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Automatd ssh public key setup without ssh-copy-id

Some servers don't have ssh-copy-id, this works in those cases. It will ask for the destination server, this can be IP, hostname, or user@hostname if different from current user. Ssh keygen will let you know if a pubkey already exists on your system and you can opt to not overwrite it.
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echo 'Host or User@Host?:'; read newserver && ssh-keygen -N "" -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa ; ssh $newserver cat <~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ">>" ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ; ssh $newserver

alf · 2010-05-07 06:24:53 4
count how many cat processes are running
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ps -a |grep cat |wc -l

schmiddim · 2010-09-22 23:57:19 3
List your MACs address
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cat `ls -r /sys/class/net/*/address` | sort -u

jaimerosario · 2011-06-02 23:16:37 3
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

The first grep rejects capitalised words since the dict has proper nouns in it that you mightn't want to use. The second grep rejects words with ending in apostrophe s, and the third forces the words to be at least 15 characters long. Show Sample Output
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counterproductive unreasonableness multimillionaires extemporaneously
```
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cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -P ^[a-z].* | grep -v "'s$" | grep -Pv ^.\{1,15\}$ | shuf -n4 | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/$/\n/'

bugmenot · 2011-08-15 01:03:48 6
Cat files in a directory; for loop command

The better alternative to #9756. I don't think I'd ever use the original command, but this one was so bad I had to post this. Sorry. 1. $(ls) is dumb, and will give errors if you have an alias like "ls -Fs" 2. clear is better and more portable than reset state. 3. if you're interested in differences, then use diff, not cat.
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for f in *; do clear; cat $f; sleep .3; done

toddkaufmann · 2011-11-25 17:10:47 6
Cat files in a directory; for loop command

Original submitted version would break if any filenames had whitespaces in them. The command is a Bad Idea anyhow, because you will end up `cat`ing a binary or something else specacularly bad.
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for file in ./*; do cat "$file"; sleep 0.3

DopeGhoti · 2011-11-28 20:10:57 3
View external IP
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wget -q ip.nu && cat index.html

VictorBjelkholm · 2012-03-23 03:14:37 3
Copy paste contents quickly and save as a file

Write script or commands in notepad/Editplus/MS word etc, copy the contents, type the above command and click on enter now, paste by right click-ing the mouse. Entire contents in the clip-board gets pasted now again click on Enter to go to new line/next line. Press Ctrl+D to close/save the file. Not always required to vi to create a new file.
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cat > file_name

michaelrozar17 · 2012-03-27 11:38:09 4
download a list of urls
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cat urls.txt | xargs -n1 curl -O --max-time 10 --retry 3 --retry-delay 1

kev · 2012-05-14 06:38:06 4
How to execute and encrypted and password-protected bash script?

echo "ls" > script.bash; This is my script, a simple 'ls'. gpg -c script.bash; Here I encrypt and passord-protect my script. This creates file script.bash.gpg. cat script.bash.gpg | gpg -d --no-mdc-warning | bash Here I open file script.bash.gpg, decrypt it and execute it.
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echo "ls" > script.bash; gpg -c script.bash; cat script.bash.gpg | gpg -d --no-mdc-warning | bash

betsubetsu · 2013-03-10 09:34:12 9
List all password hashes
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cat /etc/shadow

dsetton · 2014-02-01 19:48:05 6
having root on server, add user's public key to his keys (no password required)
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cat user_public_key.pub | ssh root@<host> "cat | su -c 'mkdir -m 700 -p ~/.ssh && cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys' <user>"

noisy · 2016-05-09 08:48:40 14
small CPU benchmark with PI, bc and time.

Broken in two parts, first get the number of cores with cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep proc|wc -l and create a integer sequence with that number (xargs seq), then have GNU parallel loop that many times over the given command. Cheers! Show Sample Output
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```
...
66983895228684783123552658213144957685726243344189303968642624341077\
3226978028073189154411010446823252716201052652272111660396

real	0m31,847s
user	0m59,085s
sys	0m0,151s
```
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time cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep proc|wc -l|xargs seq|parallel -N 0 echo "scale=4000\; a$1$\*4" '|' bc -l

kostis · 2018-12-06 05:15:24 674
Generrate Cryptographically Secure RANDOM PASSWORD

