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determine if a shared library is compiled as 32bit or 64bit

file displays a files type the -L flag means follow sym-links (as libraries are often sym-linked to another this behavior is likely preferred) more complex behavior (*two* grep commands!) could be used to determine if the file is or is not a shared library.
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file -L <library> | grep -q '64-bit' && echo 'library is 64 bit' || echo 'library is 32 bit'

infinull · 2010-03-07 06:31:35 3
sorts /dev/random
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find /dev/ -name random -exec bash -c '[ -r $0 -a -w $0 ] && dd if=$0 | sort | dd of=$0' {} \;

winky · 2010-03-19 12:17:21 5
Bash function to see if the day ends in "y"

For those days when you need to know if something is happening because the day ends in "y". Show Sample Output
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```
$ ends_in_y
1
```
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function ends_in_y() { if [ `date +%A | sed -e 's/$^.*$$.$$/\2/'` == "y" ]; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi }

allrightname · 2010-04-06 20:14:34 7
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories, firm permissions
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find . -type f -exec chmod a-x {} \;

bandie91 · 2010-07-19 09:02:59 4

make ping run a little faster

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alias ping='ping -n'

wincus · 2011-01-19 23:39:21 3

Selecting a random file/folder of a folder

The same thing using only Bash built-in's. For readability I've kept the variables out, but it could me made extremely more compact (and totally unreadable!) by stuffing everything inside the single echo command.
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IFS=$'\n'; LIST=`ls -1`; let TOT=`echo $LIST | wc -w`-1 ; array=($LIST); echo "Selected ${array[ ($RANDOM % $TOT) ]}"

ntropia · 2011-03-13 21:30:44 3
BASH: Print shell variable into AWK
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MyVAR=84; awk '{ print "'"$MyVAR"'" }'

EBAH · 2011-04-14 15:49:50 3
Overcome Bash's expansion order

no need for seq or eval
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mkdir ${1..10}

linuts · 2011-07-23 19:20:35 6
Renaming files removing some unwanted extension

For those files in current folder that would be shown in `ls *ext`, for some extension ext, move/rename that file removing the .ext suffix from the file name. It uses Bash's parameter substitution, as seen in http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PCTPATREF (for analog use in prefix, see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PSOREX2 )
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for i in *ext; do mv $i ${i%.ext}; done

paulochf · 2011-11-13 03:58:08 8
convert from decimal to hexadecimal
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hex() { echo $1 16op | dc; }

mwgamera · 2011-12-12 17:12:31 3
Move files older than 30 days in current folder to "old" folder

Will move in that case every file in the current folder older than 30 days to the "old" folder Replace "mv $i old/" by any command such as rm / echo to do something different.
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for i in $(find . -mtime +30); do mv $i old/; done

valferon · 2014-02-05 01:24:45 7
Reports size of all folders in the current folder. Useful when burning CD's and DVD's
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export IFS=$'\n';for dir in $( ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c 52-);do du -sh $dir; done

whatshisname · 2009-02-28 20:30:15 5
!$ - The last argument to the previous command

After a command is run in bash, !$ is set to the last (space-delimited) argument of the command. Great for running several commands against the same file in a row.
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svn status app/models/foo.rb; svn commit -m "Changed file" !$

ggoodale · 2009-03-22 23:14:06 5
Press Any Key to Continue

how to finish command or script without any output Show Sample Output
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```
root@ubuserver:~# read enterKey

root@ubuserver:~#
```
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read enterKey

bbmarek · 2009-12-29 00:18:32 7
download file1 file2 file3 file4 .... file 100

With counter format [001, 002, ..., 999] , nice with pictures or wallpapers collections.
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for file in $(seq -f '%03.f' 1 $TOTAL ); do echo "($file/$TOTAL)"; curl -f -O http://domain.com/Name_$file.ext; done

