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Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts
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ifconfig eth0 | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2

dooblem · 2010-07-01 20:25:55 3

Fewer keystrokes to search man page of command

Quicker way to search man pages of command for key word Show Sample Output

function mg(){ man ${1} | egrep ${2} | more; }

quincymd · 2010-07-01 21:14:24 7

Recursive grep of all c++ source under the current directory

Gnu grep allows to restrict the search to files only matching a given pattern. It also allows to exclude files.
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grep -R --include=*.cpp --include=*.h --exclude=*.inl.h "string" .

sweinst · 2010-07-14 16:32:28 5
list all file extensions in a directory

If we want files with more than one extension, like .tar.gz, only appear the latest, .gz: ls -Xp /path/to/dir | grep -Eo "\.[^./]+$" | uniq Show Sample Output
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```
.tar.gz
.py
.pyc
```
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ls -Xp /path/to/dir | grep -Eo "\.[^/]+$" | uniq

karpoke · 2010-08-12 16:32:54 6
remove script from infected html files

recursive find and replace. important stuff are grep -Z and zargs -0 which add zero byte after file name so sed can work even with file names with spaces.
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grep -ZlRr -e BAD_SCRIPT_LINE * |xargs -0 sed -i 's/BAD_SCRIPT_LINE//g'

homoludens · 2010-08-30 22:12:57 5
count how many cat processes are running
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pgrep -c cat

ioggstream · 2010-09-24 22:42:12 3
GREP a PDF file.
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grep -i '[^script$]' 1.txt

vinod · 2010-10-20 12:17:04 3

Source multiline grep with pcregrep

grep multiline in Perl regexp syntax with pcregrep Show Sample Output

pcregrep --color -M -N CRLF "owa_pattern\.\w+\W*$[^$]*\)" source.sql

hute37 · 2010-11-11 12:53:40 10

Find which service was used by which port number

I used 110 as the port number in examples for clarity. backslash+lessthan or backslash+b marks 'edge of the word'. Show Sample Output
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```
pop3            110/tcp    # Post Office Protocol - Version 3
pop3            110/udp    # Post Office Protocol - Version 3
```
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grep '\<110/' /etc/services; grep '\b110/' /etc/services

unefunge · 2010-11-25 08:29:42 4

Recursive source regexp search with pcregrep

range context (-A -B) search, with exclusion of vcs directories Show Sample Output

pcregrep -r --exclude_dir='.svn' --include='.*jsp$' -A 2 -B 2 --color "pHtmlHome" .

hute37 · 2010-12-09 15:26:07 3

List only those files that has all uppercase letters in their names (e.g. README)

Some source package have many 'README' kind of files, among many other regular files/directories. This command could be useful when one wants to list only 'README' kind of files among jungle of other files. (e.g. I came across this situation after downloading source for module-init-tools) Warning: This command would miss a file like => README.1 (or one with spaces in-between) Corrections welcome. Show Sample Output
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```
7FILESTARTWITHNUMBER
AUTHORS
CODING
COPYING
FAQ
INSTALL
MYTEST1
NEWS
NUM2INBETWEEN
README
TODO
```
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ls | grep '^[A-Z0-9]*$'

b_t · 2010-12-19 21:45:53 4
Check the package is installed or not. There will show the package name which is installed.
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apt-show-versions | grep '\bpython\b'

moonsilex · 2011-01-04 23:10:20 2
find files ending in *.log that contain both 'foo' and 'error'
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grep -l foo $(grep -l error *.log)

dlebauer · 2011-01-10 20:04:28 3
find files that contain foo, but not bar

same as grep -lL "foo" $(grep -l bar *cl*.log)
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grep -l foo *cl*.log | xargs grep -lL bar

dlebauer · 2011-01-10 20:18:30 3
Remove all the files except abc in the directory

Bash method to remove all files but "abc". It would be 'rm *~abc' in Zsh.
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rm *[!abc]

Vilemirth · 2011-01-25 19:41:41 4
Find artist and title of a music cd, UPC code given (first result only)

Changed wget to curl and it doesn't create a file anymore. Show Sample Output
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```
Iron Maiden - Killers
```
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curl http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 2> /dev/null | grep \/release\/ | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>$.*$<\/a><\/div>/\1/'