Change :alnum: to :graph: for all printable characters Show Sample Output
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```
FH170AB1DXb4dHlX
```
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cat /dev/urandom |tr -c -d '[:alnum:]'|head -c 16;echo

AndrewM · 2019-06-17 17:51:04 36
Broadcast message to all logged in terminal users.

Show message in file "welcome" to all logged in terminal users. Show Sample Output
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```
Broadcast Message from william@linux-wsue                                      
        (/dev/pts/0) at 12:05 ...                                              
                                                                               
Welcome to Command-line-fu
```
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cat welcome | wall

Williebee · 2009-02-14 18:12:50 12
Eliminate duplicate lines on a file
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cat file1.txt | uniq > file2.txt

olafrv · 2009-03-01 05:10:10 11
Reset scrambled screen

^V means CTRL-V [ENTER] means ENTER key
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cat [ENTER]^V^O[ENTER]^D

minliu2k · 2009-04-17 13:16:56 13
View SuSE version

Displays SuSE release information Show Sample Output
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```
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64)
VERSION = 9
PATCHLEVEL = 4
```
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cat /etc/SuSE-release

sharfah · 2009-05-20 17:28:12 20
CPU model
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cat /proc/cpuinfo

theIndianMaiden · 2009-08-19 11:09:17 13
Get a text on a position on the file and store in a variable with a specific separator
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TIMEUNIT=$( cat a | grep -n "timescale" | awk -F ":" '{ print $1 } ' )

conradojr · 2009-10-27 18:01:26 3
Get your external IP address

bash neto..
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exec 3<>/dev/tcp/whatismyip.com/80; echo -e "GET /automation/n09230945.asp HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: whatismyip.com\r\n" >&3; a=( $(cat <&3) ); echo ${a[${#a[*]}-1]};

yaccovs · 2009-11-03 21:57:00 6
Pipe music over netcat with mpg123

I think I picked this one up from Hak5 (yeah I know.. kinda lame)
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#Client# cat "The Meters - People Say.mp3" | nc -vv 192.168.1.100 8080; #Server# nc -vv -l -s 192.168.1.100 -p 8080 | mpg123 -v -

Abiden · 2010-01-30 08:50:17 7
Check whether laptop is running on battery or cable

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```
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          charged
present rate:            0 mA
remaining capacity:      2000 mAh
present voltage:         16566 mV
```
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cat /proc/acpi/battery/*/state

adrruiz · 2010-06-13 23:00:54 4
Replace tabs with spaces in file

Replaces tabs in output with spaces. Uses perl since sed seems to work differently across platforms.
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cat file_with_tabs.txt | perl -pe 's/\t/ /g'

nikc · 2010-07-11 13:01:22 37
close stderr
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cat aaaaaa 2>&-

totti · 2011-09-14 20:55:26 3
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Rename files in batch

Use AWS CLI and JQ to get a list of instances sorted by launch time

Use the AWS CLI tools to generate a list instances, then pipe them to JQ to show only their launch time and instance id. Finally use sort to bring them out in runtime order. Find all those instances you launched months ago and have forgotten about.

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Extract tar.gz file with original permission

-x, --extract, --get extract files from an archive -p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions extract information about file permissions (default for superuser) -f, --file=ARCHIVE use archive file or device ARCHIVE -v, --verbose verbosely list files processed

Watch your freebox flux, through a other internet connection (for French users)

You can watch channels of your freebox, everywhere. With " vlc http://your-ip:12345 " on the client and ncurses vlc interface on the host. et voila

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Check if you partition are aligned

To get most of you HDD/SSD driver you need to make sure you partition are aligned, if not the speed penalty can be up to 50% slower! this simple one liner will check to see if each partition start sector is divided by 512 you need to change sda with your driver if you find the one of your partitions is not aligned use gparted to move the start sector of the partition to be divided of 512

List out classes in of all htmls in directory

Lists out all classes used in all *.html files in the currect directory. usefull for checking if you have left out any style definitions, or accidentally given a different name than you intended. ( I have an ugly habit of accidentally substituting camelCase instead of using under_scores: i would name soemthing counterBox instead of counter_box) WARNING: assumes you give classnames in between double quotes, and that you apply only one class per element.

posts an xml file to a webservice with curl

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