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Commands using awk

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ps -ef | awk '/process-name/ && !/awk/ {print}'
2009-08-19 11:22:09
User: dopeman
Functions: awk ps
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Search for an active process without catching the search-process

This does the same thing as many of the 'grep' based alternatives but allows a more finite control over the output. For example if you only wanted the process ID you could change the command:

ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'

If you wanted to kill the returned PID's:

ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}' | xargs -i kill {}
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mysql -u<user> -p<password> -s -e 'DESCRIBE <table>' <database> | tail -n +1 | awk '{ printf($1",")}' | head -c -1
2009-08-17 12:54:44
User: Cowboy
Functions: awk head tail
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Get table column names from an MySQL-database in comma-seperated form
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awk < file.name '{ system("resolveip -s " $1) }'
2009-08-17 08:09:39
User: alanwilliamson
Functions: awk
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Resolve a list of domain names to IP addresses

Given a file of FQDN, this simple command resolves the IP addresses of those Useful for log files or anything else that outputs domain names.

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FFPID=$(pidof firefox-bin) && lsof -p $FFPID | awk '{ if($7>0) print ($7/1024/1024)" MB -- "$9; }' | grep ".mozilla" | sort -rn
2009-08-16 08:58:22
User: josue
Functions: awk grep pidof sort
Tags: sort awk grep firefox lsof
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Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.

Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size (in MB). You can see all files opened by just replacing grep to "/". Useful if you'd like to debug and check which extensions or files are taking too much memory resources in Firefox.

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egrep "^lease" /var/lib/dhcp/db/dhcpd.leases |awk '{ print $2 }'
2009-08-14 07:31:00
User: peshay
Functions: awk egrep
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get IPs with a DHCP lease

You can use that to create a excludefile for nmap, to find hosts, with no DHCP lease in your DHCP range.

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echo $PATH|awk -F: ' { for (i=1; i <= NF; i++) print $i }'
2009-08-12 07:56:56
User: nitins
Functions: awk echo
Tags: bash awk
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List path of binaries
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awk -F ',' '{ x = x + $4 } END { print x }' test.csv
2009-08-11 12:10:33
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: awk
Tags: awk column CSV sum
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Sum columns from CSV column $COL
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find . -name \*.pdf -exec pdfinfo {} \; | grep Pages | sed -e "s/Pages:\s*//g" | awk '{ sum += $1;} END { print sum; }'
2009-08-10 16:28:24
User: unixmonkey3987
Functions: awk find grep sed sum
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Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively
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ls -1 *.jpg | while read fn; do export pa=`exiv2 "$fn" | grep timestamp | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 ".jpg"}' | tr ":" "-"`; mv "$fn" "$pa"; done
2009-08-10 00:52:22
User: axanc
Functions: awk export grep ls mv read tr
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Picture Renamer

Renames all the jpg files as their timestamps with ".jpg" extension.

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awk /./ filename
2009-08-09 02:04:46
User: point_to_null
Functions: awk
Tags: awk
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Remove newlines from output

?Cat and grep? You can use only grep ("grep \. filename"). Better option is awk.

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nslookup commandlinefu.com|sed 's/[^0-9. ]//g'|tail -n 1|awk -F " " '{print $2}'
2009-08-07 17:32:55
User: thundernode
Functions: awk nslookup sed tail
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Get the ip registered to a domain on OpenWRT

I use this in a script on my openwrt router to check if my DynDNS needs to be updated, saves your account from being banned for blank updates.

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ifconfig | grep "0xffffffff" | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs -n 1 ifconfig em0 delete
2009-08-04 05:18:36
User: vwal
Functions: awk grep ifconfig xargs
Tags: Network bsd FreeBSD aliases rc.conf
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Delete all aliases for a network interface on a (Free)BSD system

The example command deletes all aliases for network interface 'em0' assuming that the aliases have netmask of 255.255.255.255 and the master IP has some other netmask (such as 255.255.255.0). See here -> http://my.galagzee.com/2009/07/22/deleting-all-network-interface-aliases/ for more on the rationale of this command.

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curl -s http://isc.sans.org/sources.html|grep "ipinfo.html"|awk -F"ip=" {'print $2'}|awk -F"\"" {'print $1'}|xargs -n1 sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -j DROP -d > 2&>1
2009-08-03 20:18:41
User: din7
Functions: awk grep iptables sudo xargs
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Retrieve top ip threats from http://isc.sans.org/sources.html and add them into iptables output chain.

Retrieve top ip threats from http://isc.sans.org/sources.html and add them into iptables output chain.

