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Hostname tab-completion for ssh

This is meant for the bash shell. Put this function in your .profile and you'll be able to use tab-completion for sshing any host which is in your known_hosts file. This assumes that your known_hosts file is located at ~/.ssh/known_hosts. The "complete" command should go on a separate line as such: function autoCompleteHostname() { local hosts=($(awk '{print $1}' ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -d, -f1)); local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}; COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W '${hosts[@]}' -- $cur )) } complete -F autoCompleteHostname ssh
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function autoCompleteHostname() { local hosts; local cur; hosts=($(awk '{print $1}' ~/.ssh/known_hosts | cut -d, -f1)); cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}; COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W '${hosts[@]}' -- $cur )) } complete -F autoCompleteHostname ssh

sbisordi · 2009-05-17 23:12:34 10
Monitor logs in Linux using Tail

Works in Ubuntu, I hope it will work on all Linux machines. For Unixes, tail should be capable of handling more than one file with '-f' option. This command line simply take log files which are text files, and not ending with a number, and it will continuously monitor those files. Putting one alias in .profile will be more useful.
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find /var/log -type f -exec file {} \; | grep 'text' | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed -e's/:$//g' | grep -v '[0-9]$' | xargs tail -f

mohan43u · 2009-06-03 09:47:08 11
Count the total number of files in each immediate subdirectory

counts the total (recursive) number of files in the immediate (depth 1) subdirectories as well as the current one and displays them sorted. Fixed, as per ashawley's comment Show Sample Output
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```
>find . -type f -printf "%h\n" | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
    694 Source
    312 Defaults
     50 Makeinfo
      5 CVS
      1 .
```
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find . -type f -printf "%h\n" | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

ivancho · 2009-10-09 23:49:53 5
Short Information about loaded kernel modules

I modify 4077 and marssi commandline to simplify it and skip an error when parsing the first line of lsmod (4077). Also, it's more concise and small now. I skip using xargs ( not required here ). This is only for GNU sed. For thoses without GNU sed, use that : modinfo $(lsmod | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}') | sed -e '/^dep/s/$/\n/g' -e '/^file/b' -e '/^desc/b' -e '/^dep/b' -e d
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modinfo $(cut -d' ' -f1 /proc/modules) | sed '/^dep/s/$/\n/; /^file\|^desc\|^dep/!d'

sputnick · 2009-11-18 23:40:46 4
Show top committers for SVN repositority for today
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svn log -r {`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`}:HEAD|grep '^r[0-9]' |cut -d\| -f2|sort|uniq -c

ivanatora · 2010-02-18 10:41:17 4
Save xkcd to a pdf with captions

Saves to a PDF with title and alt text of comic. As asked for on http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91100 Change xkcd.com to dynamic.xkcd.com/comics/random for a random comic.
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curl -sL xkcd.com | grep '<img [^>]*/><br/>' | sed -r 's|<img src="(.*)" title="(.*)" alt="(.*)" /><br/>|\1\t\2\t\3|' > /tmp/a; curl -s $(cat /tmp/a | cut -f1) | convert - -gravity south -draw "text 0,0 \"$(cat /tmp/a | cut -f2)\"" pdf:- > xkcd.pdf

matthewbauer · 2010-03-03 03:41:31 14
Shows what processes need to be restarted after system upgrade

emerge,apt-get,yum... all update your system. This will at some point replace either a runtime dependency or a process (which is still running). This oneliner will list what processes need to be restarted Show Sample Output
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```
deadlib
agetty
cron
dhcpcd
irssi
mdadm
rsync
syslog-ng
tmux
```
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deadlib() { lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u; }

Naib · 2010-11-17 12:53:30 4
Lists all usernames in alphabetical order
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cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | sort

dan · 2011-12-20 10:46:52 11
drop first column of output by piping to this
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tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2-

sesom42 · 2015-05-08 12:47:09 10
check open ports without netstat or lsof
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declare -a array=($(tail -n +2 /proc/net/tcp | cut -d":" -f"3"|cut -d" " -f"1")) && for port in ${array[@]}; do echo $((0x$port)); done

andreisid · 2016-01-12 10:24:44 107
Save a copy of all debian packages in the form in which they are installed and configured on your system

A copy of all installed debian packages on your system will be put back together, with all changes in configuration files you made and placed in the current directory. Make sure you have enough disk space (say 2-3 GB). Break any time with Ctrl+C. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls -1
accountsservice_0.6.45-1ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb
acl_2.2.52-3build1_amd64.deb
acpid_2.0.28-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
acpi-support_0.142_amd64.deb
...
^C
(Ctrl+C)
```
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for a in $(sudo dpkg --get-selections|cut -f1); do dpkg-repack $a|awk '{if (system("sleep .5 && exit 2") != 2) exit; print}';done

knoppix5 · 2021-01-17 17:07:02 333
Find and list users who talk like "lolcats"

Greps IRC logs for phrases and lists users who said them. Show Sample Output
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```
Note to self, ban user 'aoluser'
Note to self, ban user 'msnuser'
```
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cd ~/.purple/logs/; egrep -ri "i can haz|pwn|l33t|w00|zomg" * | cut -d'/' -f 3 | sort | uniq | xargs -I {} echo "Note to self: ban user '{}'"

rhythmx · 2009-02-05 21:23:53 20
Replicate a directory structure dropping the files
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for x in `find /path/ -type d | cut -b bytesoffoldername-`; do mkdir -p newpath/$x; done

f4nt · 2009-03-06 20:07:51 11
Which fonts are installed?