nordri · 2010-01-12 15:23:44 6
Combining text files into one file

the last person who posted used the most roundabout way to concatinate files, there's a reason there's a "conCATinate" command... Using this method, you also get to choose the order of the files, below another person just did *.txt > combined.txt which is fine but the order depends on the implementation of "cat" which is probably alphabetical order of filenames. Show Sample Output
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```
$cat stdHeader tableOfContents introduction body conclusion worksCited index  > researchPaper
$pwd; ls;
/home/ginoman/researchPapers/sample/
body                conclusion                index
introduction        researchPaper             stdHeader
tableOfContents     worksCited
$
```
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cat file1 ... fileN > combinedFile;

GinoMan2440 · 2010-04-17 01:00:04 4
Download a file securely via a remote SSH server
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scp $user@$server:$path/to/file .

burned · 2010-08-02 16:26:10 4
before writing a new script

Writes out the shebang line (#!/bin/bash) to the script.
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echo '#!'$(which bash) > script.sh

sharfah · 2012-02-06 08:25:27 8
Create a directory and change into it at the same time
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function mkdcd () { mkdir "$1" && cd "$1" }

shinokada · 2013-08-31 12:48:13 26
..(), go up in directory tree, func to long please refer to description

many have aliases like: alias ...="cd ../../" alias ....="cd ../../../" and so furth. ..() mitigates to need for those aliases, see sample output for an example # .. -> go up 1 directory # .. 4 -> go up 4 directories ..() { local DIR='' declare -i NUM=0 if [[ ${1} =~ ^[1-9][0-9]*$ ]] then while (( ${NUM} < ${1:-1} )) do DIR="${DIR}../" NUM=$(( ${NUM} + 1 )) done else DIR=.. fi cd "${DIR}" } Show Sample Output
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```
[ ~/temp/foo/bar/baz ] $ .. 3
[ ~/temp ] $ 
```
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[ ~/temp/foo/bar/baz ] $ .. 3

Xk2c · 2015-01-01 20:41:17 10
Kill a background job

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```
$ ping www.google.com &
$ jobs
[1]+  Running                 ping www.google.com &
$ kill %1
[1]+  Terminated              ping www.google.com &
$
```
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kill %1

prayer · 2009-04-09 11:54:13 4

Remove current directory (REVISED)

Credit goes to "eightmillion" Show Sample Output

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removedir(){ read -p "Delete the current directory $PWD ? " human;if [ "$human" = "yes" ]; then [ -z "${PWD##*/}" ] && { echo "$PWD not set" >&2;return 1;}; rm -Rf ../"${PWD##*/}"/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }

oshazard · 2010-01-20 08:01:21 9

View the newest xkcd comic.

Add an alias to your .bashrc that allows you to issue the command xkcd to view (with gwenview) the newest xkcd comic... I know there are thousands of them out there but this one is at least replete with installer and also uses a more concise syntax... plus, gwenview shows you the downloading progress as it downloads the comic and gives you a more full featured viewing experience.
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echo alias xkcd="gwenview `w3m -dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png | awk '{print $5}'` 2> /dev/null" >> .bashrc

GinoMan2440 · 2010-01-30 20:38:16 5
Short one line while loop that outputs parameterized content from one file to another
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while read col1 col23; do echo $col1; done < three-column.txt > first-column.txt

infinull · 2010-07-09 03:59:20 3
View the newest xkcd comic.

KISS To get a random xkcd comic: xdg-open http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
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xdg-open http://xkcd.com/

unixmonkey8024 · 2010-08-25 19:14:11 3
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list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

HTTP Get of a web page via proxy server with login credentials

If you are behind a proxy server and have to authenticate with proxy server to browser web pages then you have to pass proxy server address and its port number along with user credentials to curl to got GET the page using curl. Example : "curl -U srikanth -x 167.85.103.70:8080 http://www.yahoo.com". In case you don't specify the password (as in the above example), curl will prompt to enter the password at the command line.

Change the From: address on the fly for email sent from the command-line

It's very common to have cron jobs that send emails as their output, but the From: address is whatever account the cron job is running under, which is often not the address you want replies to go to. Here's a way to change the From: address right on the command line. What's happening here is that the "--" separates the options to the mail client from options for the sendmail backend. So the -f and -F get passed through to sendmail and interpreted there. This works on even on a system where postfix is the active mailer - looks like postfix supports the same options. I think it's possible to customize the From: address using mutt as a command line mailer also, but most servers don't have mutt preinstalled.

Convert PDF to JPG

Without the bashisms and unnecessary sed dependency. Substitutions quoted so that filenames with whitespace will be handled correctly.

List files with full path

monitor a tail -f command with multiple processes

when using named pipes only one reader is given the output by default. Also, most commands piped to by grep use a buffer which save output until tail -f finishes, which is not convenient. Here, using a combination of tee, sub-processes and the --line-buffered switch in grep we can workaround the problem.

Securely destroy data on given device

Intentional hash in the beginning. May run a looong time. Wipes your data for real. Was meant to be /dev/urandom - I mistyped it. :-)

cleanup /tmp directory

Cleans all files in /tmp that have been accessed at least 2 days ago.

What is my public IP-address?

alternative to $curl ifconfig.me for those that don't have curl

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