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find names of files ending in *log that have both foo and bar

Uses xargs to call the second grep with the first grep's results as arguments
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grep -l bar *.log | xargs grep -l foo

dlebauer · 2011-01-10 19:54:46 3
Search through files, ignoring .svn

Unless you have files that include 'svn' in them, this should provide enough information to be useful. If you need to be certain, add the leading dot in the search pattern
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find . | grep -v svn

gwchamb · 2011-01-16 03:51:57 4
Fetch current song from last.fm
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curl -s http://www.last.fm/user/$LASTFMUSER | grep -A 1 subjectCell | sed -e 's#<[^>]*>##g' | head -n2 | tail -n1 | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//g'

sn0opy · 2011-01-24 08:16:48 3
Find artist and title of a music cd, UPC code given (first result only)

Substitute that 724349691704 with an UPC of a CD you have at hand, and (hopefully) this oneliner should return the $Artist - $Title, querying discogs.com. Yes, I know, all that head/tail/grep crap can be improved with a single sed command, feel free to send "patches" :D Enjoy! Show Sample Output
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```
Iron Maiden - Killers
```
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wget http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 -O foobar &> /dev/null ; grep \/release\/ foobar | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>$.*$<\/a><\/div>/\1/' ; rm foobar

TetsuyO · 2011-01-30 23:34:54 3
External IP address
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curl ifconfig.me

juanmi · 2011-02-28 17:36:07 4
Clean-up release directories keeping the only the latest two

Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD) Show Sample Output
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```
user@server:~/apps/appname/releases$ ls
2010-12-02-121502  2010-12-01-215457
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf

wilmoore · 2011-03-08 17:38:26 6
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

Same as 7272 but that one was too dangerous so i added -P to prompt users to continue or cancel Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel).
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sudo aptitude remove -P $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-2/{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)}')

Bonster · 2011-04-25 05:19:57 3
convert chrome html export to folders, links and descriptions

chrome only lets you export in html format, with a lot of table junk, this command will just export the titles of the links and the links without all that extra junk Show Sample Output
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```
<h3>search engines</h3>
<a href="http://google.com/">google search engine</a>
```
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grep -E '<DT><A|<DT><H3' bookmarks.html | sed 's/<DT>//' | sed '/Bookmarks bar/d' | sed 's/ ADD_DATE=\".*\"//g' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | tr '<A HREF' '<a href'

chrismccoy · 2011-05-26 22:21:01 8
Count the lines of source code in directory, ignoring files in generated by svn

There's nothing particularly novel about this combination of find, grep, and wc, I'm just putting it here in case I want it again. Show Sample Output
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```
123 ./src/java/com/company/app/service/Foo.java
 42 ./test/java/com/company/app/service/FooTests.java
165 total
```
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find . -name '*.java' -o -name '*.xml' | grep -v '\.svn' | xargs wc -l

ewilson · 2011-06-30 12:45:40 5
Alternative for basename using grep to extract file name

fileName /path/to/file.ext quivalent to basename /path/to/file.ext Show Sample Output
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```
$ fileName /path/to/file.ext
file.ext
$ 
```
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fileName() { echo "$1" | grep -o "[^/]*$"; }

totti · 2011-08-19 18:16:22 3
Show all TODOs and a few relative lines after it.

This will recursively go through every file under the current directory showing all lines containing "TODO" as well as 10 lines after it. The output will be marked with line numbers to make it easier to find where the TODO is in the actual file.
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grep -rnA 10 TODO *

blockcipher · 2011-09-28 16:26:14 3
find&grep all in once

calls grep on all non-binary files returned by find on its current working directory Show Sample Output
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```
./Main.java://	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
```
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#!/bin/bash find | grep -P -v "(class)|(zip)|(png)|(gz)|(gif)|(jpeg)|(jpg)" | xargs -I @ grep -H $1 @

kirdie · 2011-10-14 13:28:49 4
find php files even without extension

needs grep what supports '--recursive' Show Sample Output
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```
./CustomFields/add-avatars.php
./examples/example-widget.php
./examples/multiwidget.php
./examples/Recent_Comments.php
./examples/Recent_Posts.php
```
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grep -Ilr "<?php" .

mitry · 2011-10-23 05:11:53 3
multiline re search recursive
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pcregrep --color -M -N CRLF -e "SQLEngine\.\w+\W*$[^$]*\)" -r --include='\.java$'

hute37 · 2012-01-16 09:19:40 6
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

simple table
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for k in `git branch -r|awk '{print $1}'`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci_%C(blue)%c r_%Cred%cn_%Creset" $k|head -n 1`$k;done|sort -r|awk -F"_" '{printf("%s %17s %-22s %s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4)}'

varon · 2012-10-29 12:38:24 6
Print the local ip on a wireless connection

On wired connections set 'eth0' instead of 'wlan0'
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sudo ifconfig wlan0 | grep inet | awk 'NR==1 {print $2}' | cut -c 6-

mouths · 2013-02-18 14:10:07 8
Open Port Check

Open Port Check
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netstat -an | grep --color -i -E 'listen|listening'

opexxx · 2013-03-19 08:53:47 6
Easily find an old command you run
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cat $HISTFILE | grep command

Stolas · 2013-05-01 13:11:05 7
Sort files in $PWD by year embedded anywhere in filename
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ls --color=never -1| grep -E "[0-9]{4}"|sed -re "s/^(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)$/\2 \1\2\3/" | sort -r

ysangkok · 2014-01-04 20:50:12 9
find and output files content with filtering by filename and specific string
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find . -name *.properties -exec /bin/echo {} \; -exec cat {} \; | grep -E 'listen|properties'

altern · 2014-02-17 02:25:49 7

Function that searchs a process by its name and shows in the terminal. * Shows the Header for reference * Hides the process 'grep' from the list * Case sensitive Show Sample Output

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psg(){ ps aux | grep -v grep | egrep -e "$1|USER"; }

ivanalejandro0 · 2014-12-31 22:27:27 9

Code to check if a module is used in python code
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find . -name "*.ipynb" -exec grep -l "symspellpy" {} \;

shantanuo · 2021-01-17 03:49:03 205
Show live HTTP requests being made on OS X

Replace "en1" with your network interface (on OS X, usually en0, en1, eth0, etc..) Show Sample Output
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```
GET /services/rest/news/new/?stamp=1238809183049 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.qbn.com
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: news.bbc.co.uk
GET /services/rest/news/new/?stamp=1238809185049 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.qbn.com
```
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sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*"

peterc · 2009-04-04 01:41:48 8
Find 'foo' in located files

Greps located files for an expression. Example greps all LaTeX files for 'foo': locate *.tex | xargs grep foo To avoid searching thousands of files with grep it could be usefull to test first how much files are returned by locate: locate -c *.tex
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locate searchstring | xargs grep foo

zimon · 2009-04-16 12:51:24 5
count how many times a string appears in a (source code) tree

grep's -c outputs how may matches there are for a given file as "file:N", cut takes the N's and awk does the sum. Show Sample Output
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```
34
```
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grep -rc logged_in app/ | cut -d : -f 2 | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

terceiro · 2009-07-15 14:16:44 9
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Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

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)

Takes and displays screenshot of Android phone over adb.

Dependencies on phone: adb access, screencap command, base64 command. Dependencies on computer: adb, sed, base64, display (from imagemagick, but can substitute other image viewer which reads from stdin). This should work around adb stupidies (i.e. that it replaces \n with \r\n) with base64.

Alternative way to generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password usig sed

This is what I came up to generate XKCD #936 style four-word password. Since first letter of every word is capitalized it looks a bit more readable to my eyes. Also strips single quotes. And yes - regex is a bit of a kludge, but that's the bes i could think of.

Create a backup of the file.

It will create a backup of the filename. The advantage is that if you list the folder the backups will be sorted by date. The command works on any unix in bash.

Anti DDOS

Takes IP from web logs and pipes to iptables, use grep to white list IPs.. use if a particular file is getting requested by many different addresses. Sure, its already down pipe and you bandwidth may suffer but that isnt the concern. This one liner saved me from all the traffic hitting the server a second time, reconfigure your system so your system will work like blog-post-1.php or the similar so legitimate users can continue working while the botnet kills itself.

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)

stringContains: Determining if a String Contains a Substring

Fast file backup

This is a BASH feature. The above command will create a backup of "filename" called "filename.DATE", where DATE is the actual day in %Y%m%d (year, month and day numbers together) format.

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