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Commands tagged print

Terminal - Commands tagged print - 15 results

tcpdump -ntr NAME_OF_CAPTURED_FILE.pcap 'tcp[13] = 0x02 and dst port 80' | awk '{print $4}' | tr . ' ' | awk '{print $1"."$2"."$3"."$4}' | sort | uniq -c | awk ' {print $2 "\t" $1 }'

2012-08-22 21:26:10

User: efuoax

Functions: awk sort tcpdump tr uniq

Tags: awk uniq tcpdump print

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Read a tcpdump file and count SYN packets to port 80, Order column by destination.

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man -t ls > ls.ps && pdf2ps ls.ps && rm ls.ps

2012-04-08 11:48:25

User: fekrhdesigns

Functions: ls man rm

Tags: print

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print pdf man file

print pdf man ls

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"

2012-02-03 13:58:41

User: janvanderwijk

Tags: sed awk xargs grep print aix lsvg

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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.

ps -fea | grep PATTERN | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9

2012-01-27 20:31:36

User: k4ch0

Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs

Tags: awk xargs grep kill print ps

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Kill processes associated with PATTERN

Kill all process that concide whit PATTERN

tail -n +<N> <file> | head -n 1

2011-09-30 08:30:30

User: qweqq

Functions: head tail

Tags: sed awk tail grep printing print line number

-5

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To print a specific line from a file

Tail is much faster than sed, awk because it doesn't check for regular expressions.

awk '$3==$4' /etc/passwd

2011-09-15 19:13:18

User: totti

Functions: awk

Tags: file column print

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Print all lines from a file that has the same N th and M th column

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hexdump -c <file>

2011-09-09 09:54:16

User: totti

Functions: hexdump

Tags: binary print hexdump text

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print all characters of any file in human readble form using hexdump

- View non printable characters.

- view binary files

VAR="foo" ; awk '{ print '"$VAR"' }'

2011-04-15 07:56:20

User: FRUiT

Functions: awk

Tags: bash awk print

-2

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BASH: Print shell variable into AWK

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MyVAR=86; awk -v n=$MyVAR '{print n}'

2011-04-14 17:56:00

User: putnamhill

Functions: awk

Tags: bash awk print

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BASH: Print shell variable into AWK

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MyVAR=85 awk '{ print ENVIRON["MyVAR"] }'

2011-04-14 16:46:23

User: depesz

Functions: awk

Tags: bash awk print

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BASH: Print shell variable into AWK

Alternatively:

export MyVAR=84; awk '{ print ENVIRON["MyVAR"] }'

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MyVAR=84; awk '{ print "'"$MyVAR"'" }'

2011-04-14 15:49:50

User: EBAH

Functions: awk

Tags: bash awk print

-3

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BASH: Print shell variable into AWK

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for _a in {A..Z} {a..z};do _z=\${!${_a}*};for _i in `eval echo "${_z}"`;do echo -e "$_i: ${!_i}";done;done|cat -Tsv

2010-10-27 07:16:54

User: AskApache

Functions: cat echo

Tags: cat bash sort sed echo alias function print for builtin askapache do variable for loop env environment printenv done

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Print all environment variables, including hidden ones

This uses some tricks I found while reading the bash man page to enumerate and display all the current environment variables, including those not listed by the 'env' command which according to the bash docs are more for internal use by BASH. The main trick is the way bash will list all environment variable names when performing expansion on ${!A*}. Then the eval builtin makes it work in a loop.

I created a function for this and use it instead of env. (by aliasing env).

This is the function that given any parameters lists the variables that start with it. So 'aae B' would list all env variables starting wit B. And 'aae {A..Z} {a..z}' would list all variables starting with any letter of the alphabet. And 'aae TERM' would list all variables starting with TERM.

aae(){ local __a __i __z;for __a in "$@";do __z=\${!${__a}*};for __i in `eval echo "${__z}"`;do echo -e "$__i: ${!__i}";done;done; }

And my printenv replacement is:

alias env='aae {A..Z} {a..z} "_"|sort|cat -v 2>&1 | sed "s/\\^\\[/\\\\033/g"'

From: http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

convert -density 300 input.pdf -fill "rgb(255,255,255)" -opaque "rgb(0,0,0)" output.pdf

2010-10-07 17:24:19

User: akrog

Tags: pdf print convert

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Replaces a color in a PDF document, useful for removing a dark background before printing.

The pdf is first converted to a bitmap, so change "-density" to match your printer resolution. Also be careful about the RAM required.

In this example rgb(0,0,0) is replaced by rgb(255,255,255), change to suit your needs.

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ifconfig | awk '/HW/ {print $5}'

2009-11-05 18:00:50

User: Cont3mpo

Functions: awk ifconfig

Tags: ifconfig awk print mac

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Get ethX mac addresses

Simple MAC adrress, thanks to ifconfig.

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find . -name 'junkfiles-*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

2009-03-26 15:38:42

User: kancer

Functions: find xargs

Tags: find xargs print rm

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Use find to get around Argument list too long problem

Can be used for other commands as well, replace rm with ls.

It is easy to make this shorter but if the filenames involved have spaces, you will need to do use find's "-print0" option in conjunction with xargs's "-0" option. Otherwise the shell that xargs uses to execute the "rm" command line will treat the space as a token separator, thereby treating the name as two (or more) names.