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Get eth0 ip

bash only - no grep, sed, awk, whatever - zero overhead alternatively using ifconfig instead of "ip addr ..." A=$(ifconfig eth0); A=${A##*inet addr:}; echo ${A%% *} Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.242.10
```
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A=$(ip addr show dev eth0); A=${A##*inet }; echo ${A%%/*}

charley · 2013-03-13 23:07:37 5
macports update
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sudo port selfupdate ; echo '---------' ; sudo port upgrade outdated

roozbeh · 2013-03-21 04:07:54 4
Check if variable is a number

calculate if "$1" is a number ... decimals included :)
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(($1 > 0)) && echo "var is a number"

khayyam · 2013-03-22 01:15:00 6
Poor man's pomodoro timer

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down periods of work into 25-minute intervals called 'Pomodori' (from the Italian word for 'tomatoes') separated by short breaks. You need to prepare a short .wav file (the "ring.wav" in the sample command line). This command will trigger aplay to play ring.wav 25 minutes from now on, which can be used as a poor man's pomodoro timer. Show Sample Output
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```
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 16 at Thu Mar 21 23:07:00 2013
```
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echo "aplay ring.wav" | at now + 25 min

liancheng · 2013-03-22 04:27:57 7
Twitter Account Validator

Reason can be: taken, available, contains_banned_word
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if wget https://twitter.com/users/username_available?username=xmuda -q -O - | grep -q "\"reason\":\"taken\""; then echo "Username taken"; else echo "Free / Banned Name"; fi

Joschasa · 2013-03-23 17:39:15 4
find potentially malicious PHP commands used in backdoors and aliked scripts

I have found that base64 encoded webshells and the like contain lots of data but hardly any newlines due to the formatting of their payloads. Checking the "width" will not catch everything, but then again, this is a fuzzy problem that relies on broad generalizations and heuristics that are never going to be perfect. What I have done is set an arbitrary threshold (200 for example) and compare the values that are produced by this script, only displaying those above the threshold. One webshell I tested this on scored 5000+ so I know it works for at least one piece of malware.
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for ii in $(find /path/to/docroot -type f -name \*.php); do echo $ii; wc -lc $ii | awk '{ nr=$2/($1 + 1); printf("%d\n",nr); }'; done

faceinthecrowd · 2013-04-05 19:06:17 10
Install phpmyadmin in Debian 6

This command will install phpmyadmin, set apache2 server and restart apache2. After running this command you can open phpmyadmin on http://yoursite.com/phpmyadmin
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apt-get install phpmyadmin; echo "Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf; service apache2 restart

ZEROF · 2013-04-06 16:20:55 6
Non-interactively set timezone in Ubuntu

Replace the first part of the command above with the appropriate timezone string. Eg: 'Europe/London' or for UTC - 'Etc/UTC'. The appropriate string can be found from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones This is useful when your server is installed by a data centre (managed hardware, VPS, etc) and the timezone is not usually set to the one your prefer.
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echo 'Etc/UTC' | tee /etc/timezone; dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata

donatello · 2013-04-22 06:14:55 13
Clear linux cache
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sudo su; sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

ab_simas · 2013-04-23 14:07:15 4
list all process

list all java process info.
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for i in `pidof java`; do echo $i; ll /proc/$i; done;

cuizhaohua · 2013-04-26 08:01:21 10
Force a kernel panic

Well, this is quite useful for testing if your hardware watchdog is working properly.
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echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

fangfufu · 2013-05-07 19:41:40 6
Chrome sucks
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ps -o rss= -C Chrome | (x=0; while read rss; do ((x+=$rss)); done; echo $((x/1024)))

sesom42 · 2013-05-08 07:22:03 5
Run git gc in all git repositories bellow .

git gc should be run on all git repositories every 100 commits. This will help do do so if you have many git repositories ;-)
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find . -name .git -print0 | while read -d $'\0' g; do echo "$g"; cd "$g"; git gc --aggressive; cd -; done

Tungmar · 2013-05-09 08:03:23 6
Produces a list of when your domains expire
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cat domainlist.txt | while read line; do echo -ne $line; whois $line | grep Expiration ; done | sed 's:Expiration Date::'

jun3337 · 2013-05-13 02:55:17 8
grep all pdf files in a folder

This command is useful for searching through a whole folder worth of pdf files. Show Sample Output
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```
--------Lecture_VIII_LinkLayer.pdf-------

forwarding frame before CRC is checked (at end of frame)
--------Lecture_VII_IP.pdf-------

--------Lecture_VI_NetworkLayer.pdf-------
```
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for i in *.pdf; do echo --------$i-------; echo; pdftotext $i - | grep -i Yourpattern; done

fangfufu · 2013-05-22 05:36:06 12
number kill your terminal

some numbers have strange output! some numbers output nothing! some numbers will kill your terminal! even logout when running in tty but i don't know why! can anyone explain it to me?
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for ((i=0; i>-1000; --i)); do echo "${!i}"; done

liungkejin · 2013-05-30 02:52:46 7
Wait for Web service to spin up, aka alert me when the server stops returning a 503

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```
OK: server is up.
OK: server is up.
OK: server is up.
```
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while true; do curl -vsL -o /dev/null example.com 2>&1 | grep 503 > /dev/null || echo "OK: server is up."; sleep 8; done

noah · 2013-06-26 15:24:51 6
Show numerical values for each of the 256 colors in ZSH

Prints an easy-to-copy color code for each color. Show Sample Output
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```
\e[38;05;1m
\e[38;05;2m
\e[38;05;3m
```
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for i in {0..255}; do echo -e "\e[38;05;${i}m\\\e[38;05;${i}m"; done | column -c 80 -s ' '; echo -e "\e[m"

derv82 · 2013-07-05 07:16:19 6
Encrypt/decrypt a string from the command line

Need to encrypt something from the command line? I've used this before to encrypt passwords with a master password that was shared amongst a team. To decrypt: ~$ echo -n 'jA0EAwMCPdknsznAww5gySL1/quqhXg6QgQkIz5abzGP5EZgTbXCFU+y6dP8ySWovytc' | base64 --decode | gpg --decrypt gpg: CAST5 encrypted data Enter passphrase: secret gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase HelloWorld! Show Sample Output
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```
Enter passphrase: secret
Repeat passphrase: secret
jA0EAwMCPdknsznAww5gySL1/quqhXg6QgQkIz5abzGP5EZgTbXCFU+y6dP8ySWovytc
```
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echo 'HelloWorld!' | gpg --symmetric | base64

ryanchapman · 2013-07-06 08:30:35 46
Wait for Web service to spin up, aka alert me when the server stops returning a 503
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while curl -dsL example.com 2>&1 | grep 503;do sleep 8;done;echo server up

emile · 2013-07-10 19:03:25 6
kworker issue. Phase 2. Clobbering the interrupt that is problematic

change gpeXX by the culprit you discovered on phase 1 In case of this example, the culprit is the biggest number, ie, gpe1C /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ff_gbl_lock: 0 enabled /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe01: 0 enabled /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe06: 0 enabled /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe17: 2 enabled /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe18: 0 enabled /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe1C: 19 enabled This procedure,if solved this universal issue all linix distros are experimenting for more than 2 years, may be included at startup, via cron. But try first commandline.
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echo "disable" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpeXX

m33600 · 2013-07-16 03:53:20 7
urldecoding

Using PHP shell to URL decode a string. Show Sample Output
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```
q werty=/;
```
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echo "q+werty%3D%2F%3B" | php -r "echo urldecode(file_get_contents('php://stdin'));"

kartikssj · 2013-07-17 11:37:36 23
Convert Canon CR2 raw pictures to JPG

This command takes all CR2 files in the current directory and convert them into JPG
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for i in *.CR2; do dcraw -c -a -h $i | ppmtojpeg > `basename $i CR2`JPG; echo $i done; done

optyler · 2013-07-25 14:58:15 5
convert flac files to mp3 files into subdir mp3

Set variable 'input' to a set of flac files.
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); input="/my/input/dir/*.flac"; mkdir -p $(dirname $f)/mp3; for f in $input; do ffmpeg -i $f -ab 196k -ac 2 -ar 48000 $(dirname $f)/mp3/$(basename "${f:0:${#f}-4}mp3"); done

marminthibaut · 2013-08-02 19:45:38 7
Do Google search from the shell, opening into Chromium or a new Firefox tab if not installed.

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```
$ google 
Usage: google "[seach term]"
$ google test
Created new window in existing browser session.
```
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google() { gg="https://www.google.com/search?q=";q="";if [[ $1 ]]; then for arg in "$@" ; do q="$q+$arg"; done ; if [[ -f /usr/bin/chromium ]]; then chromium "$gg"$q; else firefox -new-tab "$gg"$q; fi else echo 'Usage: google "[seach term]"'; fi }

LenuX · 2013-08-08 14:34:09 7
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port scan using parallel

It takes over 5 seconds to scan a single port on a single host using nmap $ time (nmap -p 80 192.168.1.1 &> /dev/null) real 0m5.109s user 0m0.102s sys 0m0.004s It took netcat about 2.5 minutes to scan port 80 on the class C $ time (for NUM in {1..255} ; do nc -w 1 -z -v 192.168.1.${NUM} 80 ; done &> /dev/null) real 2m28.651s user 0m0.136s sys 0m0.341s Using parallel, I am able to scan port 80 on the entire class C in under 2 seconds $ time (seq 1 255 | parallel -j255 'nc -w 1 -z -v 192.168.1.{} 80' &> /dev/null) real 0m1.957s user 0m0.457s sys 0m0.994s

Find top 10 largest files in /var directory (subdirectories and hidden files included )

Should work even when very large files exist.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

archive all files containing local changes (svn)

Create a tgz archive of all the files containing local changes relative to a subversion repository. Add the '-q' option to only include files under version control: $svn st -q | cut -c 8- | sed 's/^/\"/;s/$/\"/' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz Useful if you are not able to commit yet but want to create a quick backup of your work. Of course if you find yourself needing this it's probably a sign you should be using a branch, patches or distributed version control (git, mercurial, etc..)

zgrep across multiple files

Sort the size usage of a directory tree by gigabytes, kilobytes, megabytes, then bytes.

Probably only works with GNU du and modern perls.

Calculate the mean or average of a single column of numbers in a text file

single-column-numbers.txt is a text file with 22658 rows (numbers) in a single column. Each number can range from 0 to 134298679.533591 and the dot is for the decimals. This is done with perl because awk can't sum such high numbers.

Broadcast your shell thru ports 5000, 5001, 5002 ...

run 'nc yourip 5000', 'nc yourip 5001' or 'nc yourip 5002' elsewhere will produce an exact same mirror of your shell. This is handy when you want to show someone else some amazing stuff in your shell without giving them control over it.

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"

Undo commit in Mercurial

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