -n $1|base64`/plaintext"|sed '1,2d;s/^#.*/& {{{2/g'>$t;vim -u /dev/null -c "set ft=sh fdm=marker fdl=1 noswf" -M $t;rm $t; }
2012-02-21 05:43:16
User: AskApache
Functions: echo rm sed vim
Tags: bash vim tee sed grep curl commandlinefu api askapache syntax
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Search commandlinefu and view syntax-highlighted results in vim

Here is the full function (got trunctated), which is much better and works for multiple queries.

function cmdfu () {

local t=~/cmdfu;

until [[ -z $1 ]]; do

echo -e "\n# $1 {{{1" >> $t;

curl -s "commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$1/`echo -n $1|base64`/plaintext" | sed '1,2d;s/^#.*/& {{{2/g' | tee -a $t > $t.c;

sed -i "s/^# $1 {/# $1 - `grep -c '^#' $t.c` {/" $t;

shift;

done;

vim -u /dev/null -c "set ft=sh fdm=marker fdl=1 noswf" -M $t;

rm $t $t.c

}

Searches commandlinefu for single/multiple queries and displays syntax-highlighted, folded, and numbered results in vim.

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sed -e 's/[;|][[:space:]]*/\n/g' .bash_history | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1 | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head --lines=20
2012-02-17 23:34:16
User: WissenForscher
Functions: cut head sed sort uniq
Tags: bash sort sed uniq
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Top 20 commands in your bash history
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sed -i 6,66d <filename>
2012-02-04 02:29:40
User: icsamples
Functions: sed
Tags: bash sed
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Remove a range of lines from a file

Delete range of lines. Ex: Line 6 through 66 in .

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print "$(lsvg -Lo |xargs lsvg -L|grep "TOTAL PPs"|awk -F"(" '{print$2}'|sed -e "s/)//g" -e "s/megabytes/+/g"|xargs|sed -e "s/^/(/g" -e "s/+$/)\/1000/g"|bc ) GB"
2012-02-03 13:58:41
User: janvanderwijk
Tags: sed awk xargs grep print aix lsvg
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See the total amount of data on an AIX machine

Not figured by me, but a colleague of mine.

See the total amount of data on an AIX machine.

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sed -r 's/(\[|])//g' | awk ' { $1=strftime("%D %T",$1); print }'
2012-02-03 13:07:37
User: Zulu
Functions: awk sed
Tags: sed awk timestamp
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Change time format in log, UNIX Timestamp to Human readable

It remove the square bracket and convert UNIX time to human readable time for all line of a stream (or file).

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sed -re '/^#/d ; s/#.*$// ; /^\s*$/d'
2012-02-02 18:12:52
User: Zulu
Functions: sed
Tags: sed
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Remove superfluous from conf file

Use it with cat and '|' for know what is used in a conf file.

For example cat /etc/squid/squid.conf | sed -re '/^#/d ; s/#.*$// ; /^\s$/d' :

Show you what you use in your file conf.

It removes all comments and empty lines.

Empty lines are lines with nothing, a tab, or a space.

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sed -i <file> -re '<start>,<end>d'
2012-02-02 17:59:18
User: Zulu
Functions: sed
Tags: bash sed
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Remove a range of lines from a file

Delete a range of line

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