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cd to (or operate on) a file across parallel directories

ksh's version of cd has an optional syntax where you can type "cd old new" and it will replace "old" with "new" in your current directory and take you there. This is very handy when you have a parallel directory structure, like source and object directories. As suggested, you can just type cd ${PWD/old/new} to get this in bash, but this function in your .bashrc will let you type the ksh cd syntax and avoid typing the special characters while preserving other cd functionality. Show Sample Output
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```
splante@guinness:/tmp/src/x/y/z/> cd src obj
splante@guinness:/tmp/obj/x/y/z/> cd obj src
splante@guinness:/tmp/src/x/y/z/> 
```
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cd () { cdop=""; while [ "$1" != "${1#-}" ]; do cdop="${cdop} ${1}"; shift; done; if [ $# -eq 2 ]; then newdir="${PWD/$1/$2}"; [ -d "${newdir}" ] || { echo "no ${newdir}"; return 1; }; builtin cd $cdop "${newdir}"; else builtin cd $cdop "$@"; fi }

splante · 2011-04-07 14:36:26 3
List your MACs address
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echo | ifconfig | grep HWaddr

malto · 2011-04-12 23:59:54 3
resolve hostname to IP our vice versa with less output

The host command comes with the bind-utils package, which is has a better chance to be installed than resolveip from mysql. The last word of the query result is displayed, which is the last result host got. This works with CNAMEs. You get "3(NXDOMAIN)" in case of failure. Show Sample Output
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192.0.32.10
```
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hostresult=$(host -t A www.example.com); echo "${hostresult##* }"

kilx · 2011-04-21 10:16:50 4
un-escape URL/URIs with Ruby
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echo 'example.com%2Fsome%2Fpath' | ruby -r'cgi' -e 'puts CGI.unescape(STDIN.read)'

slippyd · 2011-04-26 03:13:22 3
replace one of the octates of an IP

the numbers in the ip address are represented in sed as \1\2\3\4. If I put \1\2\3$i, then I change the last number. So for example to change the second number I'll do \1$i\3\4. Regards, Kfir Show Sample Output
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10.0.0.3
```
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i=3; echo 10.0.0.1 | sed "s/$[0-9]\{1,3\}\.$$[0-9]\{1,3\}\.$$[0-9]\{1,3\}\.$$[0-9]\{1,3\}$/\1\2\3$i/g"

kipibenkipod · 2011-04-27 14:08:02 3
print line and execute it in BASH

since we're repeating the command there after the semicolon, we only need one backtick Show Sample Output
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```
$ echo "ls"; `!#:0-$

echo "ls"; `echo "ls" ; `
ls
Android.mk  ardrv  devmgr  egl  file1
```
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$ echo "command"; `!#:0-$

unixmonkey20949 · 2011-04-28 17:09:25 3
Persistent saving of iptables rules

Should run with sudo
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cd /etc/network/if-up.d && iptables-save > firewall.conf && echo -e '#!/bin/sh -e\niptables-restore < $(dirname $0)/firewall.conf' > iptables && chmod a+x iptables

pkufranky · 2011-05-01 03:23:26 3
Create cheap and easy index.html file

Just to avoid link to itself
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F=index.html; for i in *; do [[ $i = $F ]] && continue; echo "<li><a href='$i'>$i</a>"; done >$F

frans · 2011-05-08 20:57:24 5
Display GCC Predefined Macros

another one
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echo | gcc -dM -E -

