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Reset the last modified time for each file in a git repo to its last commit time

For OS X/bsd; probably messy
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git ls-files | while read file; do echo $file; touch -t $(date -jf "%s" $(git log --date=local -1 --format="@%ct" "$file" | cut -b 2-) +%Y%m%d%H%M) "$file"; done

oznogon · 2015-07-06 05:35:33 9
cd out n directories (To move n level out of current directory)

Additionally you cal also print the current directory in the end. cdb(){ range=$(eval "echo '{1..$1}'"); toPrint="'../%.0s' $range"; printfToEval=$(echo "printf $toPrint"); toCd=$(eval $printfToEval); eval "cd $toCd"; pwd; } Show Sample Output
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```
$ pwd
/Users/aapa/Projects/elasticsearch
$ cdb 1
$ pwd
/Users/aapa/Projects
$ cdb 2
$ pwd
/Users
```
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cdb(){ range=$(eval "echo '{1..$1}'"); toPrint="'../%.0s' $range"; printfToEval=$(echo "printf $toPrint"); toCd=$(eval $printfToEval); eval "cd $toCd"; }

knoxxs · 2015-07-08 11:51:18 9
Randomly succeeding command

Command will succeed n% of the time. ran 75 will cause command to succeed 75% of the time. No argument will cause it to succeed 50% of the time. Show Sample Output
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```
$ for i in {1..1000}; do ran 75 >> /tmp/ran_test; done
$ grep -c TRUE /tmp/ran_test
776
$ for i in {1..10}; do ran 75 >> /tmp/ran_test; done
$ grep -c TRUE /tmp/ran_test
7
$ for i in {1..1000000}; do ran 16 >> /tmp/ran_test; done
$ echo $(grep -c TRUE /tmp/ran_test)/1000000 | bc -l
.15952300000000000000

ran 80
TRUE
```
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ran() { R=$((RANDOM%100)); if [ $R -gt "${1:-50}" ]; then echo FALSE; false; else echo TRUE; true; fi; }

snipertyler · 2015-07-15 15:34:56 9
Prepend text to a file
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echo "text to prepend" | cat - file

rahouni · 2015-07-17 11:15:34 9
Continuously show wifi signal strength on a mac

Shows the WiFi signal strength without having to display thousands of lines Show Sample Output
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```
Wifi signal strength: -34
```
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while i=1; do echo -ne 'Wifi signal strength:' $(/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I | grep CtlRSSI | awk {'print $2'}) '\r'; sleep 0.5; done

ackgrep · 2015-07-19 11:52:04 9
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 accents from file name

I had trouble with accent I could do a simple mv by hand but it is not efficient. I found this online http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/158635-remove-spanish-accent-file-name.html but I could not specify the accented letter direcly because it is not in the same encoding as my cli so I changed the char for their octal value. to add accent I use this table http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl7_iso_8859-1.htm and add the values to the tr part. the other "duplicates" where not working for me. comment to help me better this script. :) Show Sample Output
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```
st?phanie[85].docx is renamed to stephanie[85].docx
```
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for f in *; do tmp_f=`echo $f | tr "\351" "e"`; if [ "$tmp_f" != "$f" ]; then mv $f $tmp_f; echo "$f is renamed to $tmp_f"; fi done

weapstyle · 2015-08-05 15:56:05 11
Make .bashrc function to backup the data you changed last houres

Make a backup of the data you have changed last. After running only type backup in new cmd and all files will be in a tar archive in /tmp.
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echo "function backup() { find ~ -type f -mtime 0 | tar cvfz /tmp/24h-backup.tar.gz -T - ;}" >> ~/.bashrc

maltego · 2015-08-13 14:43:21 13
Return ZSH colors
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echo ${(o)color}

slempke · 2015-08-18 19:23:17 10
Salvage a borked terminal

Works almost every time.
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echo -e \\033c

quesne · 2015-08-20 10:54:49 10
Send your svn diff to meld

but can't diff dir...
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echo 'diff-cmd = meld' >> ~/.subversion/config

unixmonkey89911 · 2015-09-08 10:06:51 10
printing text between tags
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echo or cat something | grep -Po '(?<=text_before).*(?=text_after)'

