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Search recursively to find a word in certain file types

-sl : show just file names
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find . -iname '*.conf' | xargs grep "searh string" -sl

mesuutt · 2011-08-26 14:58:51 3
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word passphrase (fast) w/o apostrophes

Fast and excludes words with apostrophes. For ubuntu, you can use wamerican or wbritish dictionaries, installable through aptitude. Show Sample Output
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```
speculation crazies sox heftier
restfuller geneticists overdo Georgina
chaises masseur procurer grab
```
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echo $(cat /usr/share/dict/words |grep -v "'"|shuf -n4)

d1v3rdown · 2011-08-31 12:48:14 3
Mark manually deleted files as deleted in svn

Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.
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svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}'

erdeszt · 2011-10-06 08:11:25 5
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

since awk was already there one can use it instead of the 2 greps. might not be faster, but fast enough
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apt-get remove $(dpkg -l | awk "/^ii linux-(image|headers)/ && ! /`uname -r`/ {print \$2}")

_john · 2011-10-09 13:58:47 4
move linenumbers of grep output to end of line

Uses sed with a regex to move the linenumbers to the line end. The plain regex (w/o escapes) looks like that: ^([^:]*):(.*) Show Sample Output
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```
import org.apache.log4j.LogManager; 11
import org.apache.log4j.Logger; 12
```
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grep -n log4j MainPm.java | sed -e 's/^$[^:]*$:$.*$/\2 \1/'

bash_vi · 2011-10-21 12:50:30 3
Get the name or user running the process of specified PID

Gets the current system user running a process with the specified pid Show Sample Output
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```
nssy@yoda:~$ ps aux | grep 3698 | grep -v 'grep' | awk '{ print $1 }'
nssy
```
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ps aux | grep PID | grep -v 'grep' | awk '{ print $1 }'

nssy · 2011-11-05 04:53:29 3
Get the name or user running the process of specified PID
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ps -p pid -o logname |tail -1

grep · 2011-11-21 01:33:02 3
Rekursive Grep on Solaris or AIX Systems without GNU egrep -r funcionality
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find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n",FILENAME,NR,$0; }' {} \;

Neo23x0 · 2011-11-29 12:32:06 8
Show WebSphere AppServer uid|pid|cell|node|jvms

Tested in bash on AIX & Linux, used for WAS versions 6.0 & up. Sorts by node name. Useful when you have vertically-stacked instances of WAS/Portal. Cuts out all the classpath/optional parameter clutter that makes a simple "ps -ef | grep java" so difficult to sort through. Show Sample Output
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```
wasguy      14221350   ExampleCell1    Node1       WebSphere_Portal
wasguy      11141130   ExampleCell1    Node1       WebSphere_Portal_3
wasguy      11665646   ExampleCell1    Node1       nodeagent
wasguy      1769816    ExampleCell2    Node2       WebSphere_Portal
wasguy      10289222   ExampleCell2    Node2       WebSphere_Portal_3
wasguy      11665646   ExampleCell2    Node2       nodeagent
```
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ps -ef | grep [j]ava | awk -F ' ' ' { print $1," ",$2,"\t",$(NF-2),"\t",$(NF-1),"\t",$NF } ' | sort -k4

drockney · 2012-01-05 16:05:48 3

find usage

you can find a special things(with defined -iname "*sql*") from in most of one direcroty(for example from both /etc/ and /pentest/) and then you can want to grep only include "map" word Show Sample Output

find /etc/ /pentest/ -type f -iname "*sql*" | grep map

celalerdik · 2012-01-15 13:30:32 3

Show CPU idle and used time

This command displays the CPU idle + used time using stats from /proc/stat. Show Sample Output
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```
idle 	 used
72.4139% 21.1866%
```
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grep "cpu " /proc/stat | awk -F ' ' '{total = $2 + $3 + $4 + $5} END {print "idle \t used\n" $5*100/total "% " $2*100/total "%"}'

Goez · 2012-01-21 04:12:50 3
Find all FAT-invalid filenames in "."

Find is used to "find" all filenames - grep shows those that are invalid.
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find . | grep -E "(\||\\|\?|\*|<|\"|:|>|\+|\[|\])"

dj_bushido · 2012-01-21 17:54:58 3
Find all NTFS-invalid filenames in "."

Find all files under "." that are invalid NTFS filenames. Find locates all files, and grep shows the invalid ones.
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find . | grep -E "(\||\\|\?|\*|<|\"|:|>)"

dj_bushido · 2012-01-21 17:59:20 4
Shows the line of the string you want to search for (like in normal grep) plus 'n' number of lines above and below it.
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grep -C <no_of_lines> <string>

Chirag64 · 2012-01-21 19:59:55 3
Get the first non-empty line in a text file

Use this command if your file may contain empty lines and you need to optain the first non-empty line.
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grep . "$f" | head -n1

captaincomic · 2012-01-27 02:58:07 6
Kill processes associated with PATTERN

Kill all process that concide whit PATTERN Show Sample Output
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```
kill 28310: No such process
```
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ps -fea | grep PATTERN | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9