Byung · 2011-05-09 09:59:24 3
Show seconds since modified of newest modified file in directory
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FILE=`ls -ltr /var/lib/pgsql/backups/daily/ | tail -n1 | awk '{print $NF}'`; TIME=`stat -c %Y /var/lib/pgsql/backups/daily/$FILE`; NOW=`date +%s`; echo $((NOW-TIME))

allrightname · 2011-05-12 13:21:37 6
log rm commands

Sometimes, it is annoying to find your files or directories missing. If you want to log all the rm commands you can put this in /etc/profile.
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function rm { workingdir=$( pwdx $$ | awk '{print $2}' ) /usr/bin/rm $* echo "rm $* issued at $(date) by the user $(who am i| awk '{print $1} ') in the directory ${workingdir}" >> /tmp/rm.out }

soulonfire · 2011-06-22 14:47:38 21
Create a temp file

Another way to create temp files in your scripts, if tempfile fails, it will create a hidden local file in the current directory, don't forget to delete $FILE
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FILE=$(tempfile 2>/dev/null || echo .$RANDOM)

h3nr1x · 2011-06-22 15:12:21 3
Check if commands are available on your system
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for c in gcc bison dialog bc asdf; do if ! which $c >/dev/null; then echo Required program $c is missing ; exit 1; fi; done

Mozai · 2011-06-27 12:54:02 3
Discover unoptimized MySQL tables and optimize them.

Finds all tables that need optimising and loops through them, running optimise against them. This works server-wide, on all databases and tables.
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for table in $(echo "select concat(TABLE_SCHEMA, '.', TABLE_NAME) from information_schema.TABLES where TABLE_SCHEMA NOT IN ('information_schema','mysql') and Data_free > 0" | mysql --skip-column-names); do echo "optimize table ${table}" | mysql; done;

Xiol · 2011-06-28 21:09:57 4
print an 'hello world'
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echo 'hello world'

aykut · 2011-07-06 17:54:47 3
Find .java files with high complexity (counting curly braces)
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find src/ -name "*.java" | while read f; do echo -n "$f "; cat "$f" | tr -dc '{}'; echo; done | awk '{ print length($2), $1 }' | sort -n

mindsocket · 2011-07-21 01:25:31 8
split a string (2)
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read VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 <<< aa bb cc; echo $VAR2

h3xx · 2011-07-24 18:56:30 3
Create a QR code image in MECARD format

If your contact information was entered when your user account was created (it gets added to /etc/passwd) then this gets that info and creates a QR code for you automatically
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getent passwd $(whoami) | echo "$(perl -ne '/^([^:]+):[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+:([^ ]+) ?([^,]+)?,([^,]*),([^,]*),([^:,]*),?([^:,]*)/ and printf "MECARD:N:$3,$2;ADR:$5;TEL:$4;TEL:$6;EMAIL:$1@"')$HOSTNAME;;" | qrencode -o myqr.png

Strawp · 2011-07-25 12:59:57 3
progress bar for cp

Cleaner, but probably less portable. Works with bash4 and should also work on bash3. IIRC, $(()) and (()) are bashisms, not POSIX. Show Sample Output
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[========================================================>.............] 81%
```
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while [$((or_sz=$(stat -c %s "$1"))) -gt $((ds_sz=$(stat -c %s "$2")))];do ((pct=(69*$ds_sz)/$or_sz));echo -en "\r[";for ((i=1;i<=pct;i++));do echo -n "=";done;echo -n \>;for ((i=pct;i<=68;i++));do echo -n ".";done;echo -n "] $(((100*$pct)/69))%";done

ScriptFanix · 2011-07-29 17:41:56 3
See how many more processes are allowed, awesome!
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echo $(($(ulimit -u)-$(pgrep -u $USER|wc -l))

h3xx · 2011-07-30 05:03:36 3
Grep across a directory and open matching files in vim (one tab per file)

vim 7 required
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vim -p `grep -r PATTERN TARGET_DIR | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | xargs echo -n`

kovagoz · 2011-08-05 16:34:31 4
Check if your webserver supports gzip compression with curl
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if curl -s -I -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" http://example.com/ | grep 'Content-Encoding: gzip' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo Yes; else echo No;fi

rwky · 2011-08-16 21:48:14 3
Sum size of files returned from FIND

Just an alternative. Here the output of the subshell statement is a complete script for dc so you can save it, manipulate it with some other tool or just debug it with less.
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(echo 0; find [args...] -printf '%s +\n'; echo p) | dc

wipu · 2011-08-17 07:49:55 4
Print repeating CSV values on new lines - normalize repeating fields

Lets say you have a file with the following layout: LINUX,DIR,FILE1,FILE2,FILE3 You want the file to look like this: LINUX,DIR,FILE1 LINUX,DIR,FILE2 LINUX,DIR,FILE3 This perl command does it for you. Show Sample Output
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```
LINUX,DIR,FILE1
LINUX,DIR,FILE2
LINUX,DIR,FILE3
```
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echo "LINUX,DIR,FILE1,FILE2,FILE3" | perl -aF, -nle 'my ($fld1, $fld2, @fields) = @F; while(@fields) { print join ",", $fld1, $fld2, splice(@fields, 0, 1) }'

