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Remount all NFS mounts on a host

`mount -o remount` doesn't pick up new NFS options (eg. timeo, soft, retrans, etc) so you need to do a full mount/remount cycle. This one-liner makes it quick and easy :) Update your fstab with the new options, then run it. Show Sample Output
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```
/mnt/foo
ok :)
/mnt/bar
ok :)
```
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for P in $(mount | awk '/type nfs / {print $3;}'); do echo $P; sudo umount $P && sudo mount $P && echo "ok :)"; done

amatix · 2012-10-14 22:39:58 4
Display EPOCH time in human readable format using AWK.
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echo 1268727836 | awk '{print strftime("%c",$1)}'

omatictost · 2012-10-25 15:39:08 5
Print a single character from a string with AWK.
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echo "abcdefg"|awk 'BEGIN {FS="''"} {print $2}'

omatictost · 2012-10-25 16:12:28 11
Sort I/O activity by PID number.
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for i in $(ps -eo pid|grep -v PID);do echo ""; echo -n "==$i== ";awk '/^read|^write/{ORS=" "; print}' /proc/$i/io 2>/dev/null; echo -n " ==$i=="; done|sort -nrk5|awk '{printf "%s\n%s %s\n%s %s\n%s\n\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6}'

omatictost · 2012-10-25 17:16:24 4
Pipe system log to espeak
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tail -f /var/log/messages.log | while read line ; do echo $line | cut -d \ -f5- | sed s/\\[[0-9]*\\]// | espeak ; done

asdfkajsdfh · 2012-10-27 23:00:53 4
Java app with dynamic classpath

Lauching an app including jars in an adjacent lib folder to its classpath
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java -jar app.jar -cp $(echo lib/*.jar | tr ' ' ':')

xymor · 2012-10-29 12:51:46 16
Grep through zip files

for file in `ls -t \`find . -name "*.zip" -type f\``; do found=`unzip -c "$file" | grep --color=always "PATTERN"`; if [[ $found ]]; then echo -e "${file}\n${found}\n"; fi done
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for file in `ls -t \`find . -name "*.zip" -type f\``; do found=`unzip -c "$file" | grep --color=always "PATTERN"`; if [[ $found ]]; then echo -e "${file}\n${found}\n"; fi done

vladfr · 2012-11-12 15:43:15 4
Screenshot in $1 seconds, upload and retrieve URI from ompdlr.org

Take a screenshot, give $1 seconds pause to choose what to screenshot, then upload and get URI of post in ompdlr.org Show Sample Output
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```
$ scrotit(){ echo "Screenshot in $1 seconds...";scrot -d $1 '%Y%m%d%h.png' -e 'curl -sF file1=@- http://ompldr.org/upload < $f | grep -P -o "(?<=File:).*(http://ompldr.org/.*)\<\/a\>";rm $f'| sed -r 's@.*(http://ompldr.org/\w{1,7}).*@\1@';}
$ scrotit 5
Sreenshot in 5 seconds...
http://ompldr.org/vZ2pqaQ
$
```
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scrotit(){ echo "Screenshot in $1 seconds...";scrot -d $1 '%Y%m%d%h.png' -e 'curl -sF file1=@- http://ompldr.org/upload < $f | grep -P -o "(?<=File:).*(http://ompldr.org/.*)\<\/a\>";rm $f'| sed -r 's@.*(http://ompldr.org/\w{1,7}).*@\1@';}

dzup · 2012-12-03 01:21:19 4
Returns top ten (sub)directories with the highest number of files

A lot of files in one dir is not so cool for filesystem.
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find . -type d | while read dir ; do num=`ls -l $dir | grep '^-' | wc -l` ; echo "$num $dir" ; done | sort -rnk1 | head

stderr · 2012-12-13 13:13:16 9
Displays mpd playing status in the terminal first raw

