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Make a statistic about the lines of code

This is really fast :) time find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' 204753 real 0m0.191s user 0m0.068s sys 0m0.116s Show Sample Output
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204753
```
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find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'

karpoke · 2009-09-08 08:25:45 4
Visualizing system performance data

draw `vmstat ` data using gnuplot
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vmstat 2 10 | awk 'NR > 2 {print NR, $13}' | gnuplot -e "set terminal png;set output 'v.png';plot '-' u 1:2 t 'cpu' w linespoints;"

Sunng · 2009-09-23 07:19:47 3
Calculating series with awk: add numbers from 1 to 100

Calculating series with awk only, no need for seq: add numbers from 1 to 100 Variations: 1+3+...+(2n-1) = n^2 awk 'BEGIN {for(i=1;i<=19;i+=2)sum+=i}; END {print sum}' /dev/null # displays 100 1/2 + 1/4 + ... = 1 awk 'BEGIN {for(i=1;i<=10;i++)sum+=1/(2**i)}; END {print sum}' /dev/null # displays 0.999023 Show Sample Output
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```
5050
```
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awk 'BEGIN {for(i=1;i<=100;i++)sum+=i}; END {print sum}' /dev/null

dennisw · 2009-10-26 18:24:57 3
Get ethX mac addresses

Simple MAC adrress, thanks to ifconfig.
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ifconfig | awk '/HW/ {print $5}'

Cont3mpo · 2009-11-05 18:00:50 4
View the newest xkcd comic.

I wasn't sure how to display the image, so I thought I'd try xml for a different twist. Show Sample Output
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```
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xkcd>
<item>
<title>Spinal Tap Amps</title>
<comment>Wow, that's less than $200 per ... uh ... that's a good deal!</comment>
<image>http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spinal_tap_amps.png</image>
</item>
</xkcd>
```
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curl -s 'xkcd.com' | awk -F\" '/^<img/{printf("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<xkcd>\n<item>\n <title>%s</title>\n <comment>%s</comment>\n <image>%s</image>\n</item>\n</xkcd>\n", $6, $4, $2)}'

putnamhill · 2009-12-03 19:49:37 3
View a random xkcd comic

Only need to install Image Magick package. Display a xkcd comic with its title and save it in /tmp directory If you prefer to view the newest xkcd, use this command: wget -q http://xkcd.com/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*$http:.*$" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'
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wget -q http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random/ -O-| sed -n '/<img src="http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics/{s/.*$http:.*$" t.*/\1/;p}' | awk '{system ("wget -q " $1 " -O- | display -title $(basename " $1") -write /tmp/$(basename " $1")");}'

laugg · 2009-12-09 13:41:25 7
Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr
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xrandr -q | awk -F'current' -F',' 'NR==1 {gsub("( |current)","");print $2}'

sputnick · 2010-02-02 16:26:17 6
Averaging columns of numbers

Computes a columns average in a file. Input parameters = column number and optional pattern. Show Sample Output
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```
$> cat 0.5-10000.dat | avg 2 
Average over 10000 lines: 1.005299
```
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function avg { awk "/$2/{sum += \$$1; lc += 1;} END {printf \"Average over %d lines: %f\n\", lc, sum/lc}"; }

vimzard · 2010-02-18 10:20:22 4
List of commands you use most often

If you use HISTTIMEFORMAT environment e.g. timestamping typed commands, $(echo "1 2 $HISTTIMEFORMAT" | wc -w) gives the number of columns that containing non-command parts per lines. It should universify this command. Show Sample Output
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```
361 sudo
167 latin
130 ll
73 apt-get
72 mcedit
55 w
51 echo
50 ssh
48 mount
48 iwlist
```
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history | awk '{a[$'$(echo "1 2 $HISTTIMEFORMAT" | wc -w)']++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

bandie91 · 2010-05-02 21:48:53 3
Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts
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ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | cut -d ':' -f2

mrwill · 2010-06-30 08:52:01 3
How To Get the Apache Document Root
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awk '$1~/^DocumentRoot/{print $2}' /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

cicatriz · 2010-07-22 14:33:58 4
command line fu roulette

Splitting on tags in awk is a handy way to parse html.
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curl -sL 'www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random' | awk -F'</?[^>]+>' '/"command"/{print $2}'

putnamhill · 2010-08-13 11:42:42 5
Generate trigonometric/log data easily

If you want a sequence that can be plotted, do: seq 8 | awk '{print "e(" $0 ")" }' | bc -l | awk '{print NR " " $0}' Other bc functions include s (sine), c (cosine), l (log) and j (bessel). See the man page for details. Show Sample Output
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```
2.71828182845904523536
7.38905609893065022723
20.08553692318766774092
54.59815003314423907811
148.41315910257660342111
403.42879349273512260838
1096.63315842845859926372
2980.95798704172827474359
```
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seq 8 | awk '{print "e(" $0 ")" }' | bc -l

polar · 2010-08-14 02:52:39 4
Get all links of a website
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lynx -dump http://www.domain.com | awk '/http/{print $2}' | egrep "^https{0,1}"

xutale · 2010-11-10 11:05:52 2
Create a tar of modified/added files since revision 1792.

