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cat /etc/passwd | egrep -v "noshell|false|nologin" | cut -d: -f1,7

List usernames & their assigned shell. If their home directory is in /home and excepting those account that have their login shell set to: noshell, false, nologin Show Sample Output
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```
spool:/bin/bash
sshd:/bin/bash
fantasti:/usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell
munin:/bin/bash
```
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Get a list of user accounts and their login shell

jtypical · 2011-10-19 05:31:21 3
Unmount all CIFS drives

Unmounts all CIFS-based network drives. Very nice for shutting down network mounts on a Linux laptop just prior to going to sleep. Show Sample Output
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```
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/G... [DONE]
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/H... [DONE]
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/N... [DONE]
```
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for D in `mount -lt cifs | sed 's/.*on $\/.\+$ type.*/\1/'`; do echo -n "UNMOUNTING $D..."; sudo umount $D; echo " [DONE]"; done;

crazedsanity · 2011-10-19 18:14:19 4
Create a false directory structure for testing your commands

You could avoid xargs and sed in this case (shorter command and less forking): At least bash and zsh have some mighty string modifiers. I would also suggest using find with exec option to get more flexibility. You may leave out or include "special" file for example.
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for i in /usr/bin/* ;do touch ${i##*/}; done

_john · 2011-10-20 12:38:45 3
Command line calculator

use python as calculator, press ctrl+d to exit reminder: when doing factions add atleast one decimal number like so 22.0/7 or 22/7.0 Show Sample Output
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```
$ calc
>>> 22.0/7
3.1428571428571428
>>> 22/7.0
3.1428571428571428
>>> 
```
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alias calc='python -ic "from math import *; from random import *"'

Bonster · 2011-10-24 08:15:41 3
Prevent command history file from being overwritten by multiple shell sessions.

Takes effect immediately.
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echo "shopt -s histappend" >> ~/.bashrc ; . ~/.bashrc

dhart · 2011-11-03 09:57:18 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
Remove the first and the latest caracter of a string

Just an other solution :)
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echo foobar | sed -r 's/(^.|.$)//g'

ebraminio · 2011-11-19 16:19:07 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
Remove dashes in UUID

Remove the dashes from a UUID using bash search and replace. Show Sample Output
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```
63b726a04c5945e4af65bced5d268456
```
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UUID="63b726a0-4c59-45e4-af65-bced5d268456"; echo ${UUID//-/}

flatcap · 2011-11-22 22:49:30 103

Show demo of toilet fonts

Demos figlet/toilet fonts in a configurable dir. Show Sample Output

for i in ${TOILET_FONT_PATH:=/usr/share/figlet}/*.{t,f}lf; do j=${i##*/}; toilet -d "${i%/*}" -f "$j" "${j%.*}"; done

trevorj · 2011-12-27 00:49:42 3

Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Remove ANSI colors from stream or file
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sed -r 's/'$(echo -e "\033")'\[[0-9]{1,2}(;([0-9]{1,2})?)?[mK]//g'

