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Convert control codes to visible Unicode Control Pictures

Not better, but more lightweight (sed instead of perl). Above command is reduced due to length restriction of less than 256 characters and entity encoding of "Save" command on this page. This is complete command (best without entity encoding): echo -e '\x2Helo folks\t!\r' | sed "y/\x0\x1\x2\x3\x4\x5\x6\x7\x8\x9\xA\xB\xC\xD\xE\xF\x10\x11\x12\x13\x14\x15\x16\x17\x18\x19\x1A\x1B\x1C\x1D\x1E\x1F\x20/␀␁␂␃␄␅␆␇␈␉␊␋␌␍␎␏␐␑␒␓␔␕␖␗␘␙␚␛␜␝␞␟␠/" ␂Helo␠folks␉!␍ Show Sample Output
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```
&#9218;Helo&#9248;folks&#9225;!&#9229;
```
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echo -e '\x2Hello, folks\t!\r' | sed "y/\x2\x9\xD\x20/␂␉␍␠/"

hermannsw · 2014-06-30 14:42:15 7
Btrfs: Find file names with checksum errors

btrfs checksum errors console report. Show Sample Output
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```
btrfs checksum error(s) on: 
         dev /dev/sda5, path: lib/mysql/ib_logfile0
         dev /dev/sda5, path: lib/mysql/ibdata1
         dev /dev/sda5, path: log/warn
```
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echo "btrfs checksum error(s) on: " && grep "btrfs: checksum error at logical" /var/log/messages | sed -e 's/^.*$ dev .*$$, sector.*$$path\: .*$)/\t\1, \3/' | sort | uniq

jcoll · 2014-07-01 08:56:05 7
SSH/wmic to remotely kill a process on a windows box

Tested on Windows 8 w/SSH, Cygwin - it can be tricky to quote if you dont use the $(..) syntax to echo it back out Show Sample Output
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```
Deleting instance \\YOUR-PC\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_Process.Handle="4824"
Instance deletion successful.
```
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ssh <user>@<ip address> $(echo wmic process where \"name like \'%<process to kill>%\'\" delete)

adanisch · 2014-07-02 04:41:05 6
Git autocomplete

Downloads this raw script https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash from Github, copies it to your home directory, autoloads it in ~/.bashrc and sources it.
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash; mv git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.bash; echo "source ~/.git-completion.bash" > ~/.bashrc; source ~/.git-completion.bash

servel333 · 2014-07-22 14:21:00 21
generate a uuid

piped this to pbcopy (OSX only) you got a uuid in the pasteboard Show Sample Output
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```
bcb6256f-75f2-4d3b-936e-4d86b29c6a24
```
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echo "import uuid\nimport sys\nsys.stdout.write(str(uuid.uuid4()))" | python

tippy · 2014-07-23 07:43:01 8
Change directory for current path (in bash)

change the path where you are, when is executed, is usefule when you've got folders to classify something like a tags, you've got devel/dist, android/ios, etc. like: ~user/Documents/devel/project ~user/Documents/dist/project You can change between devel/project folder to dist/project without leave project. If somebody has a better idea to do that without replace command. Show Sample Output
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```
/home/user/Documents/devel -> /home/user/Documents/dist
```
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changeFolder() { if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then echo "Usage: changeFolder old new"; return; fi; old=$(pwd); folder=$(echo "$old" | sed -e "s/$1/$2/g"); if [ ! -d "$folder" ]; then echo "Folder '$folder' not found."; return; fi; echo "$old -> $folder"; cd $folder;}

Dracks · 2014-07-29 15:36:32 7
Check CRL expiration time

Downloads a CRL file, determines the expiration time, and checks when it will expire Show Sample Output
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```
OK
```
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[ `curl 'http://crl.godaddy.com/gds5-16.crl' 2>/dev/null | openssl crl -inform DER -noout -nextupdate | awk -F= '{print $2}' | xargs -I{} date -d {} +%s` -gt `date -d '8 hours' +%s` ] && echo "OK" || echo "Expires soon"

