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Get the IP address

gives u each configured IP in a seperate line. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
127.0.0.1/8
10.28.66.71/24
```
3

ip -f inet a | awk '/inet / { print $2 }'

BorneBjoern · 2012-07-18 15:13:10 5
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

Remove old kernels (*-generic and *-generic-pae) via apt-get on debian/ubuntu based systems. Tested on ubuntu 10.04 - 12.04.
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3

sudo apt-get remove $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic*//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic*\nlinux-image-%s-generic*\n",$0,$0,$0)}')

mtron · 2012-08-15 10:02:12 6
Extract shortcuts and hostnames from .ssh/config

Spits out table that shows your Host->HostName aliases in ~/.ssh/config
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

awk '$1=="Host"{$1="";H=substr($0,2)};$1=="HostName"{print H,"$",$2}' ~/.ssh/config | column -s '$' -t

wejn · 2014-05-24 20:51:47 7
Displays the number of processes per state
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3

while true; do clear;awk '{a[$3]+=1};END{for(x in a){print x,a[x]}}' /proc/[0-9]*/stat; sleep 1; done

wejn · 2014-05-24 21:04:41 8
Print the IPv4 address of a given interface
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3

ip a s eth0 | awk -F'[/ ]+' '/inet[^6]/{print $3}'

wejn · 2014-10-13 18:33:38 9
easily strace all your apache processes

Will open strace on all apache process, on systems using sbin/apache (debian) or sbin/httpd (redhat), and will follow threads newly created.
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3

ps auxw | grep -E 'sbin/(apache|httpd)' | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace -F

gormux · 2016-08-04 10:59:58 14
Grab the first 3 octets of your ip addresses

For machines that have many ip blocks spanning different Class C's, this will show which ones. Show Sample Output
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```
chris@golf:~$ ifconfig | awk -F: '/inet addr:/ { sub(/\.[^.]+$/, "", $2); if (!seen[$2]++ && $2 != "127.0.0") print $2 }'
192.68.34
192.42.21
192.91.43
```
3

ifconfig | awk -F: '/inet addr:/ { sub(/\.[^.]+$/, "", $2); if (!seen[$2]++ && $2 != "127.0.0") print $2 }'

chrismccoy · 2016-09-01 14:02:43 16
Calculate the distance between two geographic coordinates points (latitude longitude)

The Haversine formula determines the great-circle distance between two points on a sphere given their longitudes and latitudes. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
# input (format: latitude1 longitude1 latitude2 longitude2) :

h -22.9077611 -43.1259322 -22.9121089 -43.2301558

# output:
10.6889

# So, the distance between -22.9077611 (latitude),-43.1259322 (longitude) and -22.9121089,-43.2301558 (latitude,longitude) is 10,688.9 meters (10.6889 kilometers)
```
3

h(){ echo $@|awk '{d($1,$2,$3,$4);} function d(x,y,x2,y2,a,c,dx,dy){dx=r(x2-x);dy=r(y2-y);x=r(x);x2=r(x2);a=(sin(dx/2))^2+cos(x)*cos(x2)*(sin(dy/2))^2;c=2*atan2(sqrt(a),sqrt(1-a)); printf("%.4f",6372.8*c);} function r(g){return g*(3.1415926/180.);}';}

mikhail · 2019-04-04 01:34:36 38
This command provides more color variety for the rainbow-like appearance by generating random color codes from 16 to 231 for adb logcat.
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3

adb logcat|awk '{ i srand();for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) { color = int(rand() * 216) + 16; printf "\033[38;5;%dm%s\033[0m ", color, $i;} printf "\n"; }'

wuseman1 · 2023-05-30 16:48:17 326
Averaging columns of numbers

This example calculates the averages of column one and column two of "file.dat". It can be easily modified if other columns are to be averaged.
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2

awk '{sum1+=$1; sum2+=$2} END {print sum1/NR, sum2/NR}' file.dat

kaan · 2009-03-24 21:22:14 6
Quick plotting of a function

The arguments of "seq" indicate the starting value, step size, and the end value of the x-range. "awk" outputs (x, f(x)) pairs and pipes them to "graph", which is part of the "plotutils" package.
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seq 0 0.1 20 | awk '{print $1, cos(0.5*$1)*sin(5*$1)}' | graph -T X

kaan · 2009-03-24 21:46:59 10
sorting file contents into individual files with awk

This command will sort the contents of FILENAME by redirecting the output to individual .txt files in which 3rd column will be used for sorting. If FILENAME contents are as follows: foo foo A foo bar bar B bar lorem ipsum A lorem Then two files called A.txt and B.txt will be created and their contents will be: A.txt foo foo A foo lorem ipsum A lorem and B.txt will be bar bar B bar
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awk '{print > $3".txt"}' FILENAME

alperyilmaz · 2009-03-31 15:14:13 6
fetch all revisions of a specific file in an SVN repository

exported files will get a .r23 extension (where 23 is the revision number)
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svn log fileName|cut -d" " -f 1|grep -e "^r[0-9]\{1,\}$"|awk {'sub(/^r/,"",$1);print "svn cat fileName@"$1" > /tmp/fileName.r"$1'}|sh

fizz · 2009-05-27 02:11:58 8
Convert numbers to SI notation

converts any number on the 'stdin' to SI notation. My version limits to 3 digits of precious (working with 10% resistors). Show Sample Output
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```
1
10
100
1k23
10k0
100k
1M00
24k5
4k54
2P35
0m34
0n35
```
2

