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Find Malware in the current and sub directories by MD5 hashes

This command does something similar using dig which is usually more available. Show Sample Output
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```
./.ssh/authorized_keys 
./.bash_logout 
./.viminfo 
./.history/20150630 
./.history/20150527 
./.history/20150728 
./.history/20150715 
./.history/20150625 
./.history/20150624 
./.history/20150610 
./.history/20150623 
./.history/20150609 
./.history/20150608 
./.profile 
./.lesshst 
./.bashrc 
./eicar.com.txt "1370411585 100"
```
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for i in $(find . -type f); do echo -n "$i " ;dig +short $(md5sum $i | cut -d' ' -f1).malware.hash.cymru.com TXT; echo ; done

cerasus · 2015-07-28 09:58:04 8
Remove duplicate files from the current directory

Remove everything after the second "rev" to only display the duplicate filenames and their hashes.
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sha1sum * | sort | rev | uniq -df1 | rev | cut -d" " -f3 | xargs rm

Sparkette · 2015-08-09 20:32:12 9
Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.
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lsof -a -d 1-99 -Fn / | grep ^n | cut -b2- | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

sesom42 · 2015-08-18 16:55:49 9
Shows which commands you use the most.
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cut -f1 -d" " ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 30

kenorb · 2015-10-09 16:11:37 10
Screenshot a part of the screen, upload to S3 and copy URL to clipboard

Poor man's Clipular.com
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scrot -s -e 's3cmd -P put $f s3://my-bucket-screenshots/ | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 7 | xsel -i -v --primary'

runixo · 2015-10-29 13:43:58 11
Search irssi logs for specific pattern and display time and matching lines
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find ~/irclogs/ -type f -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort | cut -f2 | xargs -I {} sed -n "/^\-\-\-/ {x; /searched phrase/ p;x;h}; /searched phrase/ {H;};" {}

jnxy · 2015-11-03 14:00:50 10
Size dir
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du -s *|sort -nr|cut -f 2-|while read a;do du -hs $a;done

Plancton · 2015-11-06 12:31:29 10
Using NMAP to check if a port is open or close
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nmap -n 10.0.0.50 | grep udp | cut -d":"-f3>> test02

h_kaur2 · 2015-11-13 13:28:35 11
Using NMAP to check if a port is open or close
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nmap -n 10.0.0.50 | grep udp | cut -d":"-f3>>

h_kaur2 · 2015-11-13 13:31:14 10
Days left before password expires
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let NOW=`date +%s`/99516 ; 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

Dentorman · 2015-11-20 04:45:44 11
Filter ltab file based on minor allele count
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awk '{counts = 137 * $3 *$6; line = $0;}$1 == "CHROM" ||$4 < max_het && $3 > min_cov && $7 == "0" && counts > 1.1 {print line}' file.ltab |cut -f 1,2,9- > file.filtered.tab

gregory_owens · 2015-12-02 22:40:32 10
Google Authenticator. Setup a user and email them a QR code.

Requirements: Google Authenticator is configured as per document (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/files/2015/02/VMW_15Q1_TD_Horizon-View-Google-Authenticator_021715_FINAL_EMonjoin.pdf) including the patch at the end of the document. Login as the user to be provisioned. su username Command will: 1. Silently provision a user for Google Authenticator (TOTP) 2. Remove the unnecessary (and unsecure) code that uses google.com to create the QR code in browser. 3. Decode URL (first instance) 4. Decode URL (second instance) 5. Create a QR code 6. Send email to an account with the QR Code attached User scans QR code with Google Authenticator.
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google-authenticator -tdfo -i "Company" -l "GAuth" -r 3 -R 30 -w 17 -Q UTF8 | cut -c 62- | sed -e's/%$[0-9A-F][0-9A-F]$/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e | qrencode -o qrcode.png | sendemail -t user@domain.com -f sender@domain.com -u "QR" -a qrcode.png

mooves · 2015-12-14 06:52:08 12

List all font names installed in the system. Useful for TeX. Show Sample Output

fc-list | cut -d':' -f2 | sort -u

smarx · 2015-12-29 12:23:11 11

grant me all the groups

NSFW - use this on personal laptops where you want your personal user to have all the groups Show Sample Output
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```
Adding user user1 to group lpadmin
.....all the groups
```
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cut -f1 -d: /etc/group|xargs -n1 -I{} gpasswd -a $USERNAME {}

thoth · 2016-01-08 18:03:36 12
Show UDID of iPhone

this is what i needed on ubuntu 12.04 for ios 9
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lsusb -s `lsusb | grep "Apple" | cut -d ' ' -f 2`:`lsusb | grep "Apple" | cut -d ' ' -f 4 | sed 's/://'` -v | grep iSerial | awk '{print $3}'

dormi · 2016-01-19 09:08:27 10
total percentage of memory use for all processes with a given name
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ps -eo pmem,comm | grep chrome | cut -d " " -f 2 | paste -sd+ | bc

peter1337 · 2016-01-24 20:45:04 16

Returns the N most recently modified files from anywhere 'below' (and including) the current working directory, in order, with details.

Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output

nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; }

incidentnormal · 2016-03-04 14:53:14 12

Show hash and message of dangling git commits

Useful for looking up and commits that you may have lost during a rebase or when rewriting some history.
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git fsck --lost-found | grep commit | cut -d " " -f 3 | xargs git show -s --oneline

ghthor · 2016-03-23 17:26:17 13
list all directory sizes and sort by size

list all directory sizes and sort by size
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du -ks * | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh

unsorted · 2016-04-26 11:11:54 9
Clean up old xauth entries

Here's a quick way to clean up old xauth entries.
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xauth list | cut -f1 -d\ | xargs -i xauth remove {}

kilokill · 2016-05-04 00:46:51 12
list java heap summary
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ps -ef | grep -oh 'Xmx[0-9]*' | cut -d'x' -f2 | awk '{SUM += $1} END { print SUM}'

Raboo · 2016-05-13 11:12:08 12
Get all ProcID's for a given process

If you have to stop a bunch of processes or just want to get a list of their ID's, us this replacing with your process. Then you can use a loop to kill -9 all of them. Show Sample Output
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```
777
917
918
1012
1013
1855
```
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sudo <PROC_NAME> -aux |grep pals_ |tr -s " " |cut -d " " -f2

dskzz · 2016-06-05 02:14:10 12
who is the console user?

Finds the login id of the user that owns the console. I use it to reset my touchpad after resume from suspend in /etc/pm/sleep.d/s99local
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who | grep :0 | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 1

mikef5410 · 2016-06-22 17:33:38 12
Find 20 most frequently-used shell commands from (bash history)
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tr "\|\;" "\n" < ~/.bash_history | sed -e "s/^ //g" | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20

turrtle13 · 2016-07-01 19:27:12 10
tail from the last occurrence of a pattern to the end of the (log) file

I wanted a method to display the last run of my script from my log file. I had a pattern I could grep for to find the beginning of each run. This command line greps for that pattern in the log, finds the last occurrence and gives me the line number. Then I use the line number in tail to give me everything from that line number to the end of the log file. I tested this on Linux Mint (variant of Ubuntu) and on RHEL, but I suspect it will run many Linux systems.
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grep -n PATTERN /logs/somelog.log | cut -f1 -d: | tail -1 | xargs -I num tail -n +num /logs/somelog.log

goeltzec · 2016-07-29 15:47:26 25
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Give {Open,True}Type files reasonable names

Just a quick hack to give reasonable filenames to TrueType and OpenType fonts. I'd accumulated a big bunch of bizarrely and inconsistently named font files in my ~/.fonts directory. I wanted to copy some, but not all, of them over to my new machine, but I had no idea what many of them were. This script renames .ttf files based on the name embedded inside the font. It will also work for .otf files, but make sure you change the mv part so it gives them the proper extension. REQUIREMENTS: Bash (for extended pattern globbing), showttf (Debian has it in the fontforge-extras package), GNU grep (for context), and rev (because it's hilarious). BUGS: Well, like I said, this is a quick hack. It grew piece by piece on the command line. I only needed to do this once and spent hardly any time on it, so it's a bit goofy. For example, I find 'rev | cut -f1 | rev' pleasantly amusing --- it seems so clearly wrong, and yet it works to print the last argument. I think flexibility in expressiveness like this is part of the beauty of Unix shell scripting. One-off tasks can be be written quickly, built-up as a person is "thinking aloud" at the command line. That's why Unix is such a huge boost to productivity: it allows each person to think their own way instead of enforcing some "right way". On a tangent: One of the things I wish commandlinefu would show is the command line HISTORY of the person as they developed the script. I think it's that conversation between programmer and computer, as the pipeline is built piece-by-piece, that is the more valuable lesson than any canned script.

complete extraction of a debian-package

extracts the debian-package $debfile to $extractdir, including all packaging-information. to repack the package, just type: $dpkg-deb -b $extractdir

List the CPU model name

Information for only one core.

Empty Bind9 cache

Occasionally, to force zone updating, cache flush is necessary. The use of this command is better than restart the Bind9 process.

Search for a process by name

ps and grep is a dangerous combination -- grep tries to match everything on each line (thus the all too common: grep -v grep hack). ps -C doesn't use grep, it uses the process table for an exact match. Thus, you'll get an accurate list with: ps -fC sh rather finding every process with sh somewhere on the line.

RDP through SSH tunnel

This command will: 1. open an SSH tunnel to 2. go to background 3. wait for 10 seconds for the connection 4. during the 10 seconds wait it will localy run 'rdesktop' to connect to the remote host through the created SSH tunnel. Password-less log in can be achieved (when server allows it) by adding '-p ' to the 'rdesktop' command

Make anything more awesome

Pipe any command through figlet to make the output more awesome. Example: $ ls | figlet

a simple bash one-liner to create php file and call php function

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

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