See all fonts installed in your system Show Sample Output
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```
Andale Mono
Arab
Arial
Arial Black
AR PL UMing CN
AR PL UMing HK
AR PL UMing TW
AR PL UMing TW MBE
Balker
Bitstream Charter
Bitstream Vera Sans
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Bitstream Vera Serif ....
```
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fc-list | cut -d ':' -f 1 | sort -u

kayowas · 2009-05-07 12:57:58 15
Remove invalid key from the known_hosts file for the IP address of a host

Quick shortcut if you know the hostname and want to save yourself one step for looking up the IP address separately.
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ssh-keygen -R `host hostname | cut -d " " -f 4`

flart · 2009-09-23 14:58:28 8

Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the | sort -rn which would put the biggest packges on top. That was purposely left out as the command is slightly on the slow side Also you may need to run this as root as some files can only be checked by du if you can read them ;) Show Sample Output

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176     acl                                                                                                                                     
44      acpi                                                                                                                                    
396     acpi-support                                                                                                                            
32      acpi-support-base                                                                                                                       
108     acpid                                                                                                                                   
524     adduser                                                                                                                                 
408     akonadi-server                                                                                                                          
2416    akregator                                                                                                                               
388     alsa-base                                                                                                                               
1840    alsa-utils                                                                                                                              
1860    amor                                                                                                                                    
96      anacron                                                                                                                                 
120     apmd                                                                                                                                    
4512    apt                                                                                                                                     
104     apt-file                                                                                                                                
376     apt-utils                                                                                                                               
140     apt-xapian-index                                                                                                                        
9184    aptitude                                                                                                                                
112     at                                                                                                                                      
104     avahi-autoipd                                                                                                                           
252     avahi-daemon                                                                                                                            
260     base-files                                                                                                                              
100     base-passwd                                                                                                                             
du: cannot access `diverted by dash to: /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz': No such file or directory                                         
du: cannot access `diverted by dash to: /bin/sh.distrib': No such file or directory

dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L $pkg | xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'if [ ! -d "{}" ]; then echo "{}"; fi' | tr '\n' '\000' | du -c --files0-from - | tail -1 | sed "s/total/$pkg/"; done

pykler · 2009-10-12 14:57:54 5

show git commit history
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git reflog show | grep '}: commit' | nl | sort -nr | nl | sort -nr | cut --fields=1,3 | sed s/commit://g | sed -e 's/HEAD*@{[0-9]*}://g'

jimthunderbird · 2010-03-09 07:44:05 4
Show top SVN committers for the last month
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svn log -r {`date +"%Y-%m-%d" -d "1 month ago"`}:HEAD|grep '^r[0-9]' |cut -d\| -f2|sort|uniq -c

ivanatora · 2010-03-25 09:43:15 4
Count occurrences per minute in a log file

The cut should match the relevant timestamp part of the logfile, the uniq will count the number of occurrences during this time interval. Show Sample Output
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```
      1 29/Apr/2010:13:06
      1 29/Apr/2010:13:05
   1496 29/Apr/2010:13:06
   1635 29/Apr/2010:13:07
   1414 29/Apr/2010:13:08
   1329 29/Apr/2010:13:09
      1 29/Apr/2010:13:10
```
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grep <something> logfile | cut -c2-18 | uniq -c

buzzy · 2010-04-29 11:26:09 5
List bash functions defined in .bash_profile or .bashrc
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declare -F | cut -d ' ' -f 3

wilmoore · 2010-05-29 08:19:47 4
translate what is in the clipboard in english and write it to the terminal