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du -aB1m|awk '$1 >= 100'
2009-08-01 20:16:33
User: karatatar
Functions: awk du
Tags: Filesystem disk usage size
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Which files/dirs waste my disk space

Useful for analyzing disk usage. If you prefer GUI try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight or http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/

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netstat -ant | grep :80 | grep ESTABLISHED | awk '{print $5}' | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2009-07-31 18:28:16
User: garchacesaug
Functions: awk grep netstat sort uniq
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Show in a web server, running in the port 80, how many ESTABLISHED connections by ip it has.

The command could show you all conecctions if you skip "grep ESTABLISHED"

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ifconfig | awk '/ddr:[0-9]/ {sub(/addr:/, ""); print $2}'
2009-07-31 09:30:54
User: danny_b85
Functions: awk ifconfig
Tags: Linux ifconfig
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Get all IPs via ifconfig

The initial version of this command also outputted extra empty lines, so it went like this:

192.168.166.48

127.0.0.1

This happened on Ubuntu, i haven't tested on anything else.

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ls foo*.jpg | awk '{print("mv "$1" "$1)}' | sed 's/foo/bar/2' | /bin/sh
2009-07-30 13:54:12
User: opexxx
Functions: awk ls sed
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Batch File Rename with awk and sed
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svn ls -R | egrep -v -e "\/$" | xargs svn blame | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
2009-07-29 02:10:45
User: askedrelic
Functions: awk egrep ls sort uniq xargs
Tags: svn count
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Prints total line count contribution per user for an SVN repository

I'm working in a group project currently and annoyed at the lack of output by my teammates. Wanting hard metrics of how awesome I am and how awesome they aren't, I wrote this command up.

It will print a full repository listing of all files, remove the directories which confuse blame, run svn blame on each individual file, and tally the resulting line counts. It seems quite slow, depending on your repository location, because blame must hit the server for each individual file. You can remove the -R on the first part to print out the tallies for just the current directory.

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ifconfig | awk -F':| +' '/ddr:/{print $4}'
2009-07-25 22:51:08
User: 0x89
Functions: awk ifconfig
Tags: Linux ifconfig
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Get all IPs via ifconfig

and, a lot uglier, with sed:

ifconfig | sed -n '/inet addr:/s/[^:]\+:\(\S\+\).*/\1/p'

Edit:

Wanted to be shorter than the perl version. Still think that the perl version is the best..

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cat /var/log/secure.log | awk '{print substr($0,0,12)}' | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{printf("\n%s ",$0) ; for (i = 0; i<$1 ; i++) {printf("*")};}'
2009-07-24 07:20:06
User: knassery
Functions: awk cat sort uniq
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Show me a histogram of the busiest minutes in a log file:

Busiest seconds:

cat /var/log/secure.log | awk '{print substr($0,0,15)}' | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{printf("\n%s ",$0) ; for (i = 0; i<$1 ; i++) {printf("*")};}'
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awk '{print NR": "$0; for(i=1;i<=NF;++i)print "\t"i": "$i}'
2009-07-23 06:25:31
User: recursiverse
Functions: awk
Tags: awk
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Analyze awk fields

Breaks down and numbers each line and it's fields. This is really useful when you are going to parse something with awk but aren't sure exactly where to start.

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$ awk '{ split(sprintf("%1.3e", $1), b, "e"); p = substr("yzafpnum_kMGTPEZY", (b[2]/3)+9, 1); o = sprintf("%f", b[1] * (10 ^ (b[2]%3))); gsub(/\./, p, o); print substr( gensub(/_[[:digit:]]*/, "", "g", o), 1, 4); }' < test.dat
2009-07-22 16:54:14
User: mungewell
Functions: awk
Tags: awk
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Convert numbers to SI notation

converts any number on the 'stdin' to SI notation. My version limits to 3 digits of precious (working with 10% resistors).

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curl -u 'username' https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all | sed 's/^.*href=//g;s/>.*$//g;s/"//g' | awk '{print $1}' | grep 'http'
2009-07-22 07:32:59
User: bubo
Functions: awk grep sed
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get delicious bookmarks on your shell (text version :-))

a variation of avi4now's command - thanks by the way!

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/sbin/ifconfig | awk -F'[ :]+' '/inet addr/{print $4}'
2009-07-21 14:18:17
User: inof
Functions: awk
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Read just the IP address of a device

That one works on Linux. On BSD and Solaris, the ifconfig output is much easier to parse:

/sbin/ifconfig -a | awk '/inet/{print $2}'
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cat `whereis mysqlbug | awk '{print $2}'` | grep 'CONFIGURE_LINE='
2009-07-21 07:44:27
User: numbata
Functions: awk cat grep
Tags: mysql
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Determine configure options used for MySQL binary builds
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