mindrape · 2011-08-22 18:27:12 4
Pipe stdout to image and mail

sudo /sbin/ifconfig | gotxt2imgmail you@example.com
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gotxt2imgmail() { if [ $# != 1 ]; then echo 'gotxt2imgmail < email >'; return; fi; e="$1"; f=$RANDOM.png; convert label:@- $f; echo "" | mailx -s $f -a $f $e }

meathive · 2011-08-24 12:05:05 3
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defragment files

Thanks to flatcap for optimizing this command. This command takes advantage of the ext4 filesystem's resistance to fragmentation. By using this command, files that were previously fragmented will be copied / deleted / pasted essentially giving the filesystem another chance at saving the file contiguously. ( unlike FAT / NTFS, the *nix filesystem always try to save a file without fragmenting it ) My command only effects the home directory and only those files with your R/W (read / write ) permissions. There are two issues with this command: 1. it really won't help, it works, but linux doesn't suffer much (if any ) fragmentation and even fragmented files have fast I/O 2. it doesn't discriminate between fragmented and non-fragmented files, so a large ~/ directory with no fragments will take almost as long as an equally sized fragmented ~/ directory The benefits i managed to work into the command: 1. it only defragments files under 16mb, because a large file with fragments isn't as noticeable as a small file that's fragmented, and copy/ delete/ paste of large files would take too long 2. it gives a nice countdown in the terminal so you know how far how much progress is being made and just like other defragmenters you can stop at any time ( use ctrl+c ) 3. fast! i can defrag my ~/ directory in 11 seconds thanks to the ramdrive powering the command's temporary storage bottom line: 1. its only an experiment, safe ( i've used it several times for testing ), but probably not very effective ( unless you somehow have a fragmentation problem on linux ). might be a placebo for recent windows converts looking for a defrag utility on linux and won't accept no for an answer 2. it's my first commandlinefu command

rename all jpg files with a prefix and a counter

Tells which group you DON'T belong to (opposite of command "groups") --- uses sed

special thanks to XwZ :)

Virtual Console lock program

vlock command locks the current console by default. Also you can lock all the consoles on the server by using -a parameter. For details, pl man vlock. ps: Generally speaking , system will not install vlock programme . So you should use ' $ sudo apt-get install vlock ' to install vlock .

Find all files containing a word

This command will find all files recursively containing the phrase entered, represented here by "searchphrase". This particular command searches in all php files, but you could change that to just be html files or just log files etc.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

To get internet connection information .

To get the connection information of protocol tcp and extended infortmation.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

cd up a number of levels

Instead of typing "cd ../../.." you can type ".. 3". For extremely lazy typists, you can add this alias: alias ...=".. 2" ....=".. 3" - so now you can write just .... !!! NB the .. function needs to be "source"d or included in your startup scripts, perhaps .bashrc.

Limit bandwidth usage by any program

Trickle is a voluntary, cooperative bandwidth shaper. it works entirely in userland and is very easy to use. The most simple application is to limit the bandwidth usage of programs.

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