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echo 'wget url' | at 01:00
2009-03-21 06:19:40
User: Vlad003
Functions: at echo
Tags: Linux echo wget schedule
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Schedule a download at a later time

Replace "url" with the correct address of what your're downloading. Replace 01:00 with what time you want. (24-hour clock).

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alias pst='pstree -Alpha'
2009-03-20 10:53:37
User: Alexander
Functions: alias
Tags: Linux
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Alias for displaying a process tree nicely

By 'pst' you can print out process tree with all details about all processes (including a command line, PID, and the current process you are running in).

By 'pst username' you can get an information about processes belonging to the particular user 'username'.

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sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'
2009-03-17 20:54:04
User: cidiom
Functions: sed
Tags: Linux
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Remove/replace newline characters.

Ever had a file with a list of numbers you wanted to add, use:

cat file | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/+/g' | bc
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sort file1.txt | uniq > file2.txt
2009-03-14 20:24:06
User: rain
Functions: sort uniq
Tags: bash Linux
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To have only unique lines in a file
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convert image123.png -colors 14 -resize 640x480 grubimg.xpm
2009-03-12 22:55:10
User: starchox
Tags: Linux grub boot
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Convert your favorite image in xpm for using in grub

* size must be 640?480 pixels

* only has 14 colors

* save it in XPM format

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add

splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/grubimg.xpm

make sure for your path name and hard disk

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find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'
2009-03-12 22:25:26
User: JesusSuperstar
Functions: find sed
Tags: bash Linux sed find tree map
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simulates the DOS tree command that you might be missing on your Mac or Linux box

NOT MINE! Taken from hackzine.com blog.

It creates a tree-style output of all the (sub)folders and (sub)files from the current folder and down(deeper)

Quoting some of hackzine's words

"Murphy Mac sent us a link to a handy find/sed command that simulates the DOS tree command that you might be missing on your Mac or Linux box. [..split...] Like most things I've seen sed do, it does quite a bit in a single line of code and is completely impossible to read. Sure it's just a couple of substitutions, but like a jack in the box, it remains a surprise every time I run it."

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mv file_name.extension ..
2009-03-09 15:35:58
User: takealeft
Functions: mv
Tags: Filesystem Ubuntu Linux mv
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Move a file up a directory.

cd into the directory that contains the file.

this is just the usual move command but shortcut'd.

say you wanted to move a photo img1.png from ~/photos/holidayphotos into the parent directory which is ~/photos

command would be:

~/photos/holidayphotos$ mv img1.png ..

I use Ubuntu so this'll work in debian but not sure what else.

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INFILE=/path/to/your/backup.img; MOUNTPT=/mnt/foo; PARTITION=1; mount "$INFILE" "$MOUNTPT" -o loop,offset=$[ `/sbin/sfdisk -d "$INFILE" | grep "start=" | head -n $PARTITION | tail -n1 | sed 's/.*start=[ ]*//' | sed 's/,.*//'` * 512 ]
2009-03-06 21:29:13
User: Alanceil
Functions: grep head mount sed tail
Tags: backup Linux mount mount point sfdisk image partition recovery restore
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Mount a partition from within a complete disk dump

Suppose you made a backup of your hard disk with dd:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/disk/backup.img

This command enables you to mount a partition from inside this image, so you can access your files directly.

Substitute PARTITION=1 with the number of the partition you want to mount (returned from sfdisk -d yourfile.img).

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some_cronjobed_script.sh 2>&1 | tee -a output.log | grep -C 1000 ERROR
2009-03-06 17:51:13
User: DEinspanjer
Functions: grep tee
Tags: Linux
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Log output from a cronjob to a file, but also e-mail if a string is found

The large context number (-C 1000) is a bit of a hack, but in most of my use cases, it makes sure I'll see the whole log output.

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taskset -c 0 your_command
2009-02-28 22:38:02
User: Alanceil
Functions: taskset
Tags: Linux affinity cpu multicore
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Start a command on only one CPU core

This is useful if you have a program which doesn't work well with multicore CPUs. With taskset you can set its CPU affinity to run on only one core.

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for vm in $(vmware-cmd -l);do echo -n "${vm} ";vmware-cmd ${vm} getstate|awk '{print $2 " " $3}';done
2009-02-26 16:45:04
User: dbart
Functions: echo
Tags: VMware Server Linux
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VMware Server print out the state of all registered Virtual Machines.

I use this command on my machines running VMware Server to print out the state of all registered Virtual machines.

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