hufman · 2014-08-07 17:18:38 8
Update music info with public database data

echoprint identify your song, then return artist, song name and album name(release) in a JSON. jq parse it and mp3info set the data in your mp3 file. of course it depends on: mp3info jq echoprint You need to set the environment variable export CODEGEN_NEST_API_KEY='YOUR_ECHONEST_KEY_HERE' You can use it with find, but probably will bypass the 120 request/minute of developer account key. So, use a sleep to do it. Something like: find -name \*.mp3 | while read $f; do eval echo $(echoprint-codegen "$f" | jq ' .[0].metadata | "mp3info -a \"" + .artist + "\" -t \"" + .title + "\" -l \"" + .release + "\" \"" + .filename + "\"" ' ) | bash; sleep 1; done
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eval echo $(echoprint-codegen "/path/to/file.mp3"| jq ' .[0].metadata | "mp3info -a \"" + .artist + "\" -t \"" + .title + "\" -l \"" + .release + "\" \"" + .filename + "\"" ' ) | bash

glaudiston · 2014-08-08 21:14:53 8
Turn on NFS Debugging

echo 1 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug && tail -f /var/log/messages to debug NFS issues.
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echo 1 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug

harpo · 2014-08-12 14:40:55 9
check web site status
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if [ "`curl -s --head domain.tld | grep HTTP | cut -d" " -f2`" != "200" ];then echo "error"; echo "doing else" ;fi

sckn · 2014-08-15 06:28:46 8
bored of the waiting for moderation
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echo "bored of the awaiting moderation"

teraflops · 2014-08-19 01:22:31 8
Check if a process is running (Windows)

There are many ways to do it on *nix. But on Windows, it's a bit convoluted. I use the above command expression in a batch file to check if a process is running already before running it again. I use this is a batch file I created to switch between 2 different versions of PowerBuilder (PB). I wanted to make sure, one version of PB is not running, before letting the user to switch, hence this check. (replace notepad.exe with PB125.exe above). /nh means no header, /fi means filter. We are filtering for Notepad.exe only above. Then, we take that and look for Notepad.exe using a FindStr command. It will still work, even if we don't have those 2 flags, but it makes finding the right program quicker. && and || are part of the conditional expressions see here: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/condexec.php. We use these to print for the IF...ELSE condition. >nul is the equivalent of Unix /dev/null Rest is self explanatory, I think. Show Sample Output
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```
Notepad is running
```
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tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq notepad.exe" | findstr /i "notepad.exe" >nul && (echo Notepad is running)|| (Echo Notepad is not running)

unixmonkey80767 · 2014-08-22 00:52:19 12
List Canon CR2 raw files which have been in-camera rated (5Dmk3+)
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for I in *.CR2; do if [ `exiv2 pr -p a -u $I | grep 'xmp.Rating' | awk '{ print $4 }'` == "1" ]; then echo $I; fi; done

jbuchbinder · 2014-09-10 03:31:44 8
10 files backup rotate in crontab

this command can be added to crontab so as to execute a nightly backup of directories and store only the 10 last backup files.
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for file in $(find /var/backup -name "backup*" -type f |sort -r | tail -n +10); do rm -f $file; done ; tar czf /var/backup/backup-system-$(date "+\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M-\%N").tgz --exclude /home/dummy /etc /home /opt 2>&- && echo "system backup ok"

akiuni · 2014-09-24 14:04:11 10
Resource Monitoring

Monitoring system in one line : DISK : disk space MEM: memory ( mem , swap, Total) CPU : all information about cpu activity LOAD : load average Show Sample Output
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```
DISK:
94% /
6% /boot
0% /dev/shm
MEM:
total used free shared
Mem: 7983 7580 403
Swap: 12287 6 12281
Total: 20271 7586 12685
CPU:
0.3%us, 0.2%sy, 0.1%ni, 98.2%id, 1.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
LOAD:
0.02 0.03 0.00 1/417 15018
```
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echo "DISK:";df -Pl | grep -v "Filesystem" | awk '{print $5,$6}' ; echo "MEM:" ; free -mto | awk '{ print $1,$2,$3,$4 }'; echo "CPU:"; top -b -d1 -n1 | grep Cpu | awk '{print $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9}';echo "LOAD:"; cat /proc/loadavg

injez · 2014-09-29 12:43:52 35
Print out which hosts are not running specific process

