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Matched string reference in replacement text

Use matched data and some other as replacement data Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo "abcde" | sed 's/./& /g'
a b c d e 
```
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echo "abcde" | sed 's/./& /g'

totti · 2011-08-26 16:54:26 7
Get duration of an audio file in seconds.
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get_duration () { IFS=.: read -r _ h m s _ < <(ffmpeg -i "$1" 2>&1 | grep Duration);echo $(( h * 3600 + m * 60 + s )); }

RanyAlbeg · 2011-08-28 15:02:42 5
create file

enter our information on the content file. Show Sample Output
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```
empty
```
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FILE=$(tempfile 2>/dev/null || echo .$RANDOM)

s123iva · 2011-08-31 10:39:11 3
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word passphrase (fast) w/o apostrophes

Fast and excludes words with apostrophes. For ubuntu, you can use wamerican or wbritish dictionaries, installable through aptitude. Show Sample Output
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```
speculation crazies sox heftier
restfuller geneticists overdo Georgina
chaises masseur procurer grab
```
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echo $(cat /usr/share/dict/words |grep -v "'"|shuf -n4)

d1v3rdown · 2011-08-31 12:48:14 3
Displays All TCP and UDP Connections
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sudo netstat|head -n2|tail -n1 && sudo netstat -a|grep udp && echo && sudo netstat|head -n2|tail -n1 && sudo netstat -a|grep tcp

brando56894 · 2011-09-08 18:54:36 3
Hunt for the newest file.
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fn=$(find . -type f -printf "%T@\t%p\n"|sort -n|tail -1|cut -f2); echo $(date -r "$fn") "$fn"

tzot · 2011-09-13 14:26:20 3
Remove the last string character using rev and cut

In case sed and awk are not available you may use this to remove the last character from a string with "rev" and "cut". Show Sample Output
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```
command line
```
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echo "command lines" | rev | cut -c 2- | rev

ztank1013 · 2011-09-21 11:27:52 6
Adding kernel boot parameters after loading kernel and initrd

Then exit from the shell. exit some time need to exit twice exit exit Now the OS will boot with the new parameters.
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echo "root=/dev/sda7" > /proc/param.conf

totti · 2011-09-27 18:06:53 5
Copy your ssh public key to a server from a machine that doesn't have ssh-copy-id

Creates the .ssh directory on the remote host with proper permissions, if it doesnt exist. Appends your public key to authorized_keys, and verifies it has proper permissions. (if it didnt exist it may have been created with undesireable permissions). *Korn shell syntax, may or may not work with bash
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ssh <user>@<host> 'mkdir -m 700 ~/.ssh; echo ' $(< ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) ' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ; chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Halki · 2011-10-03 15:59:43 3
Unmount all CIFS drives

Unmounts all CIFS-based network drives. Very nice for shutting down network mounts on a Linux laptop just prior to going to sleep. Show Sample Output
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```
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/G... [DONE]
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/H... [DONE]
UNMOUNTING /home/danf/gmounts/N... [DONE]
```
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for D in `mount -lt cifs | sed 's/.*on $\/.\+$ type.*/\1/'`; do echo -n "UNMOUNTING $D..."; sudo umount $D; echo " [DONE]"; done;

crazedsanity · 2011-10-19 18:14:19 4
Displays what shell you are using.
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echo $0

defiantredpill · 2011-10-20 18:10:23 3

view all console fonts

Testing in a TTY terminal , not emulator . Show Sample Output

#!/bin/bash cd /usr/share/consolefonts/; for i in * ; do setfont; echo "testing >> $i << font" ; setfont $i ; showconsolefont ; sleep 5 ; clear ; done

ambagasdowa · 2011-10-25 01:14:48 7

Prevent command history file from being overwritten by multiple shell sessions.

Takes effect immediately.
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echo "shopt -s histappend" >> ~/.bashrc ; . ~/.bashrc

dhart · 2011-11-03 09:57:18 3
Knowing when a machine is turned on
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date -d @$(echo $(($(date +%s)-$(cat /proc/uptime|cut -d. -f1))))

RuizTapiador · 2011-11-04 12:58:27 4
display list of files in a directory sorted by amount of lines different with original.txt.
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for f in $(ls -A ./dir); do echo -n $f && diff original.txt ./dir/$f | wc -l ; done | perl -ne 'my $h={}; while (<>) { chomp; if (/^(\S+?)\s*(\d+?)$/){$h->{$1}=$2;} }; for my $k (sort { $h->{$a} $h->{$b} } keys %$h ){ print "$k\t$h->{$k}\n"}'

1vq9 · 2011-11-15 06:02:12 3
Remove the first and the latest caracter of a string

Just an other solution :)
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echo foobar | sed -r 's/(^.|.$)//g'

ebraminio · 2011-11-19 16:19:07 3
Remove dashes in UUID

Remove the dashes from a UUID using bash search and replace. Show Sample Output
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```
63b726a04c5945e4af65bced5d268456
```
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UUID="63b726a0-4c59-45e4-af65-bced5d268456"; echo ${UUID//-/}

