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Linux: find names non non-virtual network interfaces

This is used to find externally accessible network interfaces; interfaces that others can connect to us with. By then finding the IP address of these interfaces, we can find addresses that other hosts would use in order to connect to us. Show Sample Output
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```
localhost core # ls -l /sys/class/net/ | grep /devices/ | grep -v /virtual/ | awk '{print $9}'
ens32
```
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ls -l /sys/class/net/ | grep /devices/ | grep -v /virtual/ | awk '{print $9}'

marksheahan · 2015-02-26 18:46:07 8
Show first IPv4 address for an interface without CIDR mask

Given a network interface (eth0 in this example), find its ip address, without CIDR netmask. Show Sample Output
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```
localhost core # ip addr show dev eth0 | grep -E '\binet\b' | sed 's|.*inet $[^/]*$/.*|\1|' | head -n 1
192.168.128.197
```
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ip addr show dev eth0 | grep -E '\binet\b' | sed 's|.*inet $[^/]*$/.*|\1|' | head -n 1

marksheahan · 2015-02-26 19:07:10 8
Kill google chrome process

Kills all browser tabs, without killing browser or extensions.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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kill $(ps x | grep '\/chrome *.* --type=renderer ' | awk '{print $1}')

karma0 · 2015-03-01 16:28:14 8
Get unique list of files that I've committed directly to the current branch
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git log --author="$(git config user.name)" --pretty=format: --name-only --date=iso --no-merges develop.. | grep '.' | sort | uniq

bradym · 2015-03-05 23:22:54 8
Show which programs are listening on TCP ports
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netstat -tapn|grep LISTEN

nitrogear · 2015-03-09 21:20:09 8
Kill all salt running processes
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ps aux | grep salt | awk '{ print $2}' | xargs kill

mour · 2015-03-12 09:27:14 9
Find IPv4 addresses in files from current directory
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grep -R '[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}' *

nitrogear · 2015-03-12 15:30:12 8
Get name of running Window Manager
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wmctrl -m | grep Name: | awk '{print $2}'

naesk · 2015-03-13 18:28:12 9
Know status of Caps, Num and Scroll Lock on Netbook w/o Leds

The command lets you know the status of the Caps, Num and Scroll Lock in the terminal. This is useful when the Netbook has no LED indicators Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
black @ blacksimon ? ~ $ xset -q | grep -e Caps
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock: off
```
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xset -q | grep -e Caps

Blacksimon · 2015-03-14 18:40:51 8
search "<keyword>" <file>

Add this to your bash profile, then quickly & easily (regex) search for and highlight keywords, with full text output.
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function search() { cat ${@:1} | grep --color=always -E "$1|$" }

miscreant · 2015-03-18 18:34:11 40
Keyboard Macros

Show Sample Output
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```
$ <control> + x + ( # start
$ [type your commands]
.
.
$ <control> + x + ) # stop
$ <control> + x + e # Run macro
```
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man bash | grep -A 9 "Keyboard Macros"

Tiosam · 2015-03-20 17:14:54 9
Ping your gateway at home

I run into regular problems whereby my cable modem from my ISP will simply stop working. To ensure that it is a problem with my cable modem (and not the router in-between my machine and the cable modem), I needed a quick way to test to someplace beyond the cable modem. The place shouldn't be beyond the cable network though. As such, I needed to determine the gateway to which my cable modem was connected. Since my router cannot do this on it's own... I created a single line command that will ping the gateway IP address based upon knowing that my gateway will be my second hop (after my wifi router), tracerouting for 2 hops, pulling the last line of the traceroute output and grep'ing for just the IP address. To stop pinging, use . This works on linux and osx and, with the addition of cygwin tools or the win-gnu project... should work on windows as well. Show Sample Output
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```
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 2 hops max, 52 byte packets
PING #.#.#.# (#.#.#.#): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from #.#.#.#: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=11.282 ms
64 bytes from #.#.#.#: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=11.902 ms
64 bytes from #.#.#.#: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=9.519 ms
```
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ping `traceroute -m 2 8.8.8.8 |tail -1|grep -E -o "([0-9]{1,3}[\.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}"`

andrewgearhart · 2015-03-25 19:55:54 74
Check the destination of a shortened URL without opening it

This oneliner will check the target location of any shortened URL, showing all the redirections inbetween. It's useful for getting the unshortened URL without opening the short link in the browser, and it also performs a HEAD request instead of a GET for more speed and a bit more privacy. Show Sample Output
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```
Location: https://youtu.be/vw5uScet3A8
Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5uScet3A8&feature=youtu.be
```
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curl -sIL http://bit.ly/1aalcwX | grep 'Location: '

EntornoIngrafico · 2015-03-30 11:06:18 8
Scan all available IP addresses on network
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nmap -sP $(ip -o addr show | grep inet\ | grep eth | cut -d\ -f 7)

richihiatus · 2015-04-03 21:29:59 9
Get magnet link from URL
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curl -s http://host.net/url.html | grep magnet | sed -r 's/.*(magnet:[^"]*).*/\1/g'

alikhalil · 2015-04-05 08:43:01 10
Turn monitor on or off if off or on, respectively

