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Bash function to see what the day ends in

A command to find out what the day ends in. Can be edited slightly to find out what "any" output ends in. NB: I haven't tested with weird and wonderful output. Show Sample Output
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```
y
```
0

date +%A | cut -c $(( $(date +%A | wc -c) - 1 ))

DaveQB · 2010-04-07 00:23:15 5
Get Unique Hostnames from Apache Config Files

Get a list of all the unique hostnames from the apache configuration files. Handy to see what sites are running on a server.
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cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/* | egrep 'ServerAlias|ServerName' | tr -s " " | sed 's/^[ ]//g' | uniq | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sed 's/www.//g' | sort | uniq

chronosMark · 2010-04-08 08:51:17 5
sorted list of dhcp allocations
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grep ^lease /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sort -t . -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -k 4,4n | uniq

niallh · 2010-04-16 09:52:32 6
AIX: Set reserve lock=no in EMC disks that have reserve_lock=yes

It will change the reserve_lock attribute to all AIX EMC disk attached.
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for i in $(lsdev -Cc disk | grep EMC | cut -f 1 -d " " ); do if lsattr -a reserve_lock -El $i | grep -q "reserve_lock yes"; then chdev -a reserve_lock=no -l $i; fi; done

keymon · 2010-05-14 11:48:39 3
Create a log file of Nvidia graphics card temperatures using nvidia-smi
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logfile=/var/log/gputemp.log; timestamp=$( date +%T );temps=$(nvidia-smi -lsa | grep Temperature | awk -F: ' { print $2 } '| cut -c2-4 | tr "\n" " ");echo "${timestamp} ${temps}" >> ${logfile}

purehate · 2010-05-28 10:14:47 6
A way to run commands on a remote computer to be displayed on the remote computer

This is a simple solution to running a remote program on a remote computer on the remote display through ssh. 1. Create an empty 'commander' file in the directory where you intend on running these commands. 2. Run the command 3. Hop on another computer and ssh in to the PC where you ran the command 4. cd to the directory where the 'commander' file is. 5. Test it by doing the following: echo "xeyes" > commander 6. If it worked properly, then xeyes will popup on the remote computer. Combined with my other one liner, you can place those in some start-up scripts and be able to screw with your wife/daughter/siblings, w/e by either launching programs or sending notifications(my other one liner). Also, creates a log file named comm_log in working directory that logs all commands ran.
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while :;do if [ ! $(ls -l commander |cut -d ' ' -f5) -eq 0 ]; then echo "Ran command: $(less commander) @ $(date +%D) $(date +%r)" >> comm_log;"$(less commander)";> commander;fi;done

evil · 2010-06-15 01:20:27 4
print your iTunes App for iPhone/iTouch/iPad to show your friends which ones you have

omit "> ~/Desktop/MyAppList`date +%s.txt`" if you don't want to print it to a file on your desktop and instead only want to display to console created and tested on: ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.6.3 BuildVersion: 10D573 Show Sample Output
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```
1Password
3D Chess Free
Adobe? Ideas 1
AIM for iPad
Anaconda XL
Anagram
Arabic Alphabet Reference and Quiz
ascii2bin
[ cut for brevity ]
```
0

find ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/. -name \*.ipa -exec basename {} \; | cut -d \. -f 1 > ~/Desktop/MyAppList`date +%s.txt`

IsraelTorres · 2010-06-16 15:14:32 5
Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts
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ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | cut -d ':' -f2

mrwill · 2010-06-30 08:52:01 3
Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts
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ifconfig eth0 | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2

dooblem · 2010-07-01 20:25:55 3
Which machine have I logged in from?
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TTY=$(tty | cut -c 6-);who | grep "$TTY " | awk '{print $6}' | tr -d '()'

sharfah · 2010-08-06 13:42:17 6
resize all JPG images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)
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ls *.JPG | cut -d . -f 1 | xargs -L1 -i convert -resize 684 {}.JPG {}.jpg

homoludens · 2010-09-12 19:47:38 3
Greets the user appropriately

Get the hour and greet the user! Make sure you add this to your bashrc, for a pleasant hacking experience! Show Sample Output
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```
Good evening
Good morning
```
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echo Good $(i=`date | cut -d: -f1 | cut -d' ' -f4-4` ; if [ $i -lt 12 ] ; then echo morning ; else if [ $i -lt 15 ] ; then echo afternoon ; else echo evening ; fi ; fi)

foolcraft · 2010-09-21 11:16:36 7
List all broadcast addresses for the routes on your host.

Can be used in a firewall script, e.g. to avoid logging broadcast packtes. Show Sample Output
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```
10.10.1.255
```
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for net in $(ip route show | cut -f1 -d\ | grep -v default); do ipcalc $net | grep Broadcast | cut -d\ -f 2; done

