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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). In this case if you have a file called '12" record'. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem. Both solutions work bad if the number of files is more than the allowed line length of the shell.
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svn st | cut -c 9- | parallel -X tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 11:43:16 3
List top ten files/directories sorted by size

If a directory name contains space xargs will do the wrong thing. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ deals better with that. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
33M     a b
17M     libxnee
3.6M    doc
3.0M    gnee
```
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du -s * | sort -nr | head | cut -f2 | parallel -k du -sh

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 12:59:14 6
get one field inside another that is delimited by space
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cut -f2 file.txt | cut -d " " -f1

eastwind · 2010-03-15 08:01:02 4
Facebook e-mail header X-Facebook IP deobfuscator

Currently Facebook has updated their headers to display 127.0.0.1 but if you have saved e-mails from messages and FB related mail you can still reveal the IP. :) Tested on Mac OS X 10.6.3 Show Sample Output
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```
127.0.0.1
```
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echo "X-Facebook: from zuckmail ([MTI3LjAuMC4x])" | cut -d \[ -f 2 | cut -d \] -f 1 | openssl base64 -d

IsraelTorres · 2010-05-09 00:46:28 4
Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
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cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | sort

dog · 2010-07-07 12:12:02 5
Display a random man page

Another one. Maybe not the quicker because of the sort command, but it will also look in other man sections. updated with goodevilgenius 'shuf' idea
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man $(ls -1 /usr/share/man/man?/ | shuf -n1 | cut -d. -f1)

dooblem · 2010-08-20 23:36:10 3
Get all links of a website
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wget -O- -q http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=2067 | sed -n -e 'H;${x;s/\n/ /g;p;}' | sed -e "s/[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]=\"/\n/g" | cut -d "\"" -f1 | sort -u | grep deb$

unixmonkey11835 · 2010-09-03 15:13:10 3
Get a list of all contributors to an SVN repo
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svn log -q | grep -v "^-" | cut -d "|" -f 2 | sort -u

michaelmior · 2010-10-07 21:52:05 3
get a list of top 1000 sites from alexa

this will dump a list of domains one per line into a text file
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curl -s -O http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip ; unzip -q -o top-1m.csv.zip top-1m.csv ; head -1000 top-1m.csv | cut -d, -f2 | cut -d/ -f1 > topsites.txt

chrismccoy · 2010-11-01 01:25:53 4
count number of CPU available for members of a given Virtual Organization

Of course, this command must be executed at a GRID User Interface lhcb - name of your VO, substitute it with the one you are interested it. Show Sample Output
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```
1388123
```
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echo `lcg-infosites --vo lhcb ce | cut -f 1| grep [[:digit:]]| tr '\n' '+' |sed -e 's/\ //g' -e 's/+$//'`|bc -l

kbat · 2010-11-10 15:06:00 3
Get your IP addresses

This is what we use. You can grep -v 127.0.0.1 if you wish.
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ifconfig | grep -o "inet [^ ]*" | cut -d: -f2

dooblem · 2010-12-06 10:36:52 5
find the device when you only know the mount point

Identical output but a different way without having to shoot with the Awk cannon :)
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df | grep -w '/media/mountpoint' | cut -d " " -f 1

ntropia · 2011-01-21 05:38:05 3
find the device when you only know the mount point

Same output Show Sample Output
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```
A different way to obtain the same without having "to shoot" with the Awk cannon :)
```
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df | grep -w '/media/armadillo' | cut -d " " -f 1

ntropia · 2011-01-21 05:39:58 3
Calculate 1**2 + 2**2 + 3**2 + ...

