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Create a script of the last executed command

This one uses the history modificator :q to automatically quote previous command. It resolves the already in quotes and by using the single quote it prevents resolving variables on execution. Sample output omits the redirection to file to show the problem essence. Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo 'quoted'"output"
quotedoutput
$ echo !!:q
echo 'echo '\''quoted'\''"output"'
echo 'quoted'"output"
```
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echo !!:q > foo.sh

kudlaty01 · 2017-10-06 08:49:27 21
Encode string with NOTs
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echo -e 'import ctypes\nimport sys\nf="/etc/passwd"\nfor i in f:\n\tsys.stdout.write(hex(ctypes.c_uint8(~ord(i)).value)+",")\nsys.stdout.write("\\n")' | python

sinkmanu · 2017-10-12 11:19:05 19
Add Rudimentary Logging Levels According to STDOUT/STDERR

This is a bit of a bash hack to catch STDERR and append a log level to it. So for example, if your script has pseudo loglevels like so: echo "INFO - finding files" [ -f ${files} ] || echo "WARN - no files found" Any subcommands that write to STDERR will screw that up Adding 2> >(fb=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null | od -t o1 -A n); [ "$fb" ] && err=$(printf "\\${fb# }"; cat) && echo "ERROR - $err") to the command does the following: 2> Redirect STDERR >( Spawn a subshell (STDERR is then redirected to the file descriptor for this subshell) fb=$(....) get the first byte of input [ "$fb" ] test if there's a first byte && err=$(printf....) save the output to the $err variable && echo "ERROR - $err" append your pseudo loglevel and the error message Heavily borrowed from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33049/check-if-pipe-is-empty-and-run-a-command-on-the-data-if-it-isnt Show Sample Output
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```
INFO - finding files
ERROR - find: ?/folder/does/not/exist?: No such file or directory
```
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[command] 2> >(fb=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null | od -t o1 -A n); [ "$fb" ] && err=$(printf "\\${fb# }"; cat) && echo "ERROR - $err")

tyzbit · 2017-10-16 22:22:42 21
Show a clock in the upper right corner

This will use tput to place the command (date %T in this case) in the upper right corner of the terminal
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while sleep 1;do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-11));echo -e "\e[31m`date +%T`\e[39m";tput rc;done &

x3mboy · 2017-11-16 18:07:39 19
Find & remove files that are duplicates but with different extensions recursively

Very useful to get rid of backup files or wrong extension files that lure in your folders In this example first I do two searches for all filenames of the two extensions .jpg and .png, then delete the extension and only output the now duplicate files. I loop with these results and print a log and delete the file with the extension I dislike. Show Sample Output
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```
deleted: contrib/image/4legs/cat.png
deleted: contrib/image/4legs/dog.png
deleted: contrib/image/withwings/fly.png
```
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for f in `comm -1 -2 <(sort <(find contrib/image/ -name *.png | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')) <(sort <(find contrib/image/ -name *.jpg | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'))`;do rm "$f.png" && echo "deleted: $f.png";done

TheoNaciri · 2017-11-28 15:48:15 24
Random IPv4 address

the part after sed is optional. if you want, omit the last dot(.) yourself.
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for i in a b c d; do echo -n $(($RANDOM % 256)).; done | sed -e 's/\.$//g'

farooqkz · 2017-12-04 14:12:19 21
Count number of javascript files in subdirectories

I wanted to count and display the top directories containing JavaScript files in some of my project. Here it is. Maybe it can be written to more simply syntax by using find -exec...
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for f in `find . -type d`; do pushd . > /dev/null ; echo -e `cd $f ; find . -name \*\.js | wc -l` "\t" $f | grep -v ^0 ; popd >/dev/null; done | sort -n -k 1 -r | less

tobi · 2017-12-19 09:08:04 21
2 SSL get expiration date from remote site
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echo | openssl s_client -servername google.de -connect google.de:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -enddate

aysadk · 2017-12-22 11:09:17 20
Show public IPv4 and IPv6
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echo "IPv4: $(curl -s4 ip.appspot.com)" ; echo "IPv6: $(curl -s6 ip.appspot.com)"

pqatsi · 2017-12-26 12:52:38 19
repeat any string or char n times without spaces between

Use yes to repeat (it will continue until the pipe breaks) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_(Unix) head -n5 to repeat the piped command n times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(Unix) Show Sample Output
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```
+++++
```
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echo "$(yes '+' | head -n5)"

Artistan · 2017-12-31 19:12:23 21
repeat any string or char n times without spaces between

Using zsh parameter expansion Show Sample Output
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```
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
```
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echo ${(l:80::+:)}

rjf89 · 2018-01-04 18:34:16 20
check open network port with cat

Trying to check for an open port and missing netcat or nmap? This is the lowest common denominator way to verify a port is accessible from one server to another. This will give you a pretty quick return of 0 if it works. If it fails, it will just hang and takes awhile to timeout. I usually ctrl+c the command. "echo ?$" will give you an exit code other then 0 after you exit. Show Sample Output
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```
cat < /dev/null > /dev/tcp/www.msn.com/89; echo $?
cat < /dev/null > /dev/tcp/8.8.8.8/53; echo $?
```
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cat < /dev/null > /dev/tcp/<hostname or ip>/<port>; echo $?

