Commands using grep

Group membership in OS X is a mish-mash of standards that end up meaning there's almost a half-dozen of ways to belong to a group, what with group inheritance and automatic assignment. This means there's no easy command to find out all groups a user belongs to. The only sensible way then is to list all users and then query each user for membership.

NOTE: This is a function. Once input you can execute it by calling with a groupname.

Per country GET report, based on access log. Easy to transform to unique IP

This is a little trickier than finding the last Sunday, because you know the last Sunday is in the first position of the last line. The trick is to use the NF less than or equal to 7 so it picks up all the lines then grep out any empty lines.

Watches the headers of a curl, following any redirects and printing only the HTTP status and the location of the possible redirects.

Remove all zero size files from current directory. Its a not recursive option like:

find . -size 0c -exec rm {} \;

I used to use the Firefox "View page info" feature a lot to determine how stale the web page I was looking at was. Now that I use mostly Chrome I miss that feature, so here is a command line alternative using wget. The -S says to display the server response, the --spider says to not download any files/pages, just fetch the header. The output goes to stderr, so to grep it you use 2>&1 to combine the stderr stream with stdout, the pipe that to grep for Last-Modified.

You can use curl instead if you have it installed, like this:

Put this in your bash startup script so you can quickly remember the top rated commands on CommandLineFu's website. Put it in .bashrc on Linux, or .bash_profile on OSX.

When you 'ps|grep' for a given process, it turns out that grep itself appears as a valid line since it contains the RE/name you are looking for. To avoid grep from showing itself, simply insert some wildcard into process' name.

Written for Mac OSX. When you are working in a project and want to open it on Github.com, just type "gh" and your default browser will open with the repo you are in. Works for submodules, and repo's that you don't own.

You'll need to copy / paste this command into a gh.sh file, then create an alias in your bash or zsh profile to the gh.sh script. Detailed instructions here if you still need help:

http://gist.github.com/1917716

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Sometimes cache-files or garbage gets added to your SVN repository. This is the way I normally clean up those when the actual files are already gone.

List background jobs, grep their number - not process id - and then kill them

proc lister

usage: p

proc killer

usage: p patt [signal]

uses only ps, grep, sed, printf and kill

no need for pgrep/pkill (not part of early UNIX)

_p(){

ps ax \

|grep $1 \

|sed '

/grep.'"$1"'/d' \

|while read a;do

printf ${a%% *}' ';

printf "${a#* }" >&2;

printf '\n';

done;

}

p(){

case $# in

0)

ps ax |grep .|less -iE;

;;

1)

_p $1;

;;

[23])

_p $1 2>/dev/null \

|sed '/'"$2"'/!d;

s,.*,kill -'"${3-15}"' &,'|sh -v

;;

esac;

}

alas, can't get this under 255 chars.

flatcap?

proc lister

usage: p

proc killer

usage: p patt [signal]

uses only ps, grep, sed, printf and kill

no need for pgrep/pkill (not part of early UNIX)

_p(){

ps ax \

|grep $1 \

|sed '

/grep.'"$1"'/d' \

|while read a;do

printf ${a%% *}' ';

printf "${a#* }" >&2;

printf '\n';

done;

}

p(){

case $# in

0)

ps ax |grep .|less -iE;

;;

1)

_p $1;

;;

[23])

_p $1 2>/dev/null \

|sed '/'"$2"'/!d;

s,.*,kill -'"${3-15}"' &,'|sh -v

;;

esac;

}

alas, can't get this under 255 chars.

flatcap?

Emulate (more or less) Git equivalent of

This command find which of your zip (or jar) files (when you have lots of them) contains a file you're searching for. It's useful when you have a lot of zip (or jar) files and need to know in which of them the file is archived.

It's most common with .jar files when you have to know which of the .jar files contains the java class you need.

To find in jar files, you must change "zip" to "jar" in the "find" command. The [internal file name] must be changed to the file name you're searching that is archived into one of the zip/jar files.

Before run this command you must step into the directory that contains the zip or jar files.

The script gets the dimensions and position of a window and calls ffmpeg to record audio and video of that window. It saves it to a file named output.mkv

Helps to fix permissions when a user clobbers them in their home directory or elsewhere. Does not rely on file extension, but uses the `file` command for context.

* grep -i leaves only mp3 files (case insentitive)

* sort -R randomizes list (may use GNU 'shuf' instead).

* the sed command will add double quotes around each filename (needed if odd characters are present)