Commands using cat

The value for the sort command's -k argument is the column in the CSV file to sort on. In this example, it sorts on the second column. You must use some form of the sort command in order for uniq to work properly.

from http://matt.ucc.asn.au/ssh-xfer/

"ssh-xfer is a hackish but handy way of transferring files from remote hosts to your local computer. Firstly, you need to run a slightly modified SSH authentication agent program on your local computer. Patches are available for both OpenSSH and PuTTY, see below. If you haven't used a SSH agent program before, this article seems to be reasonable, or you can look at the OpenSSH/PuTTY docs.

You don't need any modifications to your ssh client or server programs - only the modified SSH authentication agent, and the extra ssh-xfer program."

creates a new tab for each of N servers in listofservers.txt and ssh's to said servers

then, try the "send to all sessions" feature of konsole to do the same work on all servers at the same time. BIG time saver, but be careful!

Enter your ssh public key in the remote end for future key-based authentication. Just type your password one last time. The next time you should be able to login with the public key. If you don't have a key, generate one with ssh-keygen.

Requires Bourne-compatible shell in the remote end.

This command will generate white noise through your speakers (assuming you have sound enabled). It's good for staying focused, privacy, coping with tinnitus, etc. I use it to test that the sound works.

Have you ever had to scp a file to your work machine in order to copy its contents to a mail? xclip can help you with that. It copies its stdin to the X11 buffer, so all you have to do is middle-click to paste the content of that looong file :)

Sends the microphone input from PC1 to the speakers of PC2. Do the same in reverse to have an actual conversation ;) ... maybe with another port tough

how to get full cpu info of your (linux) box

check your load with top... Start more of these jobs to get an multi-core cpu busy...

Should run on any system with ssh installed.

Original author unknown (I believe off of a wifi hacking forum).

Used in conjuction with ifconfig and cron.. can be handy (especially spoofing AP's)

In July 2008, there was an uproar over Foxconn motherboards feeding Linux installs incorrect ACPI information (http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249).

Foxconn has gladly corrected their mistake, but make sure it's not happening on your motherboard!

After running the command, just view the 'dsdt.dsl' in any editor you like.

tells you the number of lines in said file, and then tail the last 100 lines ( or how many are messed up) then u take the total amount of lines and then subract the 100 or so lines u DONT WANT, then do a head -n $new_number and then redirect it to new file.db

Show message in file "welcome" to all logged in terminal users.

Great for little scripts that dig up obscure info that you are going to have to paste into another app anyway.

with this command you can empty file

Just run the command, type your password, and that's the last time you need to enter your password for that server.

This assumes that the server supports publickey authentication. Also, the permissions on your home dir are 755, and the permissions on your .ssh dir are 700 (local and remote).

This removes the type prefix used in Hungarian notation (v. bad) for PHP variables. Eg. variables of the form $intDays, $fltPrice, $arrItems, $objLogger convert to $days, $price, $Items, $logger.

`split -b 1k file` splits files into 1k chunks. Rejoin them with `cat x* > file`.

Good to find out about hostile processes

This command is useful for separating a text file where all the words are in one line. Any group of spaces will be replaced with a single newline. Instead of one long line of tokens. You'll have a long list of tokens. One token per line.

This is priceless for discovering otherwise invisible characters in files. Like, for example, that stray Control-M at the end of the initial hash bang line in your script, which causes it to generate a mysterious error even though it looks fine.

('od' is the last word, of course, but for many purposes it's much harder to read.)