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Commands using cd

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alias sshdo='ssh -q -t root@localhost -- cd $PWD \&\& sudo'
2010-10-20 22:33:22
User: darkfader
Functions: alias cd
Tags: sudo su ssh-agent
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sshdo, an alternative to sudo

Run program as root by SSH key forwarding instead of sudoers.

Put this alias line in .bashrc or wherever you like. Alias arguments might need extra escaping.

You might wonder about security. But you'd block out root login as much as possible of course. In sshd_config you put this:

PermitRootLogin no

Match Address 127.0.0.1

  PermitRootLogin without-password

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svn co http://simile.mit.edu/repository/crowbar/trunk&& cd ./trunk/xulapp/ xulrunner --install-app && Xvfb :1 && DISPLAY=:1 xulrunner application.ini 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null && wget -O- "127.0.0.1:10000/&url=http://www.facebook.com"
2010-10-16 05:12:11
User: argv
Functions: cd wget
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Gecko-rendered javascript without a GUI

some other options:

&delay=1000

&mode=links

much more with piggybank as scraper

works well with your favourite curses or non-curses http clients

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to() { eval dir=\$$1; cd "$dir"; }
2010-10-15 13:40:35
User: hfs
Functions: cd eval
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Quick directory bookmarks

Set a bookmark as normal shell variable

p=/cumbersome/path/to/project

To go there

to p

This saves one "$" and is faster to type ;-) The variable is still useful as such:

vim $p/<TAB>

will expand the variable (at least in bash) and show a list of files to edit.

If setting the bookmarks is too much typing you could add another function

bm() { eval $1=$(pwd); }

then bookmark the current directory with

bm p
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cd ~/Desktop && for FILES in $(ls); do mv $FILES .${FILES}; done
2010-10-05 15:16:30
User: kjell81d
Functions: cd mv
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Hide files and folders on GNOME Desktop.
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cd $(find -inum inode_no)
2010-09-25 06:04:32
User: emacs
Functions: cd find
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Change directory by inode

First use ls -i to list files and directories with their inode number

Then if you want to change to one of the directories, replace inode_no with its inode then execute the command

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cd !$
2010-08-26 08:51:01
User: YCFlame
Functions: cd
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Place the argument of the most recent command on the shell

using "!$" will save another ton of typing than 'ALT+.' or ' .'

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(cd /bin; set -- *; x=$((1+($RANDOM % $#))); man ${!x})
2010-08-20 17:19:56
User: quintic
Functions: cd man set
Tags: man set
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Display a random man page
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tar -cf - ./file | lzma -c | ssh user@sshserver $(cd /tmp; tar --lzma -xf -)
2010-08-13 21:52:17
User: glaudiston
Functions: cd ssh tar
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send a file or directory via ssh compressing with lzma for low trafic
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cd
2010-08-06 05:33:19
User: wdan02
Functions: cd
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cd
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bsro3 () { P=`pwd`; S=$1; R=$2; ls *.odt > /dev/null 2>&1; if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then exit 1; fi; for i in *.odt; do mkdir ${P}/T; cd ${P}/T; unzip -qq "$P"/"$i"; sed -i "s/$S/$R/" ${P}/T/content.xml; zip -qq -r "$P"/"$i" *; cd ${P}; rm -rf ${P}/T; done; }
2010-06-30 04:43:54
User: danpos
Functions: cd exit ls mkdir rm sed
Tags: bash OpenOffice.org edit batch Writer
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Batch edition of all OpenOffice.org Writer files in the current directory (body text)

This function does a batch edition of all OOO3 Writer files in current directory. It uses sed to search a FOO pattern into body text of each file, then replace it to foo pattern (only the first match) . I did it because I've some hundreds of OOO3 Writer files where I did need to edit one word in each ones and open up each file in OOO3 gui wasn't an option. Usage: bsro3 FOO foo

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for d in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '[^.]*'); do cd "$d"; svn up; cd ..; done
2010-05-28 10:09:19
User: udog
Functions: cd find
Tags: bash subversion
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Update many subversion projects which reside in one directory

If you have a directory with many working copies of various subversion projects and you want to update them all at once, this one may be for you.

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cd /some/empty/folder/website_diffs/sitename && wget -N http://domain.com/ 2>&1 |grep -q "o newer" || printf "Sites web page appears to have updated.\n\nSuggest you check it out.\n\n"|mail -s "Sites page updated." david@email.com
2010-05-09 07:28:42
User: DaveQB
Functions: cd grep mail printf wget
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Email someone if a web page has been updated.

A cronjob command line to email someone when a webpages homepage is updated.

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find ~ -maxdepth 2 -name .git -print | while read repo; do cd $(dirname $repo); git pull; done
2010-04-27 08:51:52
User: l0b0
Functions: cd dirname find read
Tags: git
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git pull all repos
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cd() { if [ -z "$1" ]; then command cd; else if [ -f "$1" ]; then command cd $(dirname "$1"); else command cd "$1"; fi; fi; }
2010-04-23 19:17:43
User: xeor
Functions: cd command dirname
Tags: cd command
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Smart `cd`.. cd to the file directory if you try to cd to a file

This little function will smarten 'cd'. If you try to cd into a file (which I guess we all have done), it cd's into the directory of that file instead.

