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Commands using cut

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IFS=$'\n' && for f in `find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;`; do echo $f | sed -r 's/^[^ ]+/Checking:/'; echo $f | cut -f1 -d' ' | netcat hash.cymru.com 43 ; done

2011-10-15 03:38:47

User: Neo23x0

Functions: cut echo md5sum sed

Tags: netcat virus check md5 malware online

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Find Malware in the current and sub directories by MD5 hashes

Command makes use of the Malware Hash Registry (http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/MHR/).

It parses the current directory and subdirectories and calculates the md5 hash of the files, then prints the name and sends the hash to the MHR for a lookup in their database.

The 3rd value in the result is the detection percentage across a mix of AV packages.

wget -qO - --post-data "data[Row][cripted]=1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1" http://md5-decrypter.com/ | grep -A1 "Decrypted text" | tail -n1 | cut -d '"' -f3 | sed 's/>//g; s/<\/b//g'

2011-10-13 03:48:54

User: samhagin

Functions: cut grep sed tail wget

Tags: md5

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Decrypt MD5

Decrypt MD5 , replace 1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1 with the MD5 string you want to decrypt

wget -qO - --post-data "data[Row][clear]=text" http://md5-encryption.com | grep -A1 "Md5 encrypted state" | tail -n1 | cut -d '"' -f3 | sed 's/>//g; s/<\/b//g'

2011-10-13 03:44:48

User: samhagin

Functions: cut grep sed tail wget

Tags: md5

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Encrypt text to md5

Encrypt any text to MD5 , replace text with the string you want to convert to MD5

find . -exec `alias foo | cut -d"'" -f2` {} \;

2011-10-05 08:41:31

User: ztank1013

Functions: cut find

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Trick find -exec option to execute alias

An alias cannot be executed as command in a find -exec line. This form will trick the command line and let you do the job.

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cut -c -N

2011-09-26 04:46:35

User: ken_fallon

Functions: cut

Tags: cut

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Cut the first 'N' characters of a line

Saves one character, the original is probably clearer

pacman -Q | grep -v pacman | cut -d' ' -f1 > packages.txt && pacman -Sy `cat packages.txt` --noconfirm

2011-09-25 13:07:24

User: martinmartiini

Functions: cut grep

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pacman install list of packages

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cut -c 1-N

2011-09-24 14:00:59

User: dudko

Functions: cut

Tags: cut

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Cut the first 'N' characters of a line

You can also cut charactes starting from X to N.

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echo "command lines" | rev | cut -c 2- | rev

2011-09-21 11:27:52

User: ztank1013

Functions: cut echo ping rev

Tags: sed awk cut rev

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Remove the last string character using rev and cut

In case sed and awk are not available you may use this to remove the last character from a string with "rev" and "cut".

wget -O - -q http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1| cut -c2-

2011-09-17 13:42:01

User: ztank1013

Functions: cut wget

Tags: wget ip address

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Check your ip public using dyndns.org

This is just a "cut" addicted variant of the previous unixmonkey24730 command...

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fn=$(find . -type f -printf "%T@\t%p\n"|sort -n|tail -1|cut -f2); echo $(date -r "$fn") "$fn"

2011-09-13 14:26:20

User: tzot

Functions: cut date echo find sort tail

Tags: find stat mtime

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Hunt for the newest file.

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svn st -q | cut -c 2- | tr -d ' ' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

2011-08-31 10:30:29

User: titus

Functions: cut tar tr xargs

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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

This works more reliable for me ("cut -c 8-" had one more space, so it did not work)

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function expand_url() { curl -sI $1 | grep Location: | cut -d " " -f 2 | tr -d "\n" | pbcopy }

2011-08-21 05:30:09

User: gt

Functions: cut grep tr

Tags: bash grep curl cut osx tr pbcopy

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OSX Expand URL and Copy to Clipboard

Expand a URL, aka do a head request, and get the URL. Copy this value to clipboard.

