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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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Watch the progress of 'dd'

run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on

Extract tarball from internet without local saving

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Virtualbox: setup hardware

where - memory 256 assign 256 Mb RAM - acpi on enable ACPI (mandatory if you use Winfog 2000 - ioapic off disable the IO APIC. Not useful if you use one CPU (on virtual machine or a 32 bit operative system). As ACPI, this switch is mandatory for Winbug 2000 - pae on enable the Phisical Address Extension how to use more than 4Gb of RAM on x86 CPU - hwvirtex on enables hardware virtualization extensions for microprocessors that have this feature (which should be also enabled in the BIOS of the motherboard) - nestedpaging on allows part of the processes of memory management hardware are made directly

Show contents of all git objects in a git repo

This script finds all git objects and `git cat-file`'s their content. This is really just a helper function to play around with the internals of git repositories. See https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects of more info.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

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" }

shell equivalent of a boss button

Nobody wants the boss to notice when you're slacking off. This will fill your shell with random data, parts of it highlighted. Note that 'highlight' is the Perl module App::highlight, not "a universal sourcecode to formatted text converter." You'll also need Term::ANSIColor.

Count number of Line for all the files in a directory recursively

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