I had to use nesten if's, to get cd to still work with 'cd' (to get to $HOME), 'cd -' (to get to last directory), and 'cd foo\ bar'.

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cd /etc/init.d && sudo ./apache2 start
2010-04-17 16:01:18
User: nco
Functions: cd sudo
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apache , how to avoid bugs and start directly the server

This command is designed in order to avoid this error :

/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

* Reloading web server config apache2 httpd not running, trying to start

(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

no listening sockets available, shutting down

Unable to open logs

[fail]

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for host in *; do { if [ -d $host ]; then { cd ${host}; for share in *; do { if [ -d $share ]; then { cd $share; rsync -av --delete rsyncuser@$host::$share . 2>../$share.err 1>../$share.log; cd ..; }; fi; }; done; cd ..; }; fi; }; done;
2010-03-11 19:54:31
User: c3w
Functions: cd host rsync
Tags: rsync
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traverses directories of $host and $share to created a unified place for rsync backups

traverses e.g. "/data/myhost1.com/myrsyncshare"; logs stderr and stdout. useful with cron.

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export QQ=$(mktemp -d);(cd $QQ; curl -s -O http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/[0-2400:25];for i in $(perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if( /^(\w+\(\))/ )' *|sort -u);do grep -h -m1 -B1 $i *; done)|grep -v '^--' > clf.sh;rm -r $QQ
2010-01-30 19:47:42
User: bartonski
Functions: cd export grep mktemp perl sort
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grab all commandlinefu shell functions into a single file, suitable for sourcing.

Each shell function has its own summary line, as a comment. If there are multiple shell functions with the same name, the function with the highest number of votes is put into the file.

Note: added 'grep -v' to the end of the pipeline, to eliminate extraneous lines containing only '--'. Thanks to matthewbauer for pointing this out.

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dmd () { ( if [ "$1"x != "x" ]; then cd $1; fi; mkdir `date +%Y%m%d` ) }
2010-01-27 15:53:26
User: bartonski
Functions: cd mkdir
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Shell function to create a directory named with the current date, in the format YYYYMMDD.

Creates a directory named with the current date, in the format YYYYMMDD. If you give it a directory name as an argument, it will create the new directory inside the specified directory.

This is an alternative to command #1993.

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removedir(){ read -p "Delete the current directory $PWD ? " human;if [ "$human" = "yes" ]; then [ -z "${PWD##*/}" ] && { echo "$PWD not set" >&2;return 1;}; rm -Rf ../"${PWD##*/}"/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }
2010-01-20 08:01:21
User: oshazard
Functions: cd echo read rm
Tags: bash
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Remove current directory (REVISED)

Credit goes to "eightmillion"

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removedir () { echo "Deleting the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }
2010-01-17 11:34:38
User: oshazard
Functions: basename cd echo read rm sed
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Remove current directory

CHANGELOG

Version 1.1

removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }

BUG FIX:

Folders with spaces

Version 1.0

removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }

BUG FIX:

Hidden directories (.dotdirectory)

Version 0.9

rmdir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD. Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; }

Removes current directory with recursive and force flags plus basic human check. When prompted type yes

1. [user@host ~]$ ls

foo bar

2. [user@host ~]$ cd foo

3. [user@host foo]$ removedir

4. yes

5. rm -Rf foo/

6. [user@host ~]$

7. [user@host ~]$ ls

bar

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wtzc () { wget "$@"; foo=`echo "$@" | sed 's:.*/::'`; tar xzvf $foo; blah=`echo $foo | sed 's:,*/::'`; bar=`echo $blah | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/' -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/'`; cd $bar; ls; }
2010-01-17 11:25:47
User: oshazard
Functions: cd sed tar wget
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wget, tar xzvf, cd, ls

Combines a few repetitive tasks when compiling source code. Especially useful when a hypen in a file-name breaks tab completion.

1.) wget source.tar.gz

2.) tar xzvf source.tar.gz

3.) cd source

4.) ls

From there you can run ./configure, make and etc.

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mkdir dir; cd $_
2010-01-13 11:56:36
User: servermanaged
Functions: cd mkdir
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Create a directory and go inside it
_ expands to the last argument of the last command that was executed
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echo 'mkcd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$_"; }' >> ~/.bashrc
2010-01-13 09:37:56
User: phaidros
Functions: cd echo mkdir
Tags: bash cd mkdir bash tricks
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mkdir & cd into it as single command

combines mkdir and cd

added quotes around $_, thanx to flatcap!

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function ..(){ for ((j=${1:-1},i=0;i<j;i++));do builtin cd ..;done;}
2010-01-02 08:36:12
User: bhepple
Functions: cd
Tags: cd
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cd up a number of levels

Instead of typing "cd ../../.." you can type ".. 3". For extremely lazy typists, you can add this alias:

alias ...=".. 2" ....=".. 3"

- so now you can write just .... !!!

NB the .. function needs to be "source"d or included in your startup scripts, perhaps .bashrc.

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cd /usr/home && for i in *;do chsh -s bash $i;done
2009-12-31 18:48:53
User: casidiablo
Functions: bash cd chsh
Tags: bsd FreeBSD users chsh
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Chage default shell for all users [FreeBSD]

This command will set bash as the default shell for all users in a FreeBSD system.

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