Queries whether the monitor is on according to DPMS. If true then turns the monitor off, if false turns it on. The -display option on xset means the command will work from sessions other than the console, such as ssh or a cron'd script. Command should display any errors if there are any problems (eg no X available), otherwise no output if successful.
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xset -display :0 q | grep ' Monitor is On' > /dev/null && xset -display :0 dpms force off || xset -display :0 dpms force on

electrotux · 2015-04-06 19:04:04 11
list all files or directories consuming 1Mb or more

thanks to GREP_COLOR the output will highlite the first 4 digits. if all files are few MB only, this gives a quick overview of how many powers of 10 bigger than 1MB they really are, a logarithmic scale. same works if files are more than 1GB when you replace the "4" by a "7", I usually use "5" in order to manually decide what files to delete...
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du -sc .[!.]* * |grep '^[0-9]{4}'

gander · 2015-04-24 10:51:13 10
Duplex PDF from a simplex scanner

Rearrange pdf document coming from a simplex document feed scanner, feeded first with odd pages, then with even pages from the end. Needs pdftk >1.44 w/ shuffle. Similar to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7965/pdf-simplex-to-duplex-merge where there are 2 separate documents, odd and even
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input=a.pdf ; pages=`pdftk $input dump_data | grep -i numberofpages | cut -d" " -f 2`; pdftk A=$input shuffle A1-$[$pages/2] A$pages-$[$pages/2+1] output "${input%.*}.rearranged.${input##*.}"

kobayashison · 2015-04-26 20:05:20 12
Search for a key word in a large list of files and save the results to a file on the desktop

This is great if you decide to change the name of a variable in multiple .java scripts and want to see a list of where it is used. Once in a text file you can easily sort the info by using find and replace to add /n to every ./ it finds to read your results more clearly. Note: grep will search the current directory. -r stands for recursive which will tell grep to search all directories and subdirectories.
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grep -r "word" >> "~/Desktop/filename.txt"

hobopowers · 2015-05-06 12:49:53 9
Grep ip addresses from access attempts to a page and add them to an ipset referenced by an iptables rule
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grep page.php /var/log/httpd/access_log|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq|perl -e 'while (<STDIN>){chomp; $cmd=`ipset add banned -! -q $_`; }'

luchino7773 · 2015-05-13 07:08:59 10
Display how much memory installed on system

This will display the system memory size in kb. If you want to see the value in mb, you can type: grep MemTotal: /proc/meminfo | awk '{printf("MemTotal: %d MB\n",$2/1024)}' Show Sample Output
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```
$ grep MemTotal: /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       16385508 kB
```
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grep MemTotal: /proc/meminfo # display how much memory installed

mpb · 2015-05-15 09:19:02 17
get name of file that is currently playing in mplayer (if there)

grep -v '$/dev/\|pipe:\|socket:$' seemingly looks a bit complicated. This can, of course, be replaced by head -1. However, it is not sure whether the filename line will be first on all systems, so I chose the safer way by filtering out what is not needed here. Show Sample Output
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```
now playing: your fav artist - your fav track.mp3
now playing: your fav movie.mpeg
no track/video playing
```
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media="$(basename "$(readlink /proc/$(pidof mplayer)/fd/* | grep -v '$/dev/\|pipe:\|socket:$')")" && ((test -n "$media" && echo "now playing: $media") || echo "no track/video playing")

syntaxerror74 · 2015-06-06 13:15:15 9
Calculate Duration Of Files In Directory

When you want to know the duration of all your mp3 files in the current working directory this command will tell you based on exif data. Since it relies on exif data it can be used against other files like movies, ogg vorbis etc. also. Useful when you want to know how long it will take to listen to an album or series of lectures. Show Sample Output
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```
3:15:29
```
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exiftool * | grep '^Duration' | sed 's/^.*[[:space:]]$[0-9]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*$.*$/\1/g' | awk -F':' '{ H+=$1;M+=$2;S+=$3 } END { printf "%d:%d:%d\n", int(H+int(M/60)),int(M+S/60)%60,S%60 }'

keyboardsage · 2015-06-17 06:20:47 9
Use grep and aspell to help find crossword answers

You have a clue... 5 Down: You're looking at it (8) You have some letters... C--SS-O-- You use the terminal... Show Sample Output
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```
classroom
classwork
crossbows
crossroad
crosstown
crossword
```
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grep -i "^c..ss.o..$" <(aspell dump master)

cwmwd24 · 2015-06-24 12:51:00 11
extract ip address from ifconfig using

merge ifconfig grep awk sed you need to change the interface of ifconfig where ip is up Show Sample Output
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```
                 <--------=   IP    =-------->
```
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ifconfig wlan0 | grep "inet addr:" | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/.*:/\n\n\n/g' | sed 's/$[0-9]\{1,3\}\.$\{3\}[0-9]\{1,3\}/\t\t\t<--------= & =-------->\n\n\n\n\n/g'

lb · 2015-07-13 05:37:31 9
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Benchmark SQL Query

Benchmark a SQL query against MySQL Server. The example runs the query 10 times, and you get the average runtime in the output. To ensure that the query does not get cached, use `RESET QUERY CACHE;` on top in the query file.

Find last modified files in a directory and its subdirectories

Goes through all files in the directory specified, uses `stat` to print out last modification time, then sorts numerically in reverse, then uses cut to remove the modified epoch timestamp and finally head to only output the last 10 modified files. Note that on a Mac `stat` won't work like this, you'll need to use either: $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f '%m%t%Sm %12z %N' | sort -nr | cut -f2- | head or alternatively do a `brew install coreutils` and then replace `stat` with `gstat` in the original command.

Connect to TCP port 5000, transfer data and close connexion.

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Easy and fast access to often executed commands that are very long and complex.

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Show changed files, ignoring permission, date and whitespace changes

Only shows files with actual changes to text (excluding whitespace). Useful if you've messed up permissions or transferred in files from windows or something like that, so that you can get a list of changed files, and clean up the rest.

statistics in one line

In this example, file contains five columns where first column is text. Variance is calculated for columns 2 - 5 by using perl module Statistics::Descriptive. There are many more statistical functions available in the module.

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