pborowicz · 2018-02-14 15:51:51 36
In URL converts %XX to chars

Waits URL, then converts. Show Sample Output
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```
> https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F
> https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/&#1050;&#1089;&#1077;&#1085;&#1080;&#1103;
```
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read -p "> " URL; echo -e "> `echo $URL | sed 's|%|\\\\x|g'`"

bravikov · 2018-03-05 05:15:48 26

A line across the entire width of the terminal

Here is an alternative that support unicodes, using echo: It is using the \c flag, meaning no new line for the echo option -e. You can replace the = with any unicode character. Or to do the same into a PHP bash script: shell = system("tput cols"); for( $i= 0 ; $i < $shell ; $i++ ){ echo "█"; } Show Sample Output

for ((i=0; i<$(tput cols); i++)); do echo -e "=\c" ;done

K33st · 2018-03-19 19:37:02 28

Check the total memory usage of processes with a specific name

Get the total RESIDENT memory used by processes of a specific name. This means this is the MINIMUM used by a process, but some memory could be paged out to swap. Show Sample Output
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```
$ pids=$(pidof chrome); for p in ${pids[@]}; do cat /proc/$p/status | grep -i vmrss | awk '{print $2}'; done | while read m; do let t=$t+$m; echo $t; done | echo "$(tail -n 1) kB"
12613760 kB
```
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pids=$(pidof chrome); for p in ${pids[@]}; do cat /proc/$p/status | grep -i vmrss | awk '{print $2}'; done | while read m; do let t=$t+$m; echo $t; done | echo "$(tail -n 1) kB"

tyzbit · 2018-04-08 16:43:35 160
simple pomodoro
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while true; do sleep $((40 * 60)); echo "Fuck away for some time"; sleep $((3 * 60)); done &

dav23r · 2018-04-23 10:37:19 160
Count all [space][new line][space][new line] pattern using grep

Using to count all sentences in CoNLL data format
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echo $(( $(grep -c '^ $' file_name) / 2 ))

hiepdev · 2018-06-28 11:31:14 256
Add some text and the current date and time to a file

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```
This will output (without the quotes) "some text 2018-07-27_00:30:33" to /path/to/filename
```
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echo "some text `date +%Y-%m-%d\_%H:%M:%S`" >> /path/to/filename

test666v2 · 2018-07-26 23:44:49 267
Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Removed grep and simplified if statement. -- Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale. Show Sample Output
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```
2018-04-13 Friday the 13th
2018-07-13 Friday the 13th
2019-09-13 Friday the 13th
2019-12-13 Friday the 13th
2020-03-13 Friday the 13th
2020-11-13 Friday the 13th
2021-08-13 Friday the 13th
2022-05-13 Friday the 13th
2023-01-13 Friday the 13th
2023-10-13 Friday the 13th
2024-09-13 Friday the 13th
2024-12-13 Friday the 13th
2025-06-13 Friday the 13th
```
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for i in {2018..2025}-{01..12}-13; do [[ $(date --date $i "+%u") == 5 ]] && echo "$i Friday the 13th"; done

cpqlinux · 2018-07-30 15:54:24 312
Add a repo to pacman
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echo -e "\n[sublime-text]\nServer = https://download.sublimetext.com/arch/dev/x86_64" | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf

HaoZeke · 2018-08-13 07:30:55 305
Export all Stremio movie names

I couldn't find movie library on any of the SQLlite Stremio databases, but on ~/.config/stremio/backgrounds2 the background image filenames corresponds to IMDB URL. So I foreach files and wget HTML title of each movie and save it to a file. This will retrieve all movie names, not just the Library.
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time for movie in $(ls -1 $HOME/.config/stremio/backgrounds2 | sort -u);do echo "https://www.imdb.com/title/$movie/" | wget -qO- -O- -i- --header="Accept-Language: en" | hxclean | hxselect -s '\n' -c 'title' 2>/dev/null | tee -a ~/movie-list.txt ; done

pabloab · 2018-08-16 06:11:41 320
Pluralize user input

Pluralize a word, aka change from single to multiple; text formatting. echo hamburgler | pluralize Show Sample Output
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```
hamburglers
```
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pluralize() { if [ -n "$1" ]; then echo ${1}s else while read line; do pluralize $line done fi }

cryptology_codes · 2018-08-21 22:49:21 323
Disable Gradle daemon

Disabling Gradle daemon can sometimes improve build reliability.
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echo "org.gradle.daemon=false" >> ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

pkozelka · 2018-10-25 07:04:20 447
Count lines of the founded files
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echo "$(find ./ -name '*' -type f -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{print $1}' | tr '\n' '+' | sed s/+$//g)" | bc -l

jnana0812 · 2018-10-26 09:20:50 450

sched && syscall app state awareness basics

example or test, basic awareness on app state, mostly for copy-paste reasons, requires auditd (ausyscall), rekt echoing (everything here is rekt) Show Sample Output

pgrep -f bash | while read PMATCH;do echo "$PMATCH # $(grep -e nr_involuntary_switches /proc/$PMATCH/sched|tr -d '\040\011\012\015') # [sysc]:$(ausyscall $(cat /proc/$PMATCH/syscall|cut -d' ' -f1))"; done;

x0a · 2018-10-29 20:06:05 392

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Joins args together using the first arg as glue

Write comments to your history.

A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

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"

Symlink all files from a base directory to a target directory

Simple and easy to remember, if it already exists then it just ignores it.

speedtest

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List dot-files and dirs, but not . or ..

Format date/time string for a different day

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aptbackup restore

Use when aptbackup will not start or you just want to see what's going on.

Produce 10 copies of the same string

Merge files, joining each line in one line

Merge files, joining line by line horizontally. Very useful when you have a lot of files where each line represents an info about an event and you want to join them into a single file where each line has all the info about the same event See the example for a better understanding

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