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Print the 16 most recent RPM packages installed in newest to oldest order

Display a list of the 16 most recently installed RPM packages with newest first. Show Sample Output

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{INSTALLTIME} %{name}-%{version}-%{release}\n' | sort -k 1,1 -rn | nl | head -16 | awk '{printf("%3d %s %s\n", $1,strftime("%c",$2),$3)}'

mpb · 2018-09-12 17:47:26 337

Toggle the Touchpad on or off
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tp=$(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk '{ print $3 }') && tp=$((tp==0)) && synclient TouchpadOff=$tp

jny · 2018-10-09 07:42:32 375
Identifies the file types in a directory and adds or replaces their file extensions.

It tries to identify the file types in a directory and adds or replaces them with their appropriate extensions. Please, update the "file" tool before use it (last version: 5.37): https://github.com/file/file
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find "$(realpath .)" -type f -exec bash -c 'p="{}"; b="${p##*/}"; e=${b#"${b%.*}"}; e2=$(file -b -F="" --extension "$p"| awk -F/ '\''$1~/^\w+$/ {print $1} '\''); if [ "$e" != ".$e2" ] && [ ! -z $e2 ]; then mv "$p" "${p%$b}${b%$e}.$e2"; fi;' \;

mikhail · 2019-05-18 01:56:25 40
Define a word from Linux Terminal

The link gets the definition from vocabulary.com. In case you are behind firewall, use --proxy URL in the curl option. Show Sample Output
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```
A welcome is a greeting that usually comes when you first arrive. Although you aren;t fond of Aunt Martha, you always manage to give her a warm welcome when she comes to visit.
```
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function define() { curl -s https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/$1 | grep 'og:description' | sed 's/&#[0-9][0-9][0-9]//g' | awk -F "\"" '{print $4}' }; define welcome

snehanshu11 · 2019-06-11 11:57:15 43
Autocomplete directories (CWDs) of other ZSH processes (MacOS version)

MacOS Solution due to lack of pidof command and procfs on MacOS Kernel. Show Sample Output
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```
[ name@host ~/scripts ]$ xcd <TAB>
/Users/name/scripts              /Users/name/scripts/Boltdir
/usr/local/bin                   /var/log/
```
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function _xterm_cwds() { for pid in $(pgrep -x zsh); do reply+=$(lsof -p $pid | grep cwd | awk '{print $9}') done }; function xcd() { cd $1 }; compctl -K _xterm_cwds xcd

cdiehl · 2019-06-15 02:26:11 35
find all files that have 20 or more MB on every filesystem, change the size and filesystem to your liking

find all files that have 20 or more MB on every filesystem, change the size and filesystem to your liking
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find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2> /dev/null | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }' | sort -nrk 2,2

Marius · 2019-07-08 21:04:09 37
Print hugepage consumption of each process

The sample output is from an Android Device Show Sample Output
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```
/vendor/bin/hw/qcrild-c2 smaps:AnonHugePages:      2048 kB

/vendor/bin/imsdatadaemon smaps:AnonHugePages:      4096 kB

/vendor/bin/imsdatadaemon smaps:AnonHugePages:      2048 kB
```
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grep -e AnonHugePages /proc/*/smaps | awk '{ if($2>4) print $0} ' | awk -F "/" '{system("cat /proc/" $3 "/cmdline");printf("\n");print $0; printf("\n");}'

praton · 2020-01-14 07:50:44 98
Check if the same table name exist across different databases

Useful command for MySQL Show Sample Output
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```
Count of databases for e.g. 3
```
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find . -name "withdrownblocks.frm" | sort -u | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | wc -l

shantanuo · 2020-02-09 07:22:42 86
Change values from 0 to 100
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awk '{if ($3 =="LAN" && $5 == "0.00" ) print $1, $2, "LAN", "288", "100.00"; else print $1 ,$2, $3, $4, $5 }' sla-avail-2013-Feb > sla-avail-2013-Feb_final

shantanuo · 2020-02-15 10:37:44 76

List SAN domains for a certificate

List SAN Domains for a certificate Show Sample Output

echo | openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 2>&1 | openssl x509 -noout -text | awk -F, -v OFS="\n" '/DNS:/{x=gsub(/ *DNS:/, ""); $1=$1; print $0}'