Actually this is a shorter version that fits the 255 chars limit of this resource. The full version shows status in the right top corner: alias mpdd='while sleep 1; do _r=$(awk '\''BEGIN{FS=": "}/^Artist:/{r=r""$2};/^Title:/{r=r" - "$2};/^time:/{r=$2" "r};/^state: play/{f=1}END{if(f==1){print r}}'\'' <(mpc status;mpc currentsong));_l=${#_r};[ $_l -eq 0 ] && continue;[ -z "$_p" ] && _p=$_l;echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;${_p}H\e[K\e[u";_p=$((COLUMNS - _l));echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;${_p}H\e[K\e[0;44m\e[1;33m${_r}\e[0m\e[u";done &' mpc is defined like this: function mpc() { echo "$*" | nc 192.168.1.1 6600 } Show Sample Output
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```
132:245 Front 242 - 7Rain [GHost]
```
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while sleep 1; do (mpc status;mpc currentsong)|awk 'BEGIN{FS=": "}/^Artist:/{r=r""$2};/^Title:/{r=r" - "$2};/^time:/{r=$2" "r};/^state: play/{f=1}END{if(f==1){print r}}'|echo -ne "\e[s\e[0;0H\e[K\e[0;44m\e[1;33m$(cat -)\e[0m\e[u";done &

ichbins · 2012-12-24 18:03:29 8
Useless fun

Something I pulled off 4chan, it plays a tune.
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echo "main(i){for(i=0;;i++)putchar(((i*(i>>8|i>>9)&46&i >>8))^(i&i>>13|i>>6));}" | gcc -x c - && ./a.out | aplay

r0nd0n · 2013-01-09 21:48:23 6
quick and easy way of validating a date format of yyyy-mm-dd and returning a boolean

On CentOS at least, date returns a boolean for the common date string formats, including YYYY-MM-DD. In the sample output, you can see various invalid dates returning 0 whereas a simple regex check would return 1 for the invalid dates. -d, --date=STRING display time described by STRING, not `now' The version of date on OS X does not appear to have this same option. Show Sample Output
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```
# if date -d 2006-10-10 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi
1

# if date -d 2006-40-10 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi
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# if date -d 2006-13-10 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi
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# if date -d 2006-11-31 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi
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```
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if date -d 2006-10-10 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi

SteveGoossens · 2013-01-10 10:35:15 7
Change owner ship of files from 1003 to android under current directory recursively. 1003/android could be customized.
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find . | while read line; do test `stat -c %u $line` -eq 1003 && chown android:android $line && echo $line; done

changyuheng · 2013-01-12 10:47:25 7
Locate command for MAC OSX

MAC OSX doesn't come with a locate command, This will do the same thing as the locate command on a typical Linux OS. Simply add it to your ~/.bash_profile
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alias locate='if [ $((`date +%s`-`eval $(stat -s /var/db/locate.database); echo $st_mtime`)) -gt 3600 ]; then echo "locate: db is too old!">/dev/stderr; sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb; fi; locate -i'

jhyland87 · 2013-01-21 17:45:50 4
The letter your commands most often start with

Kind of fun if you're that was inclined. I figured most of my commands start with s. sudo, screen, ssh etc. This script tells me what else they start with. Show Sample Output
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```
685 s
255 g
251 c
193 l
130 p
83 n
81 m
70 r
56 d
24 u
23 a
22 t
14 i
14 h
13 f
11 o
7 e
4 w
4 v
4 j
3 k
3 b
1 x
0 z
0 y
0 q
```
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for i in {a..z}; do echo $(cat ~/.bash_history | grep ^$i.* | wc -l) $i; done | sort -n -r

yaMatt · 2013-01-23 18:59:13 4
Clear RAM cache
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su -c 'sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'

xmuda · 2013-01-23 22:18:45 7
shows whether your CPU supports 64bit mode

it shows whether your CPU supports 64 bit (x86-64) mode. uname -a only shows whether you have 64 bit (x86-64) or 32bit (i386) OS installed, this one-liner answers question: Can I install 64bit OS on this machine?
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grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo; [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo '64bit supported'

mzet · 2013-01-24 21:41:56 4
Extract text from all PDFs in curdir & subdirs to new files named as source+.txt, linux only.