I can't put the last ^2 with seq, so I reverse it to delete the last +N. So for doing sum(N^2) you have to do sum((N+1)^2). Must be a better way. Show Sample Output
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```
385
```
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seq -s^2+ 11 |rev| cut -d'+' -f2- | rev | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 08:41:14 7
Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum

Nothing special about hashing here, only the use of cut, I think, could result at fewer keystrokes. Show Sample Output
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```
23e4a2a9d1c125733a2e6b797f7f54ef
```
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echo -n "String to MD5" | md5sum | cut -f1 -d' '

xakon · 2011-03-05 03:53:09 4
cut with tab or other white space chars

cut -f1 -d\<TAB>
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cut -f1 -d"<TAB>"

dennisfaust · 2011-05-05 18:17:36 6
view user friends
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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

cancerianeyes · 2011-06-24 03:54:14 4
Check your ip public using dyndns.org

This is just a "cut" addicted variant of the previous unixmonkey24730 command...
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wget -O - -q http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1| cut -c2-

ztank1013 · 2011-09-17 13:42:01 4
Get a list of all browsable Samba shares on the target server.
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smbclient -N -gL \\SambaServer 2>&1 | grep -e "Disk|" | cut -d'|' -f2

dynaguy · 2012-07-07 04:45:06 3
Get your current Public IP
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curl -s http://checkrealip.com/ | grep "Current IP Address" | cut -d ' ' -f 4

kjhank · 2012-07-17 23:17:34 3
Get the IP address of a machine. Just the IP, no junk.
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ifconfig -a | awk '/Bcast/{print $2}' | cut -c 5-19

BigCow · 2013-04-10 14:18:25 5
Display live hosts on the network

Displays live hosts on the same network as the local machine with their hostnames and IP addresses. This command is IPv6 and multiple network adapter safe and does not rely on awk or sed, however it requires the "nmap" package installed. Might not work on OSX. Example alias for shell startup file: alias livehosts='nmap -sP "$(ip -4 -o route get 1 | cut -d " " -f 7)"/24 | grep report | cut -d " " -f 5-' Show Sample Output
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```
gateway.url (192.168.2.1)
host1.mynetwork (192.168.2.123)
host2.mynetwork (192.168.2.140)
192.168.2.147
host3.mynetwork (192.168.2.148)
192.168.2.187
192.168.2.190
host4.mynetwork (192.168.2.194)
```
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nmap -sP "$(ip -4 -o route get 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 7)"/24 | grep report | cut -d ' ' -f 5-

lordtoran · 2019-02-01 03:52:02 33
stores the number of lines of "file" in a variable to use in a loop
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count=`wc -l file | cut -d ' ' -f1`

vmplacco · 2009-02-25 21:21:47 5
remove exact phrase from multiple files

Linux : these script enable you to edit multiple files and remove exact phrase from multiple files
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grep -r "mystring" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "s/mystring//"

mohamednasr2000 · 2009-04-09 12:49:01 9
Randomize the order of lines in a text file.

Replace FILE with a filename (or - for stdin).
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awk 'BEGIN {srand()} {print int(rand()*1000000) "\t" $0}' FILE | sort -n | cut -f 2-

udim · 2009-04-19 20:04:58 7
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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"

Mostly silent FLAC checking (only errors are displayed)

FLAC's built in integrity checks are far more useful then devising a scheme to use MD5 sum files. This will check all the FLAC in a directory and output only errors. Remove the "s" after the "t" and it will be somewhat verbose in the check.

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manualy installed.

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manually installed. So they are not automatically removed if you remove some meta package - like gnome-desktop-environment for example.

Insert a line for each n lines

specially usefull for sql scripts with insert / update statements, to add a commit command after n statements executed.

Recursive grep of all c++ source under the current directory

I like this better than some of the alternatives using -exec, because if I want to change the string, it's right there at the end of the command line. That means less editing effort and more time to drink coffee.

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

a function to find the fastest DNS server

http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.

Convert the output of one or more (log, source code ...) files into html,

Requires the "enscript" package. frank@zappa:~# sudo apt-get install enscript Or http://www.codento.com/people/mtr/genscript/ "use your head"

Get your external IP address without curl

Curl is not installed by default on many common distros anymore. wget always is :) $ wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip

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