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allVideos() { find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -iNf - | grep ": video/" | cut -d: -f1; }

2011-08-19 11:58:59

User: totti

Functions: cut file find grep xargs

Tags: video find grep mime

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Find all videos under current directory using MIME a.k.a not using extension

Videos are found using their MIME type. Thus no need to for an extension for the video file.

This is a efficent version of "jnash" cmd (4086). Thanks for jnash. This cmd will only show video files while his cmd show files having "video" anywhere in path.

httpd -V | grep -i SERVER_CONFIG_FILE | cut -f2 -d'"' | xargs grep -i '^DocumentRoot' | cut -f2 -d'"'

2011-08-13 20:45:05

User: dcpesses

Functions: cut grep

Tags: xargs grep cut apache httpd

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How To Get the Apache Document Root

Grabs the Apache config file (yielded from httpd) and returns the path specified as DocumentRoot.

git branch | cut -c3- | grep -v "^master$" | while read line; do git branch -d $line; done | grep 'Deleted branch' | awk '{print $3;}' | while read line; do git push <target_remote> :$line; done

2011-08-13 16:58:34

User: gocoogs

Functions: awk cut grep read

Tags: git remote maintenance branch repository

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delete local *and* remote git repos if merged into local master

attempts to delete all local branches. git will fail on any branches not fully merged into local master, so don't worry about losing work. git will return the names of any successfully deleted branches. Find those in the output with grep, then push null repositories to the corresponding names to your target remote.

assumes:

- your local and remote branches are identically named, and there's nothing extra in the remote branch that you still want

- EDIT: you want to keep your local master branch

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cut -d, -f5

2011-08-12 01:42:30

User: cromadon

Functions: cut

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extract column from csv file

extracts the 5th column using the delimiter ','

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mplayer $(ls -l /proc/$(pgrep -f flash)/fd/* |grep Flash | cut -d" " -f8)

2011-08-06 08:21:57

User: RazZziel

Functions: cut grep ls

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mplayer all flash videos being streamed in Chromium

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vim -p `grep -r PATTERN TARGET_DIR | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | xargs echo -n`

2011-08-05 16:34:31

User: kovagoz

Functions: cut echo sort uniq vim xargs

Tags: vim grep

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Grep across a directory and open matching files in vim (one tab per file)

vim 7 required

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netstat -an |grep ":80" |awk '{print $5}' | sed s/::ffff://g | cut -d: -f1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n | tail -1000 | grep -v "0.0.0.0"

2011-07-28 09:36:08

User: zeros

Functions: awk cut grep netstat sed sort tail uniq

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Find all IP connected to my host through TCP connection and count it

Count and Find all IP connected to my host through TCP connection.

netstat -nut | awk '$NF=="ESTABLISHED" {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u

2011-07-27 07:24:10

User: bitbasher

Functions: awk cut netstat sort

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All IP connected to my host

find all computer connected to my host through TCP connection

MAC=$((date +'%Y%m%d%H%M%S%N'; cat /proc/interrupts) | md5sum | sed -r 's/(..)/\1:/g' | cut -d: -f 1-6)

2011-07-14 13:11:50

User: jazznjam

Functions: cat cut date md5sum sed

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Generat a Random MAC address

I liked vaporub's suggestion, here a little simplification of the sed command.

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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

2011-07-04 20:23:21

User: letterj

Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq

Tags: netstat

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netstat with group by (ip adress)

netstat has two lines of headers:

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

Added a filter in the awk command to remove them

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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

2011-07-01 11:17:38

User: Koobiac

Functions: awk cut netstat sort uniq

Tags: netstat

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netstat with group by (ip adress)

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lynx -useragent=Opera -dump 'http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=4&__a=1' |gawk -F'\"t\":\"' -v RS='\",' 'RT{print $NF}' |grep -v '\"n\":\"' |cut -d, -f2

2011-06-24 03:54:14

User: cancerianeyes

Functions: cut gawk grep

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view user friends

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alias cd1='cd $( ls -lt | grep ^d | head -1 | cut -b 51- )'

2011-06-22 11:45:15

User: soulonfire

Functions: alias cut grep head ls

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cd into the latest directory

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