flatcap · 2011-11-22 22:49:30 103
encrypt sensitive image using password

Do not use JPEG, GIF, or any other 'lossy' image encoding with Encryption
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read -s PASS; echo $PASS | convert sensitive.jpg -encipher - -depth 8 png24:hidden.png

kev · 2011-11-25 18:15:23 11
histogram of file size

Log scaled histogram so that you can see large files even if there is a single HUGE file in the directory. Also makes sure the histogram is fullscreen for best chance of readable file names.
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gnuplot -p <(echo "set terminal wxt size `xrandr|grep -P '\s{3}(\d+x\d+).*\+$'|tr -s ' ' '\t'|cut -f2|sort -n|tail -n1|tr 'x' ','`; set logscale y; set style data hist; set xtic rot by -90; plot '<(stat -c \"%n %s\" *)' u 2:xtic(1)")

MattOates · 2011-11-30 15:14:40 3
check a list of domains registered on godaddy

Found on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55520.0
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for i in `wget -O url|grep '<a rel="nofollow"'|grep http|sed 's|.*<a rel="nofollow" class="[^"]\+" href="[^"]*https\?://$[^/]\+$[^"]*">[^<]\+</a>.*|\1|'`;do if test -n "$(whois $i|grep -i godaddy)";then echo $i uses GoDaddy;fi;sleep 20;done

coinbitsdotcom · 2011-12-24 19:12:18 5
Get Public IP Address from command line

Check your IP address using www.whatismyip.org from the command line
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echo `wget -q -O - http://www.whatismyip.org`

godmachine81 · 2011-12-31 01:37:33 3
Decode \x{ABCD}-style Unicode escape sequences

This is especially useful to get crazy stuff like space characters copied to your pasteboard correctly. Source: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions Show Sample Output
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```
$ unidecode "\x{1D306}"
&#119558;
$ unidecode "\x{00A9}\x{2122}\x{00AE}"
???
```
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perl -e "binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8'); print \"$@\""; echo # newline

mathias · 2012-01-02 10:34:51 6
Fast way to get the product of every number in a file
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(sed 's/^/x*=/' file ; echo x) | bc

fallen3angel · 2012-01-03 13:45:25 3
Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Remove ANSI colors from stream or file
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sed -r 's/'$(echo -e "\033")'\[[0-9]{1,2}(;([0-9]{1,2})?)?[mK]//g'

frntn · 2012-01-04 20:57:09 5
Delimiter Hunting

Scan a file and print out a list of ASCII characters that are not used in the file which can then be safely used to delimit fields. Useful when needing to convert CSV files using "," to a single character delimiter. Piping it into less at the end (which could be redundant) stops the command characters being interpreted by the terminal.
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for i in `seq 0 9` A B C D E F; do for j in `seq 0 9` A B C D E F; do HEX=\$\'\\x${i}${j}\'; if ! eval grep -qF "$HEX" file; then eval echo $HEX \\x${i}${j}; fi; done; done 2> /dev/null | less

moogmusic · 2012-01-05 10:09:07 28
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Create a pdf version of a manpage

Quick and dirty version. I made a version that checks if a manpage exists (but it's not a oneliner). You must have ps2pdf and of course Ghostscript installed in your box. Enhancements appreciated :-)

Reload all sysctl variables without reboot

Reload all defined kernel variables from /etc/sysctl.conf(if no parameter after -p is given) without the old myth "Ah, you'll need to reboot to apply those variables"...

Make ISO image of a folder

Create ISO image of a folder in Linux. You can assign label to ISO image and mount correctly with -allow-lowercase option.

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"

Extract android adb ab backup to tar format (only works for non encrypted backups)

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"

Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems

also search with aptitude search '~c'

convert a pdf to jpeg

Converts a .pdf to .jpg . should work with jpeg | tiff | png | gif | jp2 | pict | bmp | qtif | psd | sgi | tga

Big (four-byte) $RANDOM

Sometimes, in a shell script, you need a random number bigger than the range of $RANDOM. This will print a random number made of four hex values extracted from /dev/urandom.

drop first column of output by piping to this

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