Linux users wanting to extract text from PDF files in the current directory and its sub-directories can use this command. It requires "bash", "ps2ascii" and "par", and the PARINIT environment variable sanely set (see man par). WARNING: the file "junk.sh" will be created, run, and destroyed in the current directory, so you _must_ have sufficient rights. Edit the command if you need to avoid using the file name "junk.sh"
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echo '#!/bin/bash' > junk.sh ; find . -iname *.pdf -type f -printf \p\s\2\a\s\c\i\i\ \"%p\"\ \ \"%p\.\t\x\u\"\;\ \p\a\r\ \<\"%p\.\t\x\u\"\ \>\"%p\.\t\x\t\"\ \;\ \r\m\ \"%p\.\t\x\u\"\ \\n >>junk.sh; chmod 766 junk.sh; ./junk.sh ; rm junk.sh

p0g0 · 2013-01-27 21:29:08 176
When using mkvirtualenv, make the current directory your base and cd into that directory every time you workon that project

for use with virtualenvwrapper http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/
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echo 'echo "cd `pwd`" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postactivate' >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/../postmkvirtualenv

davidcollen · 2013-01-28 19:50:41 5
For Loop in DOS Batch File

You can implement a FOR loop to act on one or more files returned from the IN clause. We originally found this in order to GPG decrypt a file using wildcards (where you don't know exactly the entire file name, i.e.: Test_File_??????.txt, where ?????? = the current time in HHMMSS format). Since we won't know the time the file was generated, we need to use wildcards. And as a result of GPG not handling wildcards, this is the perfect solution. Thought I would share this revelation. :-) Show Sample Output
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```
file C:\Windows\bfsvc.exe
file C:\Windows\bootstat.dat
file C:\Windows\DtcInstall.log
file C:\Windows\EnterpriseN.xml
file C:\Windows\explorer.exe
file C:\Windows\fveupdate.exe
file C:\Windows\HelpPane.exe
file C:\Windows\hh.exe
file C:\Windows\HPMProp.INI
file C:\Windows\IE9_main.log
file C:\Windows\iis7.log
file C:\Windows\ISMIF32.dll

Press any key to continue . . .
```
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FOR %%c in (C:\Windows\*.*) DO (echo file %%c)

jmcclosk · 2013-01-31 15:19:54 10
One liner to show a notification on Desktop in case the load exceeds 1.

I run this via crontab every one minute on my machine occasionally to see if a process is eating up my system's resources.
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load=`uptime|awk -F',' '{print $3}'|awk '{print $3}'`; if [[ $(echo "if ($load > 1.0) 1 else 0" | bc) -eq 1 ]]; then notify-send "Load $load";fi

adimania · 2013-02-06 08:30:24 5
private mode for (bash) shell

same as "unset HISTFILE" - but the advantage is that you can "tab-complete" it and when you do, you won't mistype it (which could lead to not unsetting the HISTFILE). put the alias in the ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc file in your users home directory, respawn, enjoy! :) Show Sample Output
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```
[*] private mode activated.
```
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alias private_mode='unset HISTFILE && echo -e "\033[1m[\033[0m\033[4m*\033[0m\033[1m] \033[0m\033[4mprivate mode activated.\033[0m"'

s__ · 2013-02-17 00:03:37 3
Check if *hardware* is 32bit or 64bit

Avoids cat abuse ;)
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grep " lm " /proc/cpuinfo > /dev/null && echo "64-bit" || echo "32-bit"

MrCode · 2013-02-19 21:40:44 4
Delete all files in folder without affecting load

While `echo rm * | batch` might seem to work, it might still raise the load of the system since `rm` will be _started_ when the load is low, but run for a long time. My proposed command executes a new `rm` execution once every minute when the load is small. Obviously, load could also be lower using `ionice`, but I still think this is a useful example for sequential batch jobs. Show Sample Output
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```
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 40 at Fri Mar  1 16:07:00 2013
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 41 at Fri Mar  1 16:07:00 2013
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 42 at Fri Mar  1 16:07:00 2013
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 43 at Fri Mar  1 16:07:00 2013
```
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find . -type f -exec echo echo rm {} '|' batch ';'|bash

Ztyx · 2013-03-01 15:14:08 5
make a bunch of files based on a template file

make a bunch of files with the same permissions, owner, group, and content as a template file (handy if you have much to do w. .php, .html files or alike)
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echo "template file: ";read tpl;echo "new file(s separated w. space):"; read fl;touch $fl;find $fl -exec cp -ap $tpl "{}" \;

knoppix5 · 2013-03-08 10:00:36 6
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