frntn · 2012-01-04 20:57:09 5
Delimiter Hunting

Search in decimal rather than hex. od dumps the character list, cut to remove offsets, sort -u gives the used characters. seq gives the comparison list, but we need this sorted alphabetically for comm, which does the filtering. I drop to perl to convert back to characters (is there a better way?) and then use od to dump them in a print-safe format. Show Sample Output
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```
0000000  \0 001  \n   j   k  \v  \f   z   {   |   }   ~ 177  \r 016 017
0000020 020 021 022 023 002 024 025 026 027 030 031 032 033 034 035 003
0000040 036 037       !   "   #   $   %   &   ' 004   (   )   *   +   ,
0000060   -   .   /   0   1 005   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   :   ;
0000100 006   <   =   >   ?   @   A   B   C   D   E  \a   F   G   H   I
0000120   J   K   L   M   N   O  \b   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X
0000140   Y  \t   Z   [   \   ]   ^   _   `   a   b   c
0000154
```
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comm -13 <(od -vw1 -tu1 dummy.txt|cut -c9-|sort -u) <(seq 0 127|sort)|perl -pe '$_=chr($_)'|od -c

bazzargh · 2012-01-09 01:32:20 7
Remove a range of lines from a file

Delete range of lines. Ex: Line 6 through 66 in .
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sed -i 6,66d <filename>

icsamples · 2012-02-04 02:29:40 3
before writing a new script

or add this line to your ~/.vimrc if using vim
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:autocmd BufNewFile *.sh,*.bash 0put =\"#!/bin/bash\<nl># -*- coding: UTF8 -*-\<nl>\<nl>\"|$

jlaunay · 2012-02-06 08:28:05 26
new ssl key and csr based on a previous ssl certificate

regenerateCSR original.crt new.key new.csr Show Sample Output
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```
regenerateCSR original.crt new.key new.csr
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus
.....+++
......+++
e is 65537 (0x10001)
Getting request Private Key
Generating certificate request
```
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regenerateCSR () { openssl genrsa -out $2 2048; openssl x509 -x509toreq -in $1 -out $3 -signkey $2; }

mrnetops · 2012-02-17 02:45:26 3
Have your sound card call out elapsed time.

works the same, but uses festival instead of espeak
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for ((x=0;;x+=5)); do sleep 5; echo $x | festival --tts & done

mrklaw · 2012-03-06 21:17:51 4
Have your sound card call out elapsed time.

Says time every 5 seconds in hours, minutes and seconds using festival.
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for ((x=0;;x+=5)); do sleep 5; hours=$(($x/3600)); minutes=$(($x%3600/60)); seconds=$(($x%60)); echo "$hours hours $minutes minutes $seconds seconds have elapsed" | festival --tts & done

mrklaw · 2012-03-06 22:58:43 3
Print all words in a file sorted by length

Take a file and ,."()?!;: give a list of all the words in order of increasing length. First of all use tr to map all alphabetic characters to lower case and also strip out any puntuation. A-Z become a-z ,."()?!;: all become \n (newline) I've ignored - (hyphen) and ' (apostrophe) because they occur in words. Next use bash to print the length ${#w} and the word Finally sort the list numerically (sort -n) and remove any duplicates (sort -u). Note: sort -nu performs strangely on this list. It outputs one word per length. Show Sample Output
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```
...
9 suggested
9 unsightly
10 advantages
10 categorise
10 considered
10 everything
12 experimental
12 grandparents
13 insignificant
13 self-assembly
14 apologetically
```
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for w in $(tr 'A-Z ,."()?!;:' 'a-z\n' < sample.txt); do echo ${#w} $w; done | sort -u | sort -n

flatcap · 2012-03-15 14:14:11 5
Show git branches by date - useful for showing active branches

Simpler and without all of the coloring gimmicks. This just returns a list of branches with the most recent first. This should be useful for cleaning your remotes. Show Sample Output
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```
master
testing
this-shit-works
```
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for k in $(git branch | sed /\*/d); do echo "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ct" $k) $k"; done | sort -r | awk '{print $2}'

dahuie · 2012-04-07 11:19:00 6
Pretend your shell is MS-DOS command.com

(This may be specific to bash only.) This transforms the current working directory to all uppercase characters and replaces forward slashes with backslashes, prepending the string with "C:" and appending a single ">". It serves no practical purpose, but may serve as a great practical joke if you can insert it to some victim's .bashrc :-) Show Sample Output
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```
C:\>pwd
/
C:\>
```
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export PROMPT_COMMAND=$PROMPT_COMMAND'; export PWD_UPCASE="${PWD^^}"'; export PS1='C:${PWD_UPCASE//\\//\\\\}>'

chungy · 2012-04-30 20:09:49 3
Get the date for the last Saturday of a given month

Choosing your year and month. You only need the gnu date command and bash. desiredDay of the week is (1..7); 1 is Monday. If you want desiredDay of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday desiredDay=6; year=2012; month=5; n=0; while [ $(date -d "$year-$((month+1))-1 - $n day" "+%w") -ne $desiredDay ]; do n=$((n+1)); done; date -d "$year-$((month+1))-1 - $n day" "+%x" Show Sample Output
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```
05/26/2012
```
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desiredDay=6; year=2012; month=5; n=0; while [ $(date -d "$year-$((month+1))-1 - $n day" "+%u") -ne $desiredDay ]; do n=$((n+1)); done; date -d "$year-$((month+1))-1 - $n day" "+%x"