Given a hosts list, ssh one by one and echo its name only if 'processname' is not running. Show Sample Output
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```
hostone
hosttwo
hostthree
```
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for i in `cat hosts_list`; do RES=`ssh myusername@${i} "ps -ef " |awk '/[p]rocessname/ {print $2}'`; test "x${RES}" = "x" && echo $i; done

arlequin · 2014-10-03 14:57:54 9
Install every (not already installed) component of the Google Cloud SDK

Google Cloud SDK comes with a package manager `gcloud components` but it needs a bit of `sed` to work. Modify the "^| Not" bit to change the package selection. (The gcloud --format option is currently broken) Show Sample Output
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```
gcloud components update pkg-go pkg-java pkg-python app gae-python-launcher-mac gae-go gae-java gae-python
```
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gcloud components list | grep "^| Not" | sed "s/|$.*$|$.*$|$.*$|/\2/" | xargs echo gcloud components update

wires · 2014-10-13 20:52:25 11
Get your external IP address

Easiest way to get the external IP address.
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echo $(wget http://ipecho.net/plain -q -O -)

KonKar · 2014-10-25 20:25:05 11
Equivalent to ifconfig -a in HPUX
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netstat -nr|egrep -v "Routing|Interface|lo0"|awk '{print $5}'|sort -u| while read l; do ifconfig $l ; echo " Station Addr: `lanscan -ia|grep "$l "|cut -d ' ' -f 1`" ; done

innominable · 2014-10-31 09:20:46 7
underscore to camelCase
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echo to_camel_case__variable | sed -r 's/(.)_+(.)/\1\U\2/g;s/^[a-z]/\U&/'

estani · 2014-11-05 13:23:01 8
relax with philosophy while taking a dig
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for i in `seq 1 100`; do echo "I think therefore I am" | espeak; done

marlboro · 2014-11-08 06:30:11 10
Create AUTH PLAIN string to test SMTP AUTH session
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authplain() { echo -n "AUTH PLAIN "; echo -n \\0$1\\0$2\\0 | base64; }

danky · 2014-11-26 15:24:08 8
Have a user generate an ssh key if it does not already exist and spit it in bold red to stdout
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if [ -e ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ] ; then echo $'\033[1;31m' ; cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ; echo $'\033[0m' ; else ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -t rsa -P ""; echo $'\033[1;31m' ; cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ; echo $'\033[0m'; fi

sdoradus · 2014-12-01 03:48:19 8
Transpose column to row
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echo `echo -e "a\nb\nv"`

bejelith · 2014-12-02 07:40:53 7
pip shortcut to download a package and append it to your requirement.txt file in that project folder
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pipi () {pip install $1 && echo $(pip freeze | grep -i $1) >> requirements.txt;}

jkatzer · 2014-12-02 20:55:48 9
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Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Change pidgin status

Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn't aware of purple-remote existence.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

history autocompletion with arrow keys

This will enable the possibility to navigate in the history of the command you type with the arrow keys, example "na" and the arrow will give all command starting by na in the history.You can add these lines to your .bashrc (without &&) to use that in your default terminal.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Alert visually until any key is pressed

I learned a few things reading this command. But I did run into a few issues: 1. On systems that don't use GNU echo (e.g. macOS 10.14.5 Mojave), the e option may not be supported. In this case ANSI escape codes will echoed as text and the terminal will not flash, like this: \e[?5h\e[38;5;1m A L E R T Thu Jun 20 16:31:29 PDT 2019 2. Since the read command strips\ignores leading backslashes, if a user types the backslash character once in the loop, it will not break. Typing backslash twice in a loop will break as expected. 3. The foreground color is set to red (\e[38;5;1m) on every loop. This could be set once before we call while, and then reset once when the loop breaks. 4. Instead of resetting the foreground color when it breaks, the video mode is set back to normal (\e[?5l). This has the effect of leaving the terminal text red until it is manually reset. The alternative I'm proposing here addresses these issues. I tested it on macOS and Arch Linux.

Send a local file via email

if "mail -a" fail, try "mutt -a" or "nail -a"

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Write a listing of all directories and files on the computer to a compressed file.

This command is meant to be used to make a lightweight backup, for when you want to know which files might be missing or changed, but you don't care about their contents (because you have some way to recover them). Explanation of parts: "ls -RFal /" lists all files in and below the root directory, along with their permissions and some other metadata. I think sudo is necessary to allow ls to read the metadata of certain files. "| gzip" compresses the result, from 177 MB to 16 MB in my case. "> all_files_list.txt.gz" saves the result to a file in the current directory called all_files_list.txt.gz. This name can be changed, of course.

grep expression (perl regex) to extract all ip addresses from both ip and ifconfig commands output

It uses the following GNU grep options: "-o" which shows only the matching part of the line and "-P" which allows the use of Perl regular expressions.

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