svg · 2010-09-28 13:21:31 3
IP list of aborted mail logins

Prints a list of ip that tried to login on SMTP/IMAP/POP3/etc.
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grep -i "aborted login" /var/log/maillog | awk 'BEGIN{FS="="}{print substr($4,8)}' | cut -d"," -f1

cicatriz · 2010-09-29 21:05:31 6
diff from last committed revision in Mercurial
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hg diff -r$((`hg -q par | cut -d":" -f1`-1))

michaelmior · 2010-10-12 20:32:22 3
Get the date field from syslog for a certain set of events

first greps syslog for certain events (grep xxxx messages) then displays the 1st 2nd and 3rd fields (-f 1,2,3) seperated by space(-d ' ') Show Sample Output
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```
Apr 28 23:11:28 HUI100404 Node restarted with memory dumped successfully.
=>Apr 28 23:11:28
```
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grep xxxx messages | cut -d ' ' -f 1,2,3

sumudu · 2010-10-22 00:01:00 3
Days left before password expires

This works only with GNU date. In solaris the command: date +%s doesn't work. You can try using the following instead: nawk 'BEGIN {print srand()}' should give the same output as date +%s under Solaris. Show Sample Output
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```
15

or

99516

The lastter one means that the password never expire.
```
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let NOW=`date +%s`/86400 ; PASS_LAST_CHANGE=`grep $USER /etc/shadow | cut -d: -f3` ; PASS_LIFE=`grep $USER /etc/shadow | cut -d: -f5`; DAYS_LEFT=$(( PASS_LAST_CHANGE + PASS_LIFE - NOW)) ; echo $DAYS_LEFT

EBAH · 2010-11-05 23:03:48 7
Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems

Lists all packages in "rc" state and purge them one at a time.
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dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -d' ' -f3 | xargs dpkg -P

cyrusza · 2010-11-22 12:53:31 6
Binary clock

Lightweight alternative with case Show Sample Output
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```
...*
...*
.*.*
.**.
```
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for a in $(date +"%H%M"|cut -b1,2,3,4 --output-delimiter=" ");do case "$a" in 0)echo "....";;1)echo "...*";;2)echo "..*.";;3)echo "..**";;4)echo ".*..";;5)echo ".*.*";;6)echo ".**.";;7)echo ".***";;8)echo "*...";;9)echo "*..*";;esac;done

unefunge · 2010-11-26 10:58:22 4
telling you from where your commit come from

usage: where COMMIT for instance: where 1178c5950d321a8c5cd8294cd67535157e296554 where HEAD~5 Show Sample Output
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```
1178c5950d321a8c5cd8294cd67535157e296554 is ahead of 
(project16/taskbranch-514)
by 3 commits
   
```
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function where(){ COUNT=0; while [ `where_arg $1~$COUNT | wc -w` == 0 ]; do let COUNT=COUNT+1; done; echo "$1 is ahead of "; where_arg $1~$COUNT; echo "by $COUNT commits";};function where_arg(){ git log $@ --decorate -1 | head -n1 | cut -d ' ' -f3- ;}

noisy · 2010-12-08 15:41:39 3
Get the IP of the host your coming from when logged in remotely

host -i `echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -f 1 -d \ ` | sed 's/.* domain name pointer $.*$\./\1/' to reverse lookup and get the hostname.
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echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -f 1 -d ' '

infinull · 2011-01-11 10:20:45 4
number files in directory according to their modification time

i use this after ripping internet radio streams to number the files as they originally played (even though streamripper can do this with -q). to number other types of files, or all files, just change the *mp3. to rename directories only you could use ... ls -lt | grep ^d | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f2- | while read ... Show Sample Output
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```
$> touch a.mp3 b.mp3 c.mp3 d.mp3
$> ls
a.mp3  b.mp3  c.mp3  d.mp3

$> IFS=$'\n'; i=1; ls -lt *mp3 | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f2- | while read f; do mv "$f" $(echo "$i"."$f"); ((i++)); done

