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subtraction between lines
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seq 1 3 20 | sed -n '1{h;d};H;x;s/\n/\t/p' | awk '{printf("%d - %d = %d\n", $2, $1, $2-$1)}'

kev · 2011-11-10 10:38:11 6
subtraction between lines

It's allways strange for me to see sed and awk in the same command line if you can avoid it
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seq 1 3 20 | awk '{ T[NR]=$1} END {for (i=1;i<=(NR-1);i++) print T[i+1],"-",T[i],"=" , T[i+1]-T[i]}'

benoit_c_lbn · 2011-11-13 10:36:18 6
Rebuild a Delimited File with a Unique Delimiter

Useful for CSV files. In the command, the file in question is comma delimited but contains double quoted fields containing commas and contains no @ symbols (as confirmed with http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/9998/delimiter-hunting). This command converts the delimiting commas to @s while preserving the commas in the fields using the "uniqueString" to mark the ends of lines.
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sed 's/$/uniqueString/' file.old | sed 's/,/\n/g' | sed ':loop;/^\"[^\"]*$/N;s/\n/,/;/[^\"]$/t loop' | sed ':loop;N;s/\n/@/g;/uniqueString$/!b loop;s/uniqueString$//' > file.new

moogmusic · 2012-01-06 10:06:40 3
Top 20 commands in your bash history
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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

WissenForscher · 2012-02-17 23:34:16 5
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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git remote -v | grep fetch | sed 's/$.*github.com$[:|/]$.*$.git (fetch)/\2/' | awk {'print "https://github.com/" $1'} | xargs open

brockangelo · 2012-04-15 20:48:46 20
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 . Show Sample Output
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```
$gg commandlinefu
http://www.commandlinefu.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/commandlinefu
http://twitter.com/#!/commandlinefu10
http://xkcd.com/196/
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/commandlinefu-amazing-collection-command-line-gems-linux-mac/
http://ankurs.com/2011/11/command-line-fu/
http://kresimirbojcic.com/2011/11/22/unix-command-line-fu.html
http://commandlinefu.uservoice.com/
http://samirahmed.github.com/fu/
```
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gg(){ lynx -dump http://www.google.com/search?q=$@ | sed '/[0-9]*\..http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=related:/!d;s/...[0-9]*\..http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=related://;s/&hl=//';}

chon8a · 2012-04-21 03:31:26 6
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/tabs/*; do echo ${i##*/}; sed 's/^/\t/' $i; echo; done

harpo · 2012-07-12 08:07:20 4
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches
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git for-each-ref --sort='-authordate' --format='%(refname)%09%(authordate)' refs/heads | sed -e 's-refs/heads/--'

ptitfred · 2012-09-25 09:05:09 8
recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files

Search and replace recursively. :-) Shorter and simpler than the others. And allows more terms: replace old new [old new ...] -- `find -type f`
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replace old new -- `find -type f`

brian · 2012-12-13 20:22:17 6
Oneliner to get domain names list of all existing domain names (from wikipedia)

Quietly get a webpage from wikipedia: curl -s By default, don't output anything: sed -n Search for interesting lines: /<tr valign="top">/ With the matching lines: {} Search and replace any html tags: s/<[^>]*>//g Finally print the result: p Show Sample Output
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```
.aero
.asia
.biz
.cat
.com
.coop
.info
.int
.jobs
.mobi
.museum
... ETC
```
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curl -s http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains | sed -n '/<tr valign="top">/{s/<[^>]*>//g;p}'

flatcap · 2012-12-24 23:54:05 7
Put uppercase letters in curly brackets in a BibTeX database

It is often recommended to enclose capital letters in a BibTeX file in braces, so the letters will not be transformed to lower case, when imported from LaTeX. This is an attempt to apply this rule to a BibTeX database file. DO NOT USE sed '...' input.bib > input.bib as it will empty the file! How it works: /^\s*[^@%]/ Apply the search-and-replace rule to lines that start (^) with zero or more white spaces (\s*), followed by any character ([...]) that is *NOT* a "@" or a "%" (^@%). s=<some stuff>=<other stuff>=g Search (s) for some stuff and replace by other stuff. Do that globally (g) for all matches in each processed line. $[A-Z][A-Z]*$$[^}A-Z]\|},$$ Matches at least one uppercase letter ([A-Z][A-Z]*) followed by a character that is EITHER not "}" and not a capital letter ([^}A-Z]) OR (|) it actually IS a "}", which is followed by "," at the end of the line ($). Putting regular expressions in escaped parentheses ($ and $, respectively) allows to dereference the matched string later. {\1}\2 Replace the matched string by "{", followed by part 1 of the matched string (\1), followed by "}", followed by the second part of the matched string (\2). I tried this with GNU sed, only, version 4.2.1. Show Sample Output
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```
@ARTICLE{Duck06,
  author = {{D}onald {D}uck and {D}aisy {D}uck and {S}crooge {M}c{D}uck},
  title = {{T}he danger of magnetic storms for {D}uckburg},
  journal = {{D}uckburg {T}ribune},
  year = {2006},
  volume = {56},
  pages = {386--394},
  number = {2},
  month = {{A}ug},
  owner = {{D}ucky {D}uke}
}
```
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sed '/^\s*[^@%]/s=$[A-Z][A-Z]*$$[^}A-Z]\|},$$={\1}\2=g' literature.bib > output.bib

michelsberg · 2013-01-15 22:24:17 10
display the hover text of the most recent xkcd

I look at xkcd in my news reader, but it displays the image's title attribute only for a few seconds which makes reading the longer ones more challenging. So I use this to display it in my console.
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curl -s 'http://xkcd.com/rss.xml' | xpath '//item[1]/description/text()' 2>&1 | sed -n 's/.*title="$[^"]*$".*/\1/p' | fold -s

putnamhill · 2013-02-16 22:38:26 7
Recursively search and replace old with new string, inside every instance of filename.ext

This is a slightly modified version of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4283/recursive-search-and-replace-old-with-new-string-inside-files (which did not work due to incorrect syntax) with the added option to sed inside only files named filename.ext
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find . -type f -name filename.exe -exec sed -i "s/oldstring/oldstring/g" {} +;

eddieb · 2013-05-20 19:17:10 11
psgrepp

grep по ps aux
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ps aux | grep $(echo $1 | sed "s/^$.$/[\1]/g")

opexxx · 2013-07-16 10:10:51 6
Download all images from a 4chan thread

first grep all href images then sed the url part then wget
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curl -s $1 | grep -o -i '<a href="//images.4chan.org/[^>]*>' | sed -r 's%.*"//([^"]*)".*%\1%' | xargs wget

bugmenot · 2013-07-22 10:33:55 6
List your largest installed packages (on Debian/Ubuntu)

The other commands were good, but they included packages that were installed and then removed. This command only shows packages that are currently installed, sorts smallest to largest, and formats the sizes to be human readable. Show Sample Output
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```
0.021 MB         php5
0.025 MB         libjpeg8
0.025 MB         libjpeg-progs
0.025 MB         ttf-droid
0.026 MB         ubuntu-restricted-addons
0.028 MB         apache2
0.028 MB         libperl5.14
. . .
49.584 MB        thunderbird
142.796 MB       linux-image-3.2.0-49-generic
156.440 MB       google-chrome-stable
195.852 MB       nvidia-current
```
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dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n' `aptitude --display-format '%p' search '?installed!?automatic'` | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk '{printf "%.3f MB \t %s\n", $2/(1024), $1}'

