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Converting your Xfig 'fig' files to 'eps' and others

There is a huge number of supported "languages" to which you can export your .fig figures to. See. 'man fig2dev' (http://linux.die.net/man/1/fig2dev).
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fig2dev -L eps file.fig file.eps

droidery29 · 2011-04-25 01:02:25 10
How to expire the password to force her change [Linux]

This command is Linux compatible. It will prompt the user for a new password at next logon
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chage -d 0 -m 0 -M 60 [user]

mack · 2011-04-28 02:19:59 5
Find all e-mails older than 7 days in the queue and delete them

Find all files in /var/spool/mqueue older than 7 days, pass to perl to efficiently delete them (faster than xargs or -exec when you've got millions or hundreds of thousands to delete). Naturally the type, directory, and file age vars can be adjusted to meet your specific needs.
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find /var/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +7 | perl -lne unlink

mengesb · 2011-08-19 15:22:02 4
Convert windows text file to linux text document
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tr -d "\r" < dos.txt > linux.txt

totti · 2011-09-09 18:53:34 3
Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

since awk was already there one can use it instead of the 2 greps. might not be faster, but fast enough
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apt-get remove $(dpkg -l | awk "/^ii linux-(image|headers)/ && ! /`uname -r`/ {print \$2}")

_john · 2011-10-09 13:58:47 4
Install 4 new package files

after kernel build with make deb-pkg, I like to install the 4 newest packages that exist in the directory. Beware: might be fewer for you....
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sudo dpkg -i `ls -tr *.deb | tail -n4`

_john · 2011-10-09 14:20:11 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
Writes ID3 tags with track numbers for mp3s in current directory

Assumes that the files are named in numerical order (ie. 01 Filename.mp3). It will set the track number as tracknumber/totaltracks (ie. 1/14). This will write both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. Note: This only writes the track numbers.
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x="1" && z="`ls -l * | wc -l`"; for y in *.mp3; do `id3v2 --TRCK "$x/$z" "$y"`; x=$[$x+1]; done

robotmachine · 2011-11-17 18:52:59 4

You need to have figlet(for font) and cowsay installed then add it to your .bashrc file.You can see it every time after start a new session. Show Sample Output

figlet -f $(ls /usr/share/figlet/fonts/*.flf | shuf -n1) namakukingkong | cowsay -n -f $(ls /usr/share/cows/ | shuf -n1)

namakukingkong · 2011-11-25 13:54:06 4

Realtime clock cowsay

You need to have figlet(for font) and cowsay installed. Just copy n paste this command and you can see..... Show Sample Output

watch -tn1 'figlet -f slant `date +%T` | cowsay -n -f telebears'

namakukingkong · 2011-11-25 14:35:01 51

Find and sort by Resident Size of each process on the system in MB

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sudo ps aux --sort:rss | awk '{print $2"\t"$11": "$6/1024" MB"}' | column -t | less

threv · 2011-12-08 17:23:18 3

Stop iptables completely

If you changed the default policy on any chain other than filter table chain's, this won't be enough.
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iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT; iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT; iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT; for table in `cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names`; do iptables -t $table -F; iptables -t $table -Z; iptables -t $table -X; done

dash · 2011-12-15 18:19:34 42
Show CPU idle and used time

This command displays the CPU idle + used time using stats from /proc/stat. Show Sample Output
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```
idle 	 used
72.4139% 21.1866%
```
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grep "cpu " /proc/stat | awk -F ' ' '{total = $2 + $3 + $4 + $5} END {print "idle \t used\n" $5*100/total "% " $2*100/total "%"}'

Goez · 2012-01-21 04:12:50 3
Partition a new disk as all one partition tagged as LINUX_NATIVE

Creates a single primary partition starting at sector 0 and extending to the end of the disk. Use with care.
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echo "0,,L" | sfdisk /dev/sdX

twobitsprite · 2012-04-09 18:36:24 5
Listing all your bundles Entities files to issue a doctrine:generate:entities

When I do a major change in my entities, I want to find a way to find all my Entities names and create the commande for me. So instead of doing ls src/Your/OwnBundle... and then do it manually, this helps a lot. Show Sample Output
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```
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Catalog
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Site
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:User
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Software
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Template
...
```
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find ./src -type d -name "Entity" | xargs ls -A | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's_^_app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:_'

renoirb · 2012-04-11 21:28:02 3

Pretty print all of the Linux vm sysctls for your viewing pleasure

Sometimes you want to see all of the systcls for a given $thing. I happened to need to easily look at all of the vm sysctls between two boxes and compare them. This is what I came up with. Show Sample Output

find /proc/sys/vm -maxdepth 1 -type f | while read i ; do printf "%-35s\t%s\n" "$i" "$(<$i)" ; done | sort -t/ -k4

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 16:34:16 7

Kill the process *group* containing a process named svscan (djb's daemontools)