Uses google api to translate, you can modify the language in which translate modifying the parameter "langpair=|en", the format is language input|language output.
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wget -qO - "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=|en&v=1.0&q=`xsel`" |cut -d \" -f 6

fain182 · 2010-06-04 17:20:17 11
Get IPv4 of eth0 for use with scripts

I've been using it in a script to build from scratch proxy servers. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.0.1
```
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ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet " | cut -d ':' -f2 | awk '{print $1}'

jaimerosario · 2010-06-29 00:06:08 4

Get all shellcode on binary file from objdump

Tired copy paste to get opcode from objdump huh ? Get more @ http://gunslingerc0de.wordpress.com Show Sample Output

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gunslinger@localhost:~/$ objdump -d shell

shell:     file format elf32-i386


Disassembly of section .text:

08048060 <.text>:
 8048060:	31 c0                	xor    %eax,%eax
 8048062:	31 db                	xor    %ebx,%ebx
 8048064:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048066:	31 d2                	xor    %edx,%edx
 8048068:	b0 46                	mov    $0x46,%al
 804806a:	31 db                	xor    %ebx,%ebx
 804806c:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 804806e:	cd 80                	int    $0x80
 8048070:	b0 0b                	mov    $0xb,%al
 8048072:	53                   	push   %ebx
 8048073:	68 2f 2f 73 68       	push   $0x68732f2f
 8048078:	68 2f 62 69 6e       	push   $0x6e69622f
 804807d:	89 e3                	mov    %esp,%ebx
 804807f:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048081:	31 c9                	xor    %ecx,%ecx
 8048083:	53                   	push   %ebx
 8048084:	cd 80                	int    $0x80
gunslinger@localhost:~/$ objdump -d ./shell|grep '[0-9a-f]:'|grep -v 'file'|cut -f2 -d:|cut -f1-6 -d' '|tr -s ' '|tr '\t' ' '|sed 's/ $//g'|sed 's/ /\\x/g'|paste -d '' -s |sed 's/^/"/'|sed 's/$/"/g'
"\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\xcd\x80\x31\xc0\xb0\x0b\x31\xdb\xcd\x80"
gunslinger@localhost:~/$

-------------------------------shellcodetest.c---------------------------------
char shellcode[] = "\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31"
		   "\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x53\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f"
		   "\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\x53\xcd\x80";

int main(void)
{
	(*(void(*)()) shellcode)();
}
------------------------------------EOF----------------------------------------

root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# vim shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# cat shellcodetest.c
char shellcode[] = "\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x31\xd2\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31"
		   "\xc9\xcd\x80\xb0\x0b\x53\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f"
		   "\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x31\xc9\x31\xc9\x53\xcd\x80";

int main(void)
{
	(*(void(*)()) shellcode)();
}
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# gcc -o shellcodetest shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# chown root:root shellcodetest.c
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# chmod 4755 shellcodetest
root@localhost:/home/gunslinger/# exit
gunslinger@localhost:~/$ ./shellcodetest
# id
uid=0(root) gid=1000(gunslinger) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),106(lpadmin),121(admin),122(sambashare),1000(gunslinger)
# whoami
root
# echo GAMEOVER
GAMEOVER
# exit
gunslinger@localhost:~/$

gunslinger_ · 2010-07-11 15:44:48 112

duration of the DNS-query
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server=8.8.8.8; host="apple.com"; queries=128; for i in `seq $queries`; do let x+=`dig @${server} $host | grep "Query time" | cut -f 4 -d " "`; done && echo "scale=3;($x/${queries})" | bc

cas_alexi · 2010-11-25 09:52:38 4
Google Translate

substitute "example" with desired string; tl = target language (en, fr, de, hu, ...); you can leave sl parameter as-is (autodetection works fine) Show Sample Output
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```
exemple de traduction
```
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wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=translation+example&sl=auto&tl=fr" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1

sairon · 2011-03-06 13:46:16 109
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quickest (i blv) way to get the current program name minus the path (BASH)

Useful in shell scripts when you're trying to get the shell script name without the full path - and easier than awking or cutting. Bash pattern matching and variable manip is fun.

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"

Redirect bash built-in output to stdout

I've had a horrible time trying to pipe the output of some shell built-ins like 'time' to other programs. The built-in doesn't output to stdout or stderr most of the time but using the above will let you pipe the output to something else.

Backup all MySQL Databases to individual files

find text in a file

this will find text in the directory you specify and give you line where it appears.

Monitor all DNS queries seen by the local machine

Encoding from AVI to MPEG format

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-mpeg.html MEncoder can create MPEG (MPEG-PS) format output files. Usually, when you are using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video, it is because you are encoding for a constrained format such as SVCD, VCD, or DVD. To change MEncoder's output file format, use the -of mpeg option. Creating an MPEG-1 file suitable to be played on systems with minimal multimedia support, such as default Windows installs: $ mencoder input.avi -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg1:tsaf:muxrate=2000 \ -o output.mpg -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video:vbitrate=1152:keyint=15:mbd=2:aspect=4/3

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

ignore .DS_Store forever in GIT

With a couple of little commands, you?ll be able to ignore the .DS_Store files forever from your git repositories on mac! The following command will add the .gitignore file to the git configuration git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore then, the following, will add the .DS_Store to the list echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore

Set audible alarm when an IP address comes online

Waiting for your server to finish rebooting? Issue the command above and you will hear a beep when it comes online. The -i 60 flag tells ping to wait for 60 seconds between ping, putting less strain on your system. Vary it to your need. The -a flag tells ping to include an audible bell in the output when a package is received (that is, when your server comes online).

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