EvilDennisR · 2013-07-26 23:18:20 13
Get the current svn branch/tag (Good for PS1/PROMPT_COMMAND cases)

uses just one sed
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svn info | sed -n "/URL:/s/.*\///p"

massi · 2013-07-31 11:02:22 9
Search and replace in multiple files recursively

Replace "foo" with "bar" in all files in current directory recursively
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grep -lr "foo" . | xargs sed -i "s/foo/bar/g"

sergeylukin · 2013-10-28 13:02:47 10
Download latest NVIDIA Geforce x64 Windows driver

Download latest NVIDIA Geforce x64 Windows7-8 driver from Nvidia's website. Pulls the latest download version (which includes beta). This is the "English" version. The following command includes a 'sed' line to replace "english" with "international" if needed. You can also replace the starting subdomain with "eu." "uk." and others. Enjoy this one liner! 1 character under the max :) wget "us.download.nvidia.com$(wget -qO- "$(wget -qO- "nvidia.com/Download/processFind.aspx?psid=95&pfid=695&osid=19&lid=1&lang=en-us" | awk '/driverResults.aspx/ {print $4}' | cut -d "'" -f2 | head -n 1)" | awk '/url=/ {print $2}' | sed -e "s/english/international/" | cut -d '=' -f3 | cut -d '&' -f1)" Show Sample Output
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```
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 211183464 (201M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ?331.82-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql.exe?
```
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wget "us.download.nvidia.com$(wget -qO- "$(wget -qO- "nvidia.com/Download/processFind.aspx?psid=95&pfid=695&osid=19&lid=1&lang=en-us"|awk '/driverResults.aspx/ {print $4}'|cut -d "'" -f2|head -n 1)"|awk '/url=/ {print $2}'|cut -d '=' -f3|cut -d '&' -f1)"

lowjax · 2013-11-21 03:04:59 11
calculate how much bogomips one cpu core has (assuming you have 4 cores).

on some distro's you have to replace "BogoMIPS" with "bogomips". Show Sample Output
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```
#([04:33:58][root@fritz:~]#)cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS | uniq | sed 's/^.*://g' | awk '{print($1 / 4) }'
52.8375
```
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cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMIPS | uniq | sed 's/^.*://g' | awk '{print($1 / 4) }'

derpat · 2014-03-01 03:44:03 6
camelcase to underscore

Convert a camelCase string into snake_case. To complement senorpedro's command. Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo thisIsATest | sed -r 's/([A-Z])/_\L\1/g'
this_is_a_test
```
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echo thisIsATest | sed -r 's/([A-Z])/_\L\1/g'

flatcap · 2014-04-11 13:36:08 11
Print the IP address and the Mac address in the same line

Print the IP address and the Mac address in the same line Show Sample Output
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```
mac:00:50:12:BD:5E:5B - adr:192.168.0.1
```
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ifconfig | head -n 2 | tr -d '\n' | sed -n 's/.*$00:[^ ]*$.*$adr:[^ ]*$.*/mac:\1 - \2/p'

Koobiac · 2014-09-03 14:35:27 18

Parse compressed apache error log file and show top errors

credit shall fall to this for non-gzipped version: https://gist.github.com/marcanuy/a08d5f2d9c19ba621399 Show Sample Output

zanhsieh · 2014-09-24 05:26:24 8

Print the IPv4 address of a given interface
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ip a s eth0 | sed -nr 's!.*inet ([^/]+)/.*!\1!p'

swemarx · 2014-10-29 12:50:05 9
Change host name

With sed you can replace strings on the fly.
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sed -i 's/oldname/newname/' /etc/hosts /etc/hostname

adria · 2014-11-02 22:03:48 24
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