$ awk '{ split(sprintf("%1.3e", $1), b, "e"); p = substr("yzafpnum_kMGTPEZY", (b[2]/3)+9, 1); o = sprintf("%f", b[1] * (10 ^ (b[2]%3))); gsub(/\./, p, o); print substr( gensub(/_[[:digit:]]*/, "", "g", o), 1, 4); }' < test.dat

mungewell · 2009-07-22 16:54:14 56
Grab an interface's IP from ifconfig without screen clutter

Sometimes, you don't really care about all the other information that ifconfig spits at you (however useful it may otherwise be). You just want an IP. This strips out all the crap and gives you exactly what you want. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
eth1: 192.168.100.73
```
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ifconfig eth1 | grep inet\ addr | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d: -f2 | sed s/^/eth1:\ /g

BoxingOctopus · 2009-11-03 19:26:40 10
Get your commandlinefu points (upvotes - downvotes)

This version prints current votes and commands for a user. Pass the user as an argument. While this technically "fits" as a one liner, it really is easier to look at as a shell script with extra whitespace. :) Show Sample Output
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```
  0  sed 's/.*/ /'
  0  date -s "`curl -sI www.example.com | sed -n 's/^Date: //p'`"
  0  jot -s '' -b '-' 50
  7  command | sed -n '1,/regex/p'
  4  curl -s search.twitter.com | awk -F'</?[^>]+>' '/\/intra\/trend\//{print $2}'
  5  dig +short -x {ip}
```
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curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/$1/xml | awk -F'</?div[^>]*>' '/class=\"command\"/{gsub(/"/,"\"",$2); gsub(/</,"<",$2); gsub(/>/,">",$2); gsub(/&/,"\\&",$2); cmd=$2} /class=\"num-votes\"/{printf("%3i %s\n", $2, cmd)}'

