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for i in $(svn st | grep "?" | awk '{print $2}'); do svn add $i; done;
2009-02-16 11:16:41
User: raz
Functions: awk grep
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Add all files not under subversion control
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netstat -anl | grep :80 | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d ":" -f 1 | uniq -c | sort -n | grep -c IPHERE
2009-02-16 08:54:08
User: nullrouter
Functions: awk cut grep netstat sort uniq
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Who has the most Apache connections.

This will tell you who has the most Apache connections by IP (replace IPHERE with the actual IP you wish to check). Or if you wish, remove | grep -c IPHERE for the full list.

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netstat -pant 2> /dev/null | grep SYN_ | awk '{print $5;}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -20
2009-02-16 08:49:38
User: unixmonkey982
Functions: awk cut grep netstat sort tail uniq
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List top 20 IP from which TCP connection is in SYN_RECV state

List top 20 IP from which TCP connection is in SYN_RECV state.

Useful on web servers to detect a syn flood attack.

Replace SYN_ with ESTA to find established connections

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xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}' | xargs ps h -o pid,cmd
2009-02-16 07:55:19
User: jackhab
Functions: awk ps xargs
Tags: Process Management windows process GUI
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Click on a GUI window and show its process ID and command used to run the process

This command is useful when you want to know what process is responsible for a certain GUI application and what command you need to issue to launch it in terminal.

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sudo dpkg --purge `dpkg -l | awk '/^r/{print $2}'`
2009-02-16 02:18:02
User: elleryq
Functions: awk sudo
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purge all packages marked with 'rc'

After you install/remove lots of packages, there are many packages marked with 'rc'. This script help you to purge these packages, it will save some spaces from your disk.

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bdf | awk '(NF<5){f=$1; next} (NF>5){f=$1} {print f, $2, $3, $NF}'
2009-02-15 22:54:52
User: dcarlisle
Functions: awk
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Takes a multi line df or bdf and turns it into just one line
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netstat -anp |grep 'tcp\|udp' | awk '{print $5}' | sed s/::ffff:// | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2009-02-15 09:16:16
User: dt
Functions: awk cut netstat sed sort uniq
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count IPv4 connections per IP

usefull in case of abuser/DoS attacks.

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ls -l | awk '{k=0;for(i=0;i<=8;i++)k+=((substr($1,i+2,1)~/[rwx]/)*2^(8-i));if(k)printf("%0o ",k);print}'
2009-02-13 19:20:54
User: iArno
Functions: awk ls
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Octal ls

Do ls with permissions written in octal form.

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ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet addr/ {split ($2,A,":"); print A[2]}'
2009-02-13 14:02:35
User: sylvain
Functions: awk ifconfig
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Getting the ip address of eth0
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svn st | grep /main/java | awk '{print $2}' | xargs echo | xargs svn ci -m "my comment here"
2009-02-11 16:31:05
User: Antoine
Functions: awk echo grep xargs
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Commit all the changes in your java code
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history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
2009-02-11 13:12:29
User: unixmonkey611
Functions: awk sort
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List of commands you use most often
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FAIL2BAN=`ps ax | grep fail2ban | grep -v grep | awk {'print $1'}` && if [ -n "$FAIL2BAN" ]; then printf "\n[INFO] Fail2Ban is running and the PID is %s\n\n" $FAIL2BAN; else printf "\n [INFO] Fail2Ban is not running\n\n"; fi
2009-02-11 04:36:49
User: fmdlc
Functions: awk grep printf
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Check if Fail2Ban is Running

Check if Fail2Ban is running on the system and alert it with a message in the terminal

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find ./* -name 'CVS' | awk '{print "dos2unix " $1 "/*"}' | awk '{system($0)}'
2009-02-11 01:01:56
User: kongxx
Functions: awk find
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Recover cvs ": no such repository" error
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svn st | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" | xargs rm -rf
2009-02-10 21:15:23
User: l33tminion
Functions: awk grep rm xargs
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delete unversioned files in a checkout from svn
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accurev stat -M -fl | awk '{print "\"" $0 "\""}' | xargs accurev pop
2009-02-09 19:22:39
User: adamm9
Functions: awk stat xargs
Tags: SCM
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Execute AccuRev pop command to retrieve missing files from a workspace.
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awk '{ FS = OFS = "#" } { if ($9==1234) print }' filename*.log > bigfile.log
2009-02-09 18:26:25
User: trunet
Functions: awk
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Show a line when a "column" matchs
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ls -la | awk '$3 == "oracle" || $3 == "root" {print $9}'
2009-02-07 18:50:17
User: mnikhil
Functions: awk ls
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list files by testing the ownership
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ls -la | awk '{print $5, " " ,$9}' | sort -rn
2009-02-07 18:49:56
User: mnikhil
Functions: awk ls sort
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file sizes of current directory
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last | awk '$1!~/wtmp/{logs[$1]++}END{for (i in logs) print i, logs[i]}'
2009-02-07 18:43:33
User: mnikhil
Functions: awk last
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to get how many users logged in and logged out and how many times purely using awk
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last | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c | grep -v wtmp
2009-02-07 18:42:59
User: mnikhil
Functions: awk grep last sort uniq
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To get how many users logged in and logged out and how many times ?
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kill -HUP ` ps -aef | grep -i firefox | sort -k 2 -r | sed 1d | awk ' { print $2 } ' `
2009-02-07 10:10:45
User: vasudevram
Functions: awk grep kill ps sed sort
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UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process

The description of how the one-liner works is here at my blog:

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html

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pidof () { ps acx | egrep -i $@ | awk '{print $1}'; }
2009-02-06 15:33:46
User: pmbuko
Functions: awk egrep pidof ps
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Get a process's pid by supplying its name
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awk '!_[$0]++{print}'
2009-02-06 09:52:35
User: dz
Functions: awk
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uniq for unsorted data
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kill -HUP `ps -A -ostat,ppid,pid,cmd | grep -e '^[Zz]' | awk '{print $2}'`
2009-02-06 02:42:14
User: liupeng
Functions: awk grep kill
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find and kill a zombie process

You cannot kill zombies, as they are already dead. But if you have too many zombies then kill parent process or restart service.

You can kill zombie process using PID obtained from the above command. For example kill zombie proces having PID 4104:

# kill -9 4104

Please note that kill -9 does not guarantee to kill a zombie process.

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ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 " " $11}' | grep -w Z
2009-02-06 02:38:20
User: liupeng
Functions: awk grep ps
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find out zombie process
8~osstat, $2~pid, $11~cmd
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