The result of this command is a tar with all files that have been modified/added since revision 1792 until HEAD. This command is super useful for incremental releases.
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svn diff -r 1792:HEAD --summarize | awk '{if ($1 != "D") print $2}'| xargs -I {} tar rf incremental_release.tar {}

windfold · 2011-04-05 15:00:49 3
use awk to replace field with it's md5sum

Source: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/35700746/calculating-md5sum-strings-from-within-awk.aspx Show Sample Output
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```
In:
joe 123456789 fdfdsajk
bob 125344325 dfjsakl

Out:
joe b2cfa4183267af678ea06c7407d4d6d8 fdfdsajk
bob f052b6bf06cde7c020543ed6f7bc1146 dfjsakl
```
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awk '{command="echo "$2"|md5sum" ;command | getline $2; close(command);sub(/[[:blank:]].*/,"",$2); print $0}'

erichelgeson · 2011-05-10 15:11:36 3
Show seconds since modified of newest modified file in directory
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FILE=`ls -ltr /var/lib/pgsql/backups/daily/ | tail -n1 | awk '{print $NF}'`; TIME=`stat -c %Y /var/lib/pgsql/backups/daily/$FILE`; NOW=`date +%s`; echo $((NOW-TIME))

allrightname · 2011-05-12 13:21:37 6
Show seconds since modified of newest modified file in directory
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ls -atr /home/reports/*.csv -o --time-sty=+%s | tail -1 | awk '{print systime()-$5}'

MiKatp · 2011-05-12 13:58:56 5
join every five lines

seq 20 | awk '{line=line sep $0; sep=" "} !(NR%5){print line; line=sep=""}' Show Sample Output
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```
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20
```
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seq 20 | awk 'ORS=NR%5?FS:RS'

kev · 2011-05-26 11:39:34 9
group every five lines
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awk '{x+=$2; y+=$3} NR%5==0{print x/5,y/5; x=y=0}' file.txt

kev · 2011-05-26 11:48:32 3
List your interfaces and MAC addresses

Why use grep and awk?
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ifconfig | awk '/HWaddr/ { print $1, $5 }'

Wazutiman · 2011-06-02 12:11:08 3
all out

to be executed from root. this works well on most commercial unix systems, have not tried on linux systems.
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ps -fu userid | awk '/userid/{print $2}' | xargs kill

unxscorob · 2011-06-16 12:20:19 3
netstat with group by (ip adress)

count connections, group by IP and port
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netstat -nt | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c

sreimann · 2011-07-05 07:53:29 3
Find lines of code (LOC) of a filetype in a project.

Replace .py with .rb or .java to get the LOC of that particular filetype. An alternative is http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2812/make-a-statistic-about-the-lines-of-code Show Sample Output
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```
16809
```
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find . -type f -name "*.py" -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{ SUM += $1} END {print SUM }'

dheerosaur · 2011-07-08 13:38:11 10
Download 40 top funnyjunk Images to the current directory

If your version of curl does not support the --compressed option, use curl -s http://funnyjunk.com | gunzip instead of curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com
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curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com | awk -F'"' '/ '"'"'mainpagetop24h'"'"'/ { print "http://funnyjunk.com"$4 }' | xargs curl -s | grep -o 'ht.*m/pictures/.*\.jpg\|ht.*m/gifs/.*\.gif' | grep "_......_" | uniq | xargs wget

laniner · 2011-07-21 15:57:21 6
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Read all the S.M.A.R.T. data from a hard disk drive

This is to pull all the saved S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) information from a hard drive. This can give you an idea of the nature and extent of an issue on a failing hard drive.

Are there any words in the English language that use at least half of the alphabet without repeating any letters?

This is the most straightforward approach: first regexp limits dictionary file to words with thirteen or more characters, second regexp discards any words that have a letter repeated. (Bonus challenge: Try doing it in a single regexp!)

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Update program providing java on Debian

Lets you set all the java alternatives at once to a matching version. Also has options for just changing the jre or the plugin.

Follow tail by name (fix for rolling logs with tail -f)

If you use 'tail -f foo.txt' and it becomes temporarily moved/deleted (ie: log rolls over) then tail will not pick up on the new foo.txt and simply waits with no output. 'tail -F' allows you to follow the file by it's name, rather than a descriptor. If foo.txt disappears, tail will wait until the filename appears again and then continues tailing.

Display formatted routes

See KeepAlive counters on tcp connections

See connection's tcp timers

Lock the hardware eject button of the cdrom

This command will lock the hardware eject button of your cdrom drive. Some uses are: 1: If you have a toddler and has discovered the cdrom button 2: If you are carrying a laptop in a bag or case and don't want it to eject if the button is inadvertently pressed. To unlock the button use: $ eject -i 0

Replace spaces in a file with hyphens

Compress logs older than 7 days

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