luiscachog · 2012-01-27 20:31:36 3
See who are using a specific port

See who is using a specific port. Especially when you're using AIX. In Ubuntu, for example, this can easily be seen with the netstat command. Show Sample Output
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```
Usually a nice list of IP addresses :-)
```
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netstat -Aan | grep .80 | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep EST | awk '{print $6}' | cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 | sort | uniq

janvanderwijk · 2012-02-03 13:54:11 4
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. Show Sample Output
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```
100 GB
```
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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"

janvanderwijk · 2012-02-03 13:58:41 3
Remove superfluous from conf file

Removes comments and blank lines from configuration files, leaving only settings
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grep -Ev '^( *$|#)' < conf.file

unixmonkey30404 · 2012-02-03 23:43:43 9
what model of computer I'm using?
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sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

jlaunay · 2012-02-08 11:28:46 3
grep directory and sub-directories

You don't need to use "*", it will fail if the working directory has too many fails due parameter extension, you can simply pass the working directory using ".".
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grep -r <searchterm> .

unixmonkey22658 · 2012-02-08 11:58:21 3
grep directory and sub-directories

You don't need to use "*", it will fail if the working directory has too many fails due parameter extension, you can simply pass the working directory using ".".
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grep -r <searchterm> .

unixmonkey22658 · 2012-02-08 11:59:17 3
grep directory and sub-directories
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rgrep <searchterm> *

kron4eg · 2012-02-08 12:35:45 5
Get IP address from Tor exit-node

Reciprocally, we could get the node name from a give Tor IP address => ip2node() { curl -s -d "QueryIP=$1" http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/tor_exit_query.php | grep -oP "Server name:.*'>\K\w+" ; } ip2node 204.8.156.142 BostonUCompSci Show Sample Output
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```
#: ip2node() { curl -s -d "QueryIP=$1" http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/tor_exit_query.php | grep -oP "Server name:.*'>\K\w+" ; }

#: ip2node 204.8.156.142

#: BostonUCompSci
```
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curl -s -d "CSField=Name" -d "CSInput=BostonUCompSci" http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index.php | grep -oP "ip=\K(\d+)(\.\d+){3}"

JisSey · 2012-03-09 16:52:27 3
list unique file extensions recursively for a path, include extension frequency stats

the find -printf "%f\n" prints just the file name from the given path. This means directory paths which contain extensions will not be considered. Show Sample Output
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```
.m3u
.M3U
.m4a
.m4v
.mp3
.Mp3
.MP3
```
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find /some/path -type f -and -printf "%f\n" | egrep -io '\.[^.]*$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

kyle0r · 2012-04-02 19:25:35 3
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Use find to get around Argument list too long problem

Can be used for other commands as well, replace rm with ls. It is easy to make this shorter but if the filenames involved have spaces, you will need to do use find's "-print0" option in conjunction with xargs's "-0" option. Otherwise the shell that xargs uses to execute the "rm" command line will treat the space as a token separator, thereby treating the name as two (or more) names.

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

Also looks in subfolders

Sort files by size

Git Tree Command with color and tag/branch name

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Watch YouTube and other Flash videos via mplayer (or whatever)

Many sites with Flash video players will download video files to /tmp on Linux, with temporary filenames like "FlashbGTHm4". These will often play in mplayer, totem, or other movie playing software. You must first navigate to a video page, let it start loading, and then pause playback.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

View the latest astronomy picture of the day from NASA.

Substitute feh for the image viewer of your choice. display (part of imagemagick) seems to be a popular choice.

Rip audio from a video file.

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Copy files and directories from a remote machine to the local machine

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