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-17 12:02:30 3
recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)

Handles spaces in file names and directories. Optionally change directories as well by pipe to tr from dirname.
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find ./ -type f -exec sh -c 'echo "{}" "$(dirname "{}")/$(basename "{}" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")"' \;

jelloir · 2012-06-14 07:13:42 3
Tracing shell scripts with time stamps

Enable tracing and print a timestamp before the command to be invoked. Original author: Peter Eisentraut http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2012/07/tracing-shell-scripts-with-time-stamps.html Show Sample Output
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```
user@example:~$ echo 'hello' && echo 'world!'
+13:09:15 echo hello
hello
+13:09:15 echo 'world!'
world!
```
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set -x && PS4='+\t '

em · 2012-07-19 11:13:47 6
enable all bash completions in gentoo
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eselect bashcomp enable --global $(eselect bashcomp list | sed -e 's/ //g'| cut -d']' -f2 | sed -e 's/\*//'| xargs)

proteusx · 2012-07-20 22:01:08 4
sum and average of requests responses times or sizes in Apache2 access log

Depending on your Apache access log configuration you may have to change the sum+=$11 to previous or next awk token. Beware, usually in access log last token is time of response in microseconds, penultimate token is size of response in bytes. You may use this command line to calculate sum and average of responses sizes. You can also refine the egrep regexp to match specific HTTP requests. Show Sample Output
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```
Tot=134020202(15201)
Avg=8816.54
```
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egrep '.*(("STATUS)|("HEAD)).*' http_access.2012.07.18.log | awk '{sum+=$11; ++n} END {print "Tot="sum"("n")";print "Avg="sum/n}'

fanchok · 2012-07-27 12:18:29 3
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Color man pages

Add the followin to ~/.bashrc #colour export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;37m' export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m' export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m' export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m' export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'

list block devices

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

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"

Set RGB gamma of secondary monitor

This command first determines whether a second screen is connected. If this is the case, it sets the screen's RGB gamma via xrandr. Useful for cheap or slightly defective monitors with a tint. In this example a yellowing/champagne color deviation is compensated for by decreasing the red and the green portion of the image.

Get DELL Warranty Information from support.dell.com

pretty much the same. I use awk rather than grep and perl. It looks like the URL has been updated. The service tag can also be retrieved via snmp - potential for a for loop over a list of servers. I might have a look into doing an example.

Remove all but one specific file

most used commands in history (comprehensive)

Most of the "most used commands" approaches does not consider pipes and other complexities. This approach considers pipes, process substitution by backticks or $() and multiple commands separated by ; Perl regular expression breaks up each line using | or < ( or ; or ` or $( and picks the first word (excluding "do" in case of for loops) note: if you are using lots of perl one-liners, the perl commands will be counted as well in this approach, since semicolon is used as a separator

Mount/unmount your truecrypted file containers

This should automatically mount it to /media/truecrypt1. Further mounts will go to /media/truecrypt2, and so on. You shouldn't need sudo/su if your permissions are right. I alias tru='truecrypt' since tr and true are commands. To explicitly create a mount point do: tru volume.tc /media/foo To make sure an GUI explorer window (nautilus, et al) opens on the mounted volume, add: --explorer To see what you currently have mounted do: tru -l To dismount a volume do: tru -d volume.tc. To dismount all mounted volumes at once do: tru -d Tested with Truecrypt v6.3a / Ubuntu 9.10

Comment current line

This should work with different locales. Another post reports

See your current RAM frequency

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