putnamhill · 2010-02-16 17:24:45 5
Grab a list of MP3s out of Firefox's cache

Grab a list of MP3s (with full path) out of Firefox's cache Ever gone to a site that has an MP3 embedded into a pesky flash player, but no download link? Well, this one-liner will yank the *full path* of those tunes straight out of FF's cache in a clean list. Shorter and Intuitive version of the command submitted by (TuxOtaku) Show Sample Output
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```
/home/sata/.mozilla/firefox/xmr8lfrq.default/Cache/FD44AC63d01
/home/sata/.mozilla/firefox/xmr8lfrq.default/Cache/C4C20071d01
/home/sata/.mozilla/firefox/xmr8lfrq.default/Cache/CD40802Cd01
```
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find ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache -exec file {} \; | awk -F ': ' 'tolower($2)~/mpeg/{print $1}'

sata · 2010-04-19 06:59:55 3
Length of longest line of code

Here's an awk version.
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awk '(length>t) {t=length} END {print t}' *.cpp

putnamhill · 2010-05-11 20:51:55 6
Echo the latest commands from commandlinefu on the console

A Quick variation to the latest commands list with the new-lines skipped. This is faster to read.
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wget -O - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/rss 2>/dev/null | awk '/\s*<title/ {z=match($0, /CDATA\[([^\]]*)\]/, b);print b[1]} /\s*<description/ {c=match($0, /code>(.*)<\/code>/, d);print d[1]} ' | grep -v "^$"

nikunj · 2010-06-29 16:22:03 36
Find the annual salary of any White House staffer.

Query the Socrata Open Data API being used by the White House to find any employee's salary using curl, grep and awk. Change the value of the search parameter (example uses Axelrod) to the name of any White House staffer to see their annual salary. Show Sample Output
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```
"172200.00"
```
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curl -s "http://www.socrata.com/api/views/vedg-c5sb/rows.json?search=Axelrod" | grep "data\" :" | awk '{ print $17 }'

mheadd · 2010-07-01 23:54:54 6
give me back my sound card

for when a program is hogging the sound output. finds, and kills. add -9 to the end for wedged processes. add in 'grep ^program' after lsof to filter. Show Sample Output
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```
$
```
2

lsof /dev/snd/pcm*p /dev/dsp | awk ' { print $2 }' | xargs kill

alustenberg · 2010-07-23 20:24:16 6
Create commands to download all of your Picasaweb albums

Create commands to download all of your Picasaweb albums Install Googlecl (http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/) and authenticate first. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
google picasa get "Album 1" .
google picasa get "Album number 2" .
google picasa get "You get thepoint" .
google picasa get "Blabla" .
```
2

google picasa list-albums |awk 'BEGIN { FS = "," }; {print "\""$1"\""}'|sed s/^/google\ picasa\ get\ /|awk ' {print $0,"."}'

bertzijngedacht · 2010-10-26 08:35:41 8
Check to make sure the whois nameservers match the nameserver records from the nameservers themselves

Change the $domain variable to whichever domain you wish to query. Works with the majority of whois info; for some that won't, you may have to compromise: domain=google.com; for a in $(whois $domain | grep "Domain servers in listed order:" --after 3 | grep -v "Domain servers in listed order:"); do echo ">>> Nameservers for $domain from $a Note that this doesn't work as well as the first one; if they have more than 3 nameservers, it won't hit them all. As the summary states, this can be useful for making sure the whois nameservers for a domain match the nameserver records (NS records) from the nameservers themselves. Show Sample Output
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```
>>> Nameservers for google.com from NS1.GOOGLE.COM <<<
ns3.google.com.
ns1.google.com.
ns4.google.com.
ns2.google.com.

>>> Nameservers for google.com from NS2.GOOGLE.COM <<<
ns3.google.com.
ns4.google.com.
ns2.google.com.
ns1.google.com.

>>> Nameservers for google.com from NS3.GOOGLE.COM <<<
ns1.google.com.
ns4.google.com.
ns2.google.com.
ns3.google.com.

>>> Nameservers for google.com from NS4.GOOGLE.COM <<<
ns2.google.com.
ns3.google.com.
ns1.google.com.
ns4.google.com.
```
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domain=google.com; for ns in $(whois $domain | awk -F: '/Name Server/{print $2}'); do echo ">>> Nameservers for $domain from $a <<<"; dig @$ns $domain ns +short; echo; done;

laebshade · 2011-05-08 04:46:34 4
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

The improvement of this command over Strawp's original alternative is that you can specify the size of the words, in this particular case words between 3 and 5 character's long. It also excludes words that contain apostrophes, if you'd rather keep those words simply substitue [^'] for . Show Sample Output
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```
potty Aspen seedy curt
```
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echo $(grep "^[^']\{3,5\}$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf -n4)

j_melis · 2011-08-23 21:15:18 6
Extract all 404 errors from your apache accesslog (prefix lines by occurrences number)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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grep "HTTP/1.1\" 404" access_log | awk '{print $7 } ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Koobiac · 2011-08-25 12:01:14 3
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