$> ls
1.a.mp3  2.b.mp3  3.c.mp3  4.d.mp3
```
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IFS=$'\n'; i=1; ls -lt *mp3 | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f2- | while read f; do mv "$f" $(echo "$i"."$f"); ((i++)); done

m1cawber · 2011-01-22 00:21:12 6
Animated Desktop: electricsheep

This is a simple command which makes electricsheep render directly to your background
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nice -n 5 electricsheep -window-id `xwininfo -root|head -n 2|grep xwininfo|cut -c 22-26`

kbaegis · 2011-02-14 03:58:58 4
Watch RX/TX rate of an interface in kb/s
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while :; do OLD=$NEW; NEW=`cat /proc/net/dev | grep eth0 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f "3 11"`; echo $NEW $OLD | awk '{printf("\rin: % 9.2g\t\tout: % 9.2g", ($1-$3)/1024, ($2-$4)/1024)}'; sleep 1; done

DerksIT · 2011-03-22 10:23:33 3
Fix all the commit log messages from a user of a bad subversion client

Let's supose some moron used some m$ shit to commit to a later svnsynced repo. On a svn sync all his message logs cause a svnsync: Error setting property 'log': this commands finds all its contributions and fix all his commit logs Show Sample Output
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```
property 'svn:log' set on repository revision ###
property 'svn:log' set on repository revision ###
property 'svn:log' set on repository revision ###
...
```
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for R in `svn log file:///path/repo | grep ^r | grep dude | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dr -f2`; do svn ps svn:log --revprop -r $R "`svn pg svn:log --revprop -r $R file:///path/repo; perl -e 'print ".\n";' | fromdos`" file:///path/repo; done

theist · 2011-03-24 08:29:15 6
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Colorized JSON pretty printing

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Convert GoogleCL gmail contacts to cone adress book

Full Command: $ google contacts list name,name,email|perl -pne 's%^((?!N\/A)(.+?)),((?!N\/A)(.+?)),([a-z0-9\._-]+\@([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]\.)+([a-z]+\.)?([a-z]+))%${1}:${3} %imx'|grep -oP '^((?!N\/A)(.+?)) ' | sort You'll need googlecl and python-gdata. First setup google cl via: $ google Then give your PC access $ google contacts list name,email Then do the command, save it or use this one to dump it in the cone-address.txt file in your home dir: $ google contacts list name,name,email | perl -p -n -e 's%^((?!N\/A)(.+?)),((?!N\/A)(.+?)),([a-z0-9\._-]+\@([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]\.)+([a-z]+\.)?([a-z]+))%${1}:${3} %imx' | grep -o -P '^((?!N\/A)(.+?)) ' | sort > ~/cone-adress.txt Then import into cone. It filters out multiple emails, and contacts with no email that have N/A. (Picasa photo persons without email for example...)

Show all current listening programs by port and pid with SS instead of netstat

list files recursively by size

Automatically skip bad songs in your MPD playlist.

Case insensitive. Also you can pull in the songs from a blacklist, one per line - while :; do (mpc current | grep -i -f blacklist.txt && mpc next); sleep 5; done

Rename files in batch

Google dictionary of word definitions

$ wget -qO - "http://www.google.com/dictionary/json?callback=dict_api.callbacks.id100&q=steering+wheel&sl=en&tl=en&restrict=pr,de&client=te" this does the actual google dictionary query, returns a JSON string encapsulated in some fancy tag $ sed 's/dict_api\.callbacks.id100.//' here we remove the tag beginning $ sed 's/,200,null)//' and here the tag end There are also some special characters which could cause problems with some JSON parsers, so if you get some errors, this is probably the case (sed is your friend). I laso like to trim the "webDefinitions" part, because it (sometimes) contains misleading information. $ sed 's/\,\"webDefinitions.*//' (but remember to append a "}" at the end, because the JSON string will be invalid) The output also contains links to mp3 files with pronounciation. As of now, this is only usable in the English language. If you choose other than English, you will only get webDefinitions (which are crap).

Write comments to your history.

A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

display information about the CPU

Fetch the Gateway Ip Address

This is to fetch the Gateway Ip Address of a machine. Use the below format to put the value in a variable if you wish to find the gateway ip in a script $GATEWAY=$(netstat -nr | awk 'BEGIN {while ($3!="0.0.0.0") getline; print $2}')

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