petteriIII · 2015-09-11 09:19:57 9
Pipe to X11 clipboard

This sequence of pipes will strip the last newline and send the remainder to the X11 clipboard. I have it as: alias clipb='perl -pe "chomp if eof" | xclip -selection c' so I can just do "echo hello | clipb" Multi-line texts will keep their internal newlines, but the last newline will be removed. This usually makes most sense. Show Sample Output
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```
This will add the value of $MYFILE (without trailing newline) to the X11 clipboard
```
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echo $MYFILE | perl -pe "chomp if eof" | xclip -selection c

magicus · 2015-09-18 10:50:12 8
Get all shellcode on binary file from objdump
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echo "\"$(objdump -d BINARY | grep '[0-9a-f]:' | cut -d$'\t' -f2 | grep -v 'file' | tr -d " \n" | sed 's/../\\x&/g')\""

reiderroque · 2015-09-25 20:21:26 11
Global BTC rate in EUR

Returns the global weighted BTC rate in EUR. Requires the "jq" JSON parser. Show Sample Output
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```
BTC rate is 213.53 ?
```
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echo "BTC rate is" $(wget https://api.bitcoinaverage.com/ticker/global/EUR/ -q -O - | jq ".last") "?"

lordtoran · 2015-09-28 23:03:59 13
pretty print environment variable PATH

Echo $PATH isn't very easy to read. Show Sample Output
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```
/bin
/home/wbg/anaconda/bin
/home/wbg/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/sbin
```
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echo $PATH | sed 's/:/\n/g' | sort | uniq

wbg · 2015-09-30 05:55:51 13
Monitor memory fine-grained usage (e.g. firefox)

I have modified the original one-liner to allow it to manage multiple PIDs. However, I haven't found the way it can work properly with the watch command. NOTE: brace expand must be activated via "set -B" in order to this script can work. Show Sample Output
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```
961936 KB
```
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cat $(echo "ls /proc/{`pidof firefox | sed -e 's/$/,/' -e 's/ /,/g'`}/smaps 2>/dev/null" | bash) | awk '/Rss/{sum += $2; } END{print sum, "KB"}'

pchalim · 2015-09-30 22:22:53 9
Force laptop "idle" mode action when laptop lid is closed

Force computer "idle" state when lid is closed, regardless of inhibitors (power manager) in place, and runs logind preset action (sleep, suspend...). See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/logind.conf.html
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echo 'LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no' > /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/respect-inhibit-lid.conf

lolssl · 2015-10-01 17:20:26 12
Current directory disk usage by day for last 90 days in GB
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for x in {0..90}; do { echo $x $(find . -type f -mtime $x -exec du -cs {} \; |awk -F " " '{sum+=$1} END {sum/=1048576}END{print sum,"G"}'); }; done

g0dsp33d · 2015-10-08 18:19:00 9
checking if an IP is valid.
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echo $IP | egrep '^(([0-9]{1,2}|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){3}([0-9]{1,2}|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])$'

andregyn62 · 2015-10-19 18:06:32 11
Ensuring that the IP has no strange characters

This command validates if exist any character different in 0-255 and dot. If any characters different is typed the error menssage is showing. Show Sample Output
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```
IP="192.168.1.1"
checking=`echo ${IP} | sed "s/[0-9\.]//g"`;
if [ "${checking}" != "" ]; 
   then 
           echo "Please type only numeric characters separated for dot";
   exit;
fi
```
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echo ${IP} | sed "s/[0-9\.]//g"

andregyn62 · 2015-10-19 18:20:03 11
Use /etc/fortune as signature in thunderbird

In Thunderbird open the settings for your email account, mark the checkbox for 'Attach the signature from a file instead' and use the filename '~/mailsignature.txt' Now every time when you open a terminal you see the fortune displayed in the terminal and the mail signature gets regenerated. Show Sample Output
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```
--
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
```
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echo 'echo /etc/games/fortune > ~/mailsignature.txt' >> .bashrc

dededede · 2015-11-07 15:17:12 11
Calculate CPU load limit on GNU/Linux

shell order of operation example which calculates: x = number of physical CPU's y = number of cores per CPU 2(x * y) + 1 = CPU load limit Show Sample Output
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```
9
```
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echo "$(( $(( $(grep 'physical id' '/proc/cpuinfo' | uniq | wc -l) * $(grep 'core id' '/proc/cpuinfo' | wc -l) )) * 2 + 1 ))"

snorf · 2015-11-14 20:44:39 11
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
Loop over the days of a month, in $YYYY$MM$DD format
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YYYY=2014; MM=02; for DD in $(cal $MM $YYYY | grep "^ *[0-9]"); do [ ${#DD} = 1 ] && DD=0$DD; echo $YYYY$MM$DD; done

Dentorman · 2015-11-20 09:37:14 705
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