mrman · 2011-01-30 23:45:50 3
YouTube Convert and Download All User's Videos to MP3s on the fly

yt2mp3(){ for j in `seq 1 301`;do i=`curl -s gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/$1/uploads\?start-index=$j\&max-results=1|grep -o "watch[^&]*"`;ffmpeg -i `wget youtube.com/$i -qO-|grep -o 'url_map"[^,]*'|sed -n '1{s_.*|__;s_\\\__g;p}'` -vn -ab 128k "`youtube-dl -e ${i#*=}`.mp3";done;} squeezed the monster (and nifty ☺) command from 7776 from 531 characters to 284 characters, but I don't see a way to get it down to 255. This is definitely a kludge!
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Command in description (Your command is too long - please keep it to less than 255 characters)

__ · 2011-02-03 08:25:42 5
External IP address

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```
213.230.126.174
```
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wget http://cmyip.com -O - -o /dev/null | grep -Po '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'

ruslan · 2011-02-28 16:46:14 7

Show a config file without comments

easier to remember Show Sample Output

grep -v ^# /etc/somefile.conf | grep .

kad · 2011-05-17 01:24:08 8

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
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
Grep across a directory and open matching files in vim (one tab per file)

vim 7 required
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vim -p `grep -r PATTERN TARGET_DIR | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | xargs echo -n`

kovagoz · 2011-08-05 16:34:31 4
List only directories, one per line

nothing special Show Sample Output
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```
[root@arch ~]# ls -l | grep ^d | awk '{print $8}'
Desktop
public_html
script
```
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ls -l | grep ^d | sed 's:.*\ ::g'

bormarek · 2011-08-08 12:36:28 3
Find all PowerPC applications on OS X

No final count, but clean and simple output.
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system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType | grep -A3 -B4 "Kind: PowerPC"

TheQL · 2011-08-17 14:53:08 6
OSX Expand URL and Copy to Clipboard

Expand a URL, aka do a head request, and get the URL. Copy this value to clipboard.
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function expand_url() { curl -sI $1 | grep Location: | cut -d " " -f 2 | tr -d "\n" | pbcopy }

gt · 2011-08-21 05:30:09 3
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List all authors of a particular git project

Gets the authors, sorts by number of commits (as a vague way of estimating how much of the project is their work, i.e. the higher in the list, the more they've done) and then outputs the results.

dd with progress bar

piping through 'pv' shows a simple progress/speed bar for dd. This is a replacement for my otherwise favorite 'while :;do killall -USR1 dd;sleep 1;done'

Text graphing ping output filter

Nasty perl one-liner that provides a sparkline of ping times. If you want a different history than the last 30, just put that value in. It (ab)uses unicode to draw the bars, inspired by https://github.com/joemiller/spark-ping . It's not the most bug-free piece of code, but what it lacks in robustness it makes up for in capability. :) If anyone has any ideas on how to make it more compact or better, I'd love to hear them. I included a ping to google in the command just as an example (and burned up 10 chars doing it!). You should use it with: $ ping example.com | $SPARKLINE_PING_COMMAND

Rename files in batch

Fibonacci numbers with awk

Another combination of seq and awk. Not very efficient, but sufficiently quick.

Advanced python tracing

Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Get your outgoing IP address

Recursively grep for string and format output for vi(m)

This is a big time saver for me. I often grep source code and need to edit the findings. A single highlight of the mouse and middle mouse click (in gnome terminal) and I'm editing the exact line I just found. The color highlighting helps interpret the data.

Mysql extended status

Useful when checking MySQL status.

list any Linux files without users or groups

suspicious/anomalous ownership may indicate system breach; should return no results

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