shadyabhi · 2020-04-10 06:56:51 88

Login history Mac OS X

2d - is a shortcut for a period back in time Show Sample Output
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```
2020-05-28 21:49:37.140751+0200
2020-05-28 23:15:00.242348+0200
2020-05-29 11:20:36.974778+0200
2020-05-29 13:59:04.477616+0200
2020-05-29 15:11:21.299773+0200
2020-05-29 17:55:59.941100+0200
2020-05-30 09:12:55.268262+0200
```
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% sudo log show --style syslog --last 2d | awk '/Enter/ && /unlockUIBecomesActive/ {print $1 " " $2}'

Repie · 2020-05-30 07:27:17 106
Observing the difference between kernel configs after make config was executed to see if anything was changed from last kernel config (Gentoo)

Alternatively, the kernel provides a script to cleanly compare two config files even if the options have moved in the file itself: /usr/src/linux/scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config
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diff <(sort .config) <(sort .config.old) | awk '/^>.*(=|Linux)/ { $1=""; print }'

wuseman1 · 2022-01-24 16:57:35 566
Quickly add a new user to all groups the default user is in

an alternative to this one with only 2 processes https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/25844/quickly-add-a-new-user-to-all-groups-the-default-user-is-in
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awk -F: '/^.+user1/{print $1}' /etc/group | xargs -n1 sudo adduser user2

ichbins · 2022-03-18 11:32:47 394
MySQL: Filter out specific tables from an existing mysqldump file with awk

This command works only if the line "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" exists for all tables in the mysqldump file. It acts like a state machine.
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cat db_dump.sql | awk '/DROP TABLE IF EXISTS/ { skip = $5 ~ /table1|table2/ } !skip { print $0 }' > db_dump_filtered.sql

stf42 · 2022-10-30 16:58:57 801
Extract raw URLs from a file
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egrep -ie "<*HREF=(.*?)>" index.html | awk -F\" '{print $2}' | grep ://

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 17:51:14 22
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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kill -HUP `ps -A -ostat,ppid,pid,cmd | grep -e '^[Zz]' | awk '{print $2}'`

6peng · 2009-02-06 02:42:14 15
SVN Add Recursively

This adds all new files to SVN recursively. It doesn't work for files that have spaces in their name, but why would you create a file with a space in its name in the first place?
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svn status | grep "^\?" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add

unixfu73000 · 2009-03-12 15:06:12 8
List nearbies
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/usr/sbin/arp -i eth0 | awk '{print $3}' | sed 1d

prayer · 2009-03-24 18:53:26 8

retrieve GMT time from websites ( generally accruate )

w3m is a commanline web browser, full of options, I used -dump_head for less unnecessary page download. With awk, I can retrieve dynamic changes in webpages in this very econnomical fashion Show Sample Output

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w3m -dump_head www.fiat.com | awk '/Date+/{print $6, $7}'

m33600 · 2009-06-08 00:06:01 7

Sort a character string

using awk missed the last char thanks @Josay Show Sample Output
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```
aeeelmoprsst
```
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echo sortmeplease | awk '{l=split($1,a,"");asort(a);while(x<=l){printf "%s",a[x];x++ }print "";}'

foob4r · 2009-09-03 10:22:39 4
Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

needs no GNU tools, as far as I see it
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find . -exec grep foobar /dev/null {} \; | awk -F: '{print $1}' | xargs vi

verboEse · 2009-09-03 16:02:18 3
Make a statistic about the lines of code

Have wc work on each file then add up the total with awk; get a 43% speed increase on RHEL over using "-exec cat|wc -l" and a 67% increase on my Ubuntu laptop (this is with 10MB of data in 767 files).
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find . -type f -name '*.c' -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

arcege · 2009-09-04 15:51:30 6
Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details. Has anyone an idea why the uniq doesn't work propperly here (see sample output)? Show Sample Output
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```
java          
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
```
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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort

ktoso · 2009-09-19 13:54:36 7
Email if you disk is over 90%

Email if you disk is over 90% - www.fir3net.com
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HDD=$(df | awk ' NR>3 (S=$5) (M=$6) { if (S>90) print "Your Systems "M" is """S" Full" } ') ; [[ $HDD ]] && echo "$HDD" | mail -s "Hard-Drives Full" TO@EMAIL.com -- -f FROM@EMAIL.com >/dev/null

felix001 · 2009-10-16 06:52:36 5
Show current folder permission from /, useful for debugging ssh key permission

Handled all within awk. Takes the value from $PWD and constructs directory structures and runs commands against them. The gsub() call is not necessary, but added for better visibility. If a variable DIR is given on the awk command-line, then that directory is used instead: awk -vDIR=$HOME/.ssh 'BEGIN{dir=DIR?...}' Show Sample Output
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```
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2009-10-21 23:30 /
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-20 13:33 /home
drwxr-xr-x 54 luser luser 4096 2009-10-22 09:48 /home/luser
```
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awk 'BEGIN{dir=DIR?DIR:ENVIRON["PWD"];l=split(dir,parts,"/");last="";for(i=1;i<l+1;i++){d=last"/"parts[i];gsub("//","/",d);system("ls -ld \""d"\"");last=d}}'

arcege · 2009-10-22 16:28:07 5
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Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

for all who don't have the watch command

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list block devices

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

list files in 'hitlar' mode

Was playing with the shell. It struck to me, just by rearranging the parameters, i was able to remember what they did and in a cool way. Enter the 'hitlar' mode. bash-3.2$ ls -hitlar Shows all items with inodes, in list view, human readable size, sorted by modification time in reverse, bash-3.2$ ls -Fhitlar Shows the same with classification info. Add the hitlar mode alias to your .bashrc. bash-3.2$ echo "alias hitlar='ls -Fhitlar'" >> ~/.bashrc bash-3.2$ hitlar bash-3.2$ hitlar filename

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Remove empty directories

You can also use, $ find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null

find string into one pdf file

find all file larger than 500M

Greater than 500M and sorted by size.

watch process stack, sampled at 1s intervals

This command repeatedly gets the specified process' stack using pstack (which is an insanely clever and tiny wrapper for gdb) and displays it fullscreen. Since it updates every second, you rapidly get an idea of where your program is stuck or spending time. The 'tac' is used to make the output grow down, which makes it less jumpy. If the output is too big for your screen, you can always leave the 'tac' off to see the inner calls. (Or, better yet--get a bigger screen.) Caveats: Won't work with stripped binaries and probably not well with threads, but you don't want to strip your binaries or use threads anyway.

Merge tarballs

Requires the GNU tar ignore zeros option. http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Blocking.html

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