Daemontools[1] won't always properly reap it's children. Sometimes when you need to kill the main svscan process, you want to also clean up all of it's children. The way to do that is to send a signal to the entire process group. It is a bit tricky [1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
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kill -9 -$(ps x -o "%c %r" | awk '/svscan/{print $2}')

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 16:39:02 9
Disable an interface's multicast filter for testing

Disabling an interface's multicast filter is like disabling IGMP snooping on a switch. It is useful for testing and troubleshooting.
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ifconfig eth0 allmulti

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 16:43:41 3
Print a list of all disks or volumes attached to a system
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awk '{if ($NF ~ "^[a-zA-Z].*[a-zA-Z]$" && $NF !~ "name" || $NF ~ "c[0-9]+d[0-9]+$") print "/dev/"$NF}' /proc/partitions

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 16:59:33 3
Print out all partitions on a system
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awk '{if ($NF ~ "^[a-zA-Z].*[0-9]$" && $NF !~ "c[0-9]+d[0-9]+$" && $NF !~ "^loop.*") print "/dev/"$NF}' /proc/partitions

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 17:01:15 4
Get a server's serial number or Dell service tag from within linux

This returns the hardware serial number. Dell calls this the "Service Tag" and it can be used to retrieve warranty information or used for RMA / repairs. Show Sample Output
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```
9WFXHF1
```
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dmidecode -s system-serial-number

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 17:03:37 7
PulseAudio: set the volume via command line

This command sets the volume for the main PulseAudio "sink" (usually the ALSA output interface) to the maximum, 100% (the 0x10000 in the command). To set it to an arbitrary volume, replace 10000 with the volume you want times 100 (so 75% becomes 7500).
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pacmd set-sink-volume 0 0x10000

andycandet · 2012-07-17 15:02:56 3
Remount all NFS mounts on a host

`mount -o remount` doesn't pick up new NFS options (eg. timeo, soft, retrans, etc) so you need to do a full mount/remount cycle. This one-liner makes it quick and easy :) Update your fstab with the new options, then run it. Show Sample Output
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```
/mnt/foo
ok :)
/mnt/bar
ok :)
```
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for P in $(mount | awk '/type nfs / {print $3;}'); do echo $P; sudo umount $P && sudo mount $P && echo "ok :)"; done

amatix · 2012-10-14 22:39:58 4
avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Execute commands serially on a list of hosts. Each ssh connection is made in the background so that if, after five seconds, it hasn't closed, it will be killed and the script will go on to the next system. Maybe there's an easier way to set a timeout in the ssh options...
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for host in $MYHOSTS; do ping -q -c3 $H 2>&1 1>/dev/null && ssh -o 'AllowedAuthe ntications publickey' $host 'command1; command2' & for count in 1 2 3 4 5; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done

a8ksh4 · 2012-11-13 23:12:27 5
avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Cleaned up and silent with &>/dev/null at the end. Show Sample Output
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```
Nothing.
```
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for host in $HOSTNAMES; do ping -q -c3 $host && ssh $host 'command' & for count in {1..15}; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done &>/dev/null

somaddict · 2012-11-16 02:31:27 4
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list files recursively by size

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"

easily find megabyte eating files or directories

sorts the files by integer megabytes, which should be enough to (interactively) find the space wasters. Now you can $ dush for the above output, $ dush -n 3 for only the 3 biggest files and so on. It's always a good idea to have this line in your .profile or .bashrc

Change mysql prompt to be more verbose

You can put this into your shell sourced file like .bashrc or .zshrc to have a different mysql prompt. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/de/mysql-commands.html for more informations. Beware that currently with mysql 5.5 the seconds are buggy and won't be displayed if you put this into a .cnf file. With the enironment variable this will work.

True random passwords using your microphone noise as seed

Generate a truly random password using noise from your microphone to seed the RNG. This will spit out 12 password with 12 characters each, but you can save this into a bash script and replace 'pwgen -ys 12 12' with 'pwgen $@' so you can pass any paramters to pwgen as you would normally do.

execute your commands hiding secret bits from history records

$ wget --user=username --password="$password" http://example.org/ Instead of hiding commands entirely from history, I prefer to use "read" to put the password into a variable, and then use that variable in the commands instead of the password. Without the "-e" and "-s" it should work in any bourne-type shell, but the -s is what makes sure the password doesn't get echoed to the screen at all. (-e makes editing work a bit better)

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"

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

cycle through a 256 colour palette

Rainbow, instead of greys

Virtualbox rsync copy (without defining any virtualbox configuration)

That is, after running `vagrant ssh-config` to determine ports and ip's: $ vagrant ssh-config Host default HostName 127.0.0.1 User vagrant Port 2200 UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no PasswordAuthentication no IdentityFile /Users/romanvg/tmp/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key IdentitiesOnly yes LogLevel FATAL

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