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Commands tagged remote

Terminal - Commands tagged remote - 14 results

48 function gbl() { git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(committerdate) %(authorname) %(refname)' refs/remotes/origin/|grep -e ".$@"|head -n 10; }

2012-12-13 23:35:06

User: soheil

Functions: grep head

Tags: git remote quick branch

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List Remote Git Branches By Author

Place in .bash_profile

ssh remotehosts;date

2012-11-09 01:14:24

User: kiiwii

Functions: ssh

Tags: ssh down remote time

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show you the time when you lost the remote server.

Run this within a steady screen session.

You can get the approximate time when the remote server went down or other abnormal behavior.

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multitail -l 'ssh machine1 "tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log"' -l 'ssh machine2 "tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log"'

2011-10-12 10:05:18

User: mischamolhoek

Tags: ssh tail remote multitail

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Watch several log files of different machines in a single multitail window on your own machine

this way you have the multitail with all its options running on your own machine with the tails of the two remote machines inside :)

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git config --local --get remote.origin.url

2011-10-03 09:29:34

User: hced

Tags: git remote output github origin

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[git] Output remote origin from within a local repository

Great way to quickly grasp if a locally cloned repository originates from e.g. github or elsewhere.

git branch | cut -c3- | grep -v "^master$" | while read line; do git branch -d $line; done | grep 'Deleted branch' | awk '{print $3;}' | while read line; do git push <target_remote> :$line; done

2011-08-13 16:58:34

User: gocoogs

Functions: awk cut grep read

Tags: git remote maintenance branch repository

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delete local *and* remote git repos if merged into local master

attempts to delete all local branches. git will fail on any branches not fully merged into local master, so don't worry about losing work. git will return the names of any successfully deleted branches. Find those in the output with grep, then push null repositories to the corresponding names to your target remote.

assumes:

- your local and remote branches are identically named, and there's nothing extra in the remote branch that you still want

- EDIT: you want to keep your local master branch

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wget --spider $URL 2>&1 | awk '/Length/ {print $2}'

2011-07-03 00:14:58

User: d3Xt3r

Functions: awk wget

Tags: size wget file remote server

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Retrieve the size of a file on a server

- Where $URL is the URL of the file.

- Replace the $2 by $3 at the end to get a human-readable size.

Credits to svanberg @ ArchLinux forums for original idea.

Edit: Replaced command with better version by FRUiT. (removed unnecessary grep)

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ssh -R 9000:localhost:9000 you@remote-php-web-server.com

2011-05-28 09:39:16

User: nadavkav

Functions: ssh

Tags: ssh remote debug PHP xdebug

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Debug a remote php application (behind firewall) using ssh tunnel for XDEBUG port 9000

If you need to xdebug a remote php application, which is behind a firewall, and you have an ssh daemon running on that machine. you can redirect port 9000 on that machine over to your local machine from which you run your xdebug client (I am using phpStorm)

So, run this command on your local machine and start your local xdebug client, to start debugging.

more info:

http://code.google.com/p/spectator/wiki/Installing

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sudo rpm -if "http://rpm_server/rpm_repo/this-app.rpm"

2011-05-23 08:19:15

User: igorfu

Functions: rpm sudo

Tags: rpm remote

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Install a remote RPM

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ssh user@remoteserver "PGPASSWORD='passwd' pg_dump -U user bd_name | bzip2 -zv9" | bzcat | psql -U user bd_name

2010-09-24 20:25:42

User: chronos

Functions: ssh

Tags: ssh remote PostGres dump populate

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dump a remote db via ssh and populate local db with postgres

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DISPLAY=":0.0" import -window root screenshot.png

2010-02-17 13:02:24

User: walterl

Tags: Linux remote display screenshot import

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Remote screenshot

The `export` is unnecessary if it's only applicable to the one command.

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export DISPLAY=":0.0" && import -window root screenshot.png

2010-02-17 12:13:49

User: fraktil

Functions: export

Tags: Linux remote display screenshot import

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Remote Screenshot

Like the given command, but combines _DISPLAY=":0.0"_ with _export DISPLAY_ to get _export DISPLAY=":0.0"_ and only imports if DISPLAY is set successfully.

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vimdiff scp://root@server-foo.com//etc/snmp/snmpd.conf scp://root@server-bar.com//etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

2010-01-06 18:12:45

User: sputnick

Tags: vim remote scp

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Colored diff ( via vim ) on 2 remotes files on your local computer.

You can use

vim scp://root@example.com//file

too in a simple case.

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diff <(ssh alice cat /etc/apt/sources.list) <(ssh bob cat /etc/apt/sources.list)

2009-04-03 20:54:16

User: funollet

Functions: cat diff ssh

Tags: ssh diff remote

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Diff files on two remote hosts.

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rsync -avz -e 'ssh -A sshproxy ssh' srcdir remhost:dest/path/

2009-03-25 21:29:07

User: totoro

Functions: rsync

Tags: copy directory files rsynch remote secure

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Remote copy directories and files through an SSH tunnel host

If you have lots of remote hosts sitting "behind" an ssh proxy host, then there is a special-case use of "rsynch" that allows one to easily copy directories and files across the ssh proxy host, without having to do two explicit copies: the '-e' option allows for a replacement "rsh" command. We use this option to specify an "ssh" tunnel command, with the '-A' option that causes authentication agent requests to be forwarded back to the local host. If you have ssh set